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BBC News – More piracy sites faced with blocking as BPI contacts UK ISPs HT @openrightsgroup
The UK’s major internet service providers have been asked to block three more file-sharing websites, the BBC can reveal. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which acts on behalf of rights holders, wants ISPs to prevent access to Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents. The BPI alleges that the sites are illegally distributing music. The ISPs told…
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We are ready: Bringing Somalia’s recovery online # and the UK Government worries about “digital divides”
It could be worse… Unlike Somalia’s thriving telecoms sector, where two decades of lawlessness, lack of regulation, and cut-throat competition for an increasingly mobile market have driven services up and prices to rock bottom (less than one cent per minute), internet in Mogadishu has been archaic. Dial-up is the cheapest option, at around USD$30 a…
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BBC News – Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle – #really ?
OK, maybe this is real, I dunno, but tell me that it doesn’t sound like one of those implausible WWII cover-stories for some other third-party intelligence-gathering mechanism. About 620 miles from Somalia, with no means of phone or radio communication, they placed a message in a bottle and threw it out through a porthole into…
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The maths that made Voyager possible #MUSTREAD #MUSTTV
This is where I will be tomorrow evening – I shall warm up the television and actually bother watching something live for once. This is what makes us human. Shame we don’t do more of it, but props to Felix for having a good stab at it. Although still lacking funding to extend its mission…
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CoE Weddings: You can’t be gay but you can be nouveau-riche chavs /ht @Theosthinktank
From the babysnipping supporters at Theos we learn: The Church of England has set out radical plans to transform the way in which it conducts weddings. A package of reforms will modernise the marriage service, offering couples the chance to replace traditional aspects with personalised touches. It will give the go-ahead for glitzy “Posh and…
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ASTRONOMY IN THE PUB – #AstroPub /ht @jimanning @gammidgy #puballthethings #sitp
Presumably Reading will be first? http://astropub.co.uk/about.php PUB ALL THE THINGS!
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In mug, 2tsp pure cocoa, 2tsp caramel syrup, Angostura bitters, fresh-ground black pepper. Add frothed hot milk.
Very good hot chocolate. BLend the other ingredients into a paste and add milk gradually. Adjust measures to taste.
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Shami Chakrabarti on #Marr covers Phone-Sucking, #CCDP & #SnoopersCharter in the paper review
On iPlayer, sorry; no apparent way to embed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01nm3th/?t=15m57s HT: @DrJennyWoods
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Top Facebook executive Joanna Shields resigns to head up London’s Tech City – Telegraph
Oh dear, the pols are trying to herd the cats. Top Facebook executive Joanna Shields resigns to head up London’s Tech City – Telegraph. Joanna Shields, one of Facebook’s most senior executives, is to quit the social media giant and join David Cameron’s project to create a competitor to California’s Silicon Valley in East London.…
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“Scottish” Voices, on Devolution and Independence, on Reddit
From Reddit: IAm Humza Yousaf MSP, Minister for External Affairs and International Development in the Scottish Government, AMA Hi, I’m Humza Yousaf and I’ll be here to answer your questions live from SNP Conference in Perth at 17:30 BST (12:30 ET). This afternoon will see First Minister Alex Salmond deliver his speech to conference from…
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Surprised at Antinous, moderator of #BoingBoing forums, coming down as pro-censorship
From this thread on Twitter censorship of German fascists, blocking only other Germans from seeing their Tweets: Quote: Navin_Johnson: Disgusting speech is best fought with more speech, not less. Antinous: We have more access to information about fascist groups than ever before and fascism is on the rise. Your statement is an optimistic meme and…