It's exactly one year to the day since the launch of Staff Room, the subscription-funded part of the world's largest ELT website, onestopenglish which has more than 400,000 registrants. Most of the subscribers are teachers of English as a foreign or second language and they come from every part of the world with Germany and Mexico leading the way. The testimonials for the service are glowing and, unlike many web propositions, people are willing to pay for the content. But the Staff Room is just the most recent development of onestopenglish which was launched in May 2001.

Here is the birthday cake in the real world.

For a flavour of onestop try this trailer to The Road Less Travelled, a soap opera for learners of English. Whatever next?

You may remember a post about the scifoo camp at the beginning of August. There were many distinguished participants from the world of science but here is evidence that it wasn't just a bunch of nerds. The guy on the left is Phil Campbell, the editor-in-chief of Nature. Next to him his personal adviser on home improvements.

And here's a link for lovers of nature and the underdog.