The return of 'Icons of Englishness'.
I had a mini-rant about this a while back, but feel I need to return to it as it now being reported on in Le Monde. It headlines the bowler hat and a pint of beer as among those voted for as icons of Englishness. Flip this around and imagine how we would all snigger at the French if they had nominated the baguette and the beret for themselves, or the Germans bratwurst and lederhosen etc etc.
Frankly I'm embarassed, but felt I ought to trawl around Icons site to see what I could discover. And wearing protective footwear so that toe curling doesn't get to the point of bone snapping.
So, snagged from their site:
Who they are:
ICONS Online is a not-for-profit organisation set up to develop projects like this one. It is being incubated by pioneering new media company Cognitive Applications. The project is supported by an Advisory board and commissioned by Culture Online, a part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
How much will it cost?
The budget assigned to the project is £1 million. This will cover all of the costs involved in developing the site, marketing it and providing service. This funding lasts until February 2007, but the site will remain live indefinitely, and we plan to generate sponsorship and other forms of revenue to allow it to continue to grow indefinitely.
What a great use of taxpayer money, eh? This absurd, and wholly unnecessary list needed 13 people on the payroll, plus additional freelancers. I imagine that most of us would have been prepared to cook up a list with our mates for the price of a night in the pub, and any of those lists would have been at least as valid as this heap of hooey. However, I did enjoy seeing Alice in Wonderland rendered as 'Alice au pays des merveilles'.
I had a mini-rant about this a while back, but feel I need to return to it as it now being reported on in Le Monde. It headlines the bowler hat and a pint of beer as among those voted for as icons of Englishness. Flip this around and imagine how we would all snigger at the French if they had nominated the baguette and the beret for themselves, or the Germans bratwurst and lederhosen etc etc.
Frankly I'm embarassed, but felt I ought to trawl around Icons site to see what I could discover. And wearing protective footwear so that toe curling doesn't get to the point of bone snapping.
So, snagged from their site:
Who they are:
ICONS Online is a not-for-profit organisation set up to develop projects like this one. It is being incubated by pioneering new media company Cognitive Applications. The project is supported by an Advisory board and commissioned by Culture Online, a part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
How much will it cost?
The budget assigned to the project is £1 million. This will cover all of the costs involved in developing the site, marketing it and providing service. This funding lasts until February 2007, but the site will remain live indefinitely, and we plan to generate sponsorship and other forms of revenue to allow it to continue to grow indefinitely.
What a great use of taxpayer money, eh? This absurd, and wholly unnecessary list needed 13 people on the payroll, plus additional freelancers. I imagine that most of us would have been prepared to cook up a list with our mates for the price of a night in the pub, and any of those lists would have been at least as valid as this heap of hooey. However, I did enjoy seeing Alice in Wonderland rendered as 'Alice au pays des merveilles'.
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office,maybe £20,000 per annum,technical costs maybe £20,000.that still leaves
£960,000 for pissing up the wall.
between 13 people!!!!!!!!!
Rigger - sounds like a good gig, doesn't it?
PCF - Take it away.....
decent breakfasts that do more than scratch the surface
our car industry
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