How do you fancy a credit card (14.9% APR) which doubles as an Oyster card? Or maybe it's an Oyster card that doubles as a credit card. Barclays are hoping that their new OnePulse card will attract Londoners who prefer swiping to small change. Me, I plan to be the very last person to get one.
In PR Monkey Corner (a special feature devoted to professional "new media" pluggers) I'd like to say hello to three people who emailed me recently. Good luck with the comedy wiki you're working on, Leah. I'm sure lots of people will come to your alcoholic London event, John. And I hope your local services website lifts off, John. And my apologies that I can't be arsed to link to any of you.
You lot, you're so shallow. On Wednesday I posted a fake link to a Diamond Geezer Readers Network on Facebook. More than 200 of you clicked to take a look. That's more clicks than any other link I've posted in the last five months. Maybe you were all after a new Facebook friend. Maybe you wanted to find out more about me. Or maybe you were just repeatedly clicking because the link didn't seem to work. Whatever. I think I've outed a large proportion of you as Facebook addicts.
Why wait until 2012? The UK's very own official Olympic Games kicks off today! That's the Wenlock Olympian Games, in Much Wenlock in Shropshire, which is famous as the town where the modern Olympics were first revived in 1850 by Dr William Penny Brookes. Honest. Over the next few days many of Much Wenlock's 3000 residents will be taking part in such thrilling Olympian sports as Bowls, Fencing, Golf, Clay Pigeon Shooting and Veteran Cycling. I shan't be attending, but I might be interested in walking their historic Olympian Trail some time in the next five years.