The Council on Tall Buildings is located in Lehigh, Pennsylvania. I like that. The world's tallest building, the TFC 101 in Taipei will open on 31 December, over 50 metres taller than the Petronas Towers, with the fastest elevators in the world - ground to level 101 in 30 seconds, at a speed of 60km/h. Meanwhile, that of 45 Fifth Avenue takes the title of world's slowest elevator, travelling 17 floors in 42 seconds.
Ben has oft talked about the physical inability of a single linesman to accurately police the offside rule in football (to the Americans out there, I mean football). This is due to his (or indeed her) inability to look simultaneously back down the field at the moment the ball is passed and directly across the field to see whether the player is off side. Now doctors have caught up with the prodigy that is my brother.
Meanwhile, the B52s' (the BBC put an apostrophe in this, but I'm not keen on the gratuitous apostrophisation of nouns ending in a number) love shack has burnt down, prompting what is undoubtedly the BBC's best use of its CMS's callout functionality.
