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Relative Milibands on Twitter
You can’t make this shit up – I found this a few days ago when searching Twitter having seen Ed at Gatwick Airport:
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Doesn’t anyone else find it odd that the Met can describe covert operation sex as “almost inevitable”? It’s not the sex aspect…
It’s not the sex aspect, it’s the number of undercover police operations which make me wonder that it is possible to bandy terms like “inevitable”. Met police boss: Covert relations ‘almost inevitable’ Bernard Hogan-Howe said such relations should not form the strategy Some undercover police will “almost inevitably” have sexual relationships with members of groups…
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Using Google Image Search to prick and deflate the #DailyMail’s obsession with Diana / Kate stories
Step 1: Find weird Daily Mail Kate looks just like Diana story: (link) Step 2: Note the weird selective image cropping and fabric drape. Step 3: Note the weirder framing text: But it was the combination of the new haircut and the retro silk green dress that brought to mind a more significant likeness: that…
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Were you hacking on X.25 JANET prior to the introduction of the Computer Misuse Act 1990?
There was a big and friendly (and incestuous) scene back in the 80s; we had public access accounts – and some less-than-legitimate ones, too – and hung out on bulletin boards, muds (CALL 00004960000001, anyone?) and occasional unguarded PSS gateways <cough>. So gradually I’ve been building up a list of who-was-who; funniest one was a…
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They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com
HT @adriana872 We know the rules and statistics of English: which words go together, which sounds the language employs, and which pairs of letters appear most often. (Q is usually followed by a u, for example, and “quiet” is rarely followed by “bulldozer.”) There are only so many translation schemes that will work with these…
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AberMUD in 1989
A colleague just questioned what the earliest citation you could find for yourself on the extant net, is. I am not certain that this is the oldest, but it is pretty old – and it’s amusing to see what no longer gets recognised as an e-mail address and so obscured: Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple! brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!skat.usc.edu!acliu From: ac…@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro…
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Moukie
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The slurs on McAlpine were quickly retracted – but # god forbid that libel payouts become rational
McAlpine is giving some of the smaller tweet offenders’ money to charity, his lawyer says. Good. Yet how, in the real world, do you balance a vile accusation quickly disproven against an injury (from mugging, perhaps) that can never be healed or forgotten? Look up the criminal injuries compensation tariff for serious brain damage "with…
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The Energy Generated from A Single Orange: A Citric Acid Battery by Caleb Charland | Colossal
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/11/the-energy-generated-from-a-single-orange/ Whoa….. Via @JimFinnis
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Hipster? Cyclist? Shoreditch? Faintly ‘county’? You’ll want #Trotify # Wonder if they’ll do a Boris Bike adapter?
Via BoingBoing: Geared coconut clomper makes your bike sound like a horsie from Monty Python and the Holy Grail Trotify …for the ones who won’t lower themselves to Etsy feather jewellery.
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Microsoft has failed | SemiAccurate # compelling and plausible from my experience
It’s a week old and for some reason cut-and-paste is not working on the article, but it makes a compelling case. HT @adriana872 and @mjj122 Microsoft has failed | SemiAccurate. The problem is that if you are locked in with a choice of 100% Microsoft or 0% Microsoft, once someone goes, it isn’t a baby…
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Shit Just Got Real