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Orwell's Kindle e-Books Get "Big Brothered"

· 20 Jul '09 ·
On Friday morning, owners of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader (only available in the US at the moment) woke up to discover Amazon had effectively walked into their living rooms, picked up their copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from the coffee table and left a cheque to the value of the books in their place. It would appear an ...
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Britain Has More Violent Crime Than South Africa

· 07 Jul '09 ·
Britain Has More Violent Crime Than South AfricaSomeone once told me that South Africa was the most violent and unsafe place in the world to live. Well, a recent report in the Daily Mail would indicate it's not nearly as bad is good ol' Blighty. Now this is the Daily Mail, known for a fair amount of sensationalism and fact selection, so we should take this article ...
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Attention Span of a Gnat

· 06 Apr '09 ·
Following on from news of UK government plans to change the primary school curriculum from the traditional subjects (maths, science, biology etc) to six broad areas of learning which includes things like learning about Twitter and using Wikipedia (is this really a good idea?), comes this great article about the inarticulate kids we're likely to get from this proposal. I ...
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Hedge Funds Bitten By Their Own Greed

· 30 Oct '08 ·
Last week Volkswagen weren't having much of a good time: their shares were down more than 50% and the hedge fund vultures were circling as they started to bet heavily that the VW shares would fall. To make a bit of money off this, they short sold the equivalent of 13% of the VW shares with the intention of buying ...
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CERN Destroys Planet Earth

· 10 Sep '08 ·
"CERN Destroys Planet Earth" may be the news plastered all over the front pages of the newspapers on Mars, Venus and possibly the moon (if it's not destroyed too) come at 8:31am BST this morning. If you've not been listening to the news, you'll have missed the news that CERN will be attempting to recreate the big bang, on a ...
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I'm In the Local Newspaper

· 04 Aug '08 ·
I'm In the Local NewspaperWoohooo!!! I'm a celeb. I'm in this week's Maidenhead Advertiser. Unlike all my previous appearances in newspapers, I've not done anything special other than just being in the right place at the right time. However I have been caught red handed going for the food: This was taken at a free "Movies in the Park" event in Maidenhead on Sunday ...
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Buried in a Pringles Tin

· 03 Jun '08 ·
Buried in a Pringles TinI think this is pretty cool: the designer of the Pringles tin - Fredric J. Baur - recently died and asked to be buried in the very thing he designed, the Pringles tin. I think that's quite fitting. I wonder if Sir James Dyson will have a similar request (I know, I have a very warped mind).
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News Title of The Year Goes Too...

· 10 May '08 ·
News Title of The Year Goes Too...The news title of the year must go to the BBC for this gem... If that's not enough, the first sentence is open to interpretation too... At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
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BAA/BA At LHR T5 Missing a Trick

· 02 Apr '08 ·
The entire world certainly knows about the shambles that has been the first week of London Heathrow Terminal 5. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled, and are still being cancelled and BAA/BA have a huge mountain of "lost" luggage to return to their rightful owners. They're coming up with some very creative ways of getting through the backlog, but I ...
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Britain's Earthquake

· 27 Feb '08 ·
Oh, it was so terrible, we weren't woken in the middle of the night, no pictures fell off the wall, no new cracks appeared and our chimney is still right where we left it. The aftermath of last night's earthquake is so terrible, I just don't know how we're going to cope ;-) . We didn't feel a thing.
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