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Holiday Inn hotel made of key cards is world’s first

Melbourne, Sep 18 (ANI): A Holiday Inn hotel made entirely of key cards has been unveiled in New York.

The 37-square-metre hotel, built by world record-holding Cardstacker Bryan Berg, is made from more than 200,000 key cards and weighs 1814 kilograms.

It includes a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, with life-sized furniture.

The design was created by Holiday Inn, the world’s largest hotel group, to mark the relaunch of 1200 of its hotels around the world.

“The Key Card Hotel is a fun and interactive way to showcase the changes happening at our hotels and is the only structure of its kind to ever be created by a hotel brand,” News.com.au quoted Kevin Kowalski, Senior Vice President, Global Brand Management, Holiday Inn, as saying.

Berg, who will also build a freestanding three-metre replica of New York’s Empire State Building in the lobby of the Key Card Hotel using Holiday Inn playing cards, said constructing the hotel has been a great challenge.

“This is my largest cardstacking challenge to date and the only card creation I have ever made at full human scale,” Berg added about the hotel.

The first 250 guests who attended the Key Card Hotel grand opening received a free night stay at any Holiday Inn.

The company’s 1 billion dollar relaunch is one of the largest in the history of the hospitality industry. (ANI)

Fromage frais future book wins odd title prize

London, Mar 27 (ANI): ‘The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais’, a book on the future of tiny pots of fromage frais, has scooped the prize for oddest book title of 2008.

The book by Professor Philip M Parker landed The Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year.

‘Baboon Metaphysics’ by Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M Seyfarth came in second place, and ‘Curbside Consultation of the Colon’ by Brooks D Cash in third.

The annual prize is run by the Bookseller magazine, reports The Telegraph.

Horace Bent, who runs the competition, said: “Given that three times in the 21st century the public have crowned somewhat vulgar titles the winner (High Performance Stiffened Structures, Living With Crazy Buttocks and, most recently, If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs), I assumed that either Strip And Knit With Style or Curbside Consultation Of The Colon would pick up the 2008 award.

“But I’m thrilled that the public steered clear of smut and bestowed the ‘odd title’ crown on Prof Parker’s worthy winner, and turned the supermarket chiller into the Petri dish of literary innovation.”

The competition organisers came up with a short list of six titles, which was then put to an Internet vote to find the winner.

Philip Stone, from the Bookseller, said the winner was a “fitting champion”.

He said: “What does the future hold for these items? Well, given that fromage frais normally comes in 60-gram containers, not 60-milligram, one would assume that the world outlook for 0.06-gram containers of fromage frais is pretty bleak. But I’m not willing to pay 795 pounds to find out.”

The other titles in the shortlist were Strip And Knit With Style by Mark Hordyszynski, which came fourth, The Large Sieve And Its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski in fifth and Techniques For Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang in sixth.

Bent added: “The fact that this book has been crowned the winner just goes to show how creative and diverse the publishing world is today. And, perhaps, how important a copy editor is.” (ANI)

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