links for 2009-12-07

Posted on 7 Dec 2009 in Daily Links (0 comments)

• Japan's hotels woo train spotters - BBC News
  Got a hotel room with a view of the railway tracks? Market it as "Room with a rail view"! Clever!
  (tags: Japan railways hotel)
• Amazon in secret plan to open high street shops - Times Online
  Not so secret now.
  (tags: Amazon retail shopping internet business)
• London Underground's Jubilee Line 'shut 28 more times' - BBC News
  For goodness sake, this is getting quite frankly STUPID now. You know in Paris they're doing major upgrade work on one Metro line and they haven't had a single line closure. It's time we started complaining. Big style. Because if the public made a noise, Tube Lines would HAVE to start taking notice. But instead people just tut and get on with it. FIGHT PEOPLE, FIGHT!
  (tags: London LondonUnderground TransportForLondon TubeLines tube JubileeLine publictransport)
• Demand for £50 notes 'fuelled by lack of faith in banks' - Telegraph
  I would have thought a demand for £50s would be more to do with wanting to have your wallet less stuffed myself! We seem to have this peculiar aversion to fifties in the UK, yet in other parts of the world you can go into a shop with equivalent to £100 in one note and people will barely bother.
  (tags: money BankOfEngland cash)
• BBC prepares for longest election night - guardian.co.uk
  To save cash, apparently many local councils won't count the ballot papers until Friday morning. Bigger question is why we have such an insane system anyway? Surely doing EVERYTHING (counting, changing prime minister etc) all on one night is ridiculous and a slower staged handover would be better for all?
  (tags: Election2010 BBC electionnight television televisionnews)