This week, in the Pub Issue of Shift Control... "Some pretty scary things are happening to British pubs - apparently in the name of pleasing women. Rat and Parrot, Slug and Lettuce, All Bar One, Wetherspoons - they all signify the general white collarisation of the pub with blonde wood and windows where the cheap repro mahogany and frosted glass should be." - Kate Spicer wonders what's wrong with the good ol' local. "Some London pub crawls have their origins in history (the Jack the Ripper pub crawl) or literature (the Sherlock Holmes pub crawl), while others are just a desperate attempt to justify a booze-up (the Monopoly board pub crawl). But the greatest of all is the Circle Line pub crawl. It has no discernible beginning and no discernible end. All that's certain is that the Circle Line has 27 stations, and somewhere near the exit of each of these is a pub." - Paul Robinson takes on the ultimate pub challenge. "Nowadays even boozing and chatting have gone hi-tech. And while electric toothbrushes caught on and talking cars are here to stay, is there really any justification for the virtual pub?" - Rebecca Fox asks if online boozers have really lost the pub spirit. Plus the Shift Control quiz: How wild are you... about pubs? Shift Control: serving a full measure of delights, NOW, at http://www.shiftcontrol.com ___________________________________________________________ Shift Control is produced by the Guardian's New Media Lab with help from Boddingtons and Stella Artois Dry To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send e-mail to shiftcontrol-request@nml.guardian.co.uk with the following text in the body of the mail message: unsubscribe