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Bramble Bank Cricket Match: The Strangest in the World | Amusing Planet
Why do I like the UK? This is why I like the UK. Click through for pictures. The Brambles sandbank in central Solent, midway between Southampton and the Isle of Wight, is a low-tide sandbank that appears only once each year during spring. The exposed bank never lasts more than an hour before the tide
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The obscure threat to the internet you need to know about – Index on Censorship
The obscure threat to the internet you need to know about As an arcane UN body seeks new relevance and campaigns to take over internet governance, Dominique Lazanski — a member of the UK WCIT-12 delegation — outlines the risks it poses to net freedom and free speech via The obscure threat to the internet
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BBC Westminster Hour Coverage of #CCDP / Theresa May in The Sun
In Sun tomorrow @tnewtondunn says Theresa May attacks Nick Clegg over his opposition to giving more powers to police to monitor internet use — Westminster Hour (@BBCWestminHour) December 2, 2012 player goes here part 1 player goes here part 2 (CCDP from 02:27)
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Bay Area Souvenir # From Before The Dot.COM Boom
Before Amazon, there was a place of homage:
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An Analysis of a Fake Vodafone Bill PDF File # fascinating PDF trojan #mustread
We haven’t come across many malicious PDF files recently in our spam traps, so when we found this message, ostensibly from Vodafone Deutschland, we naturally took a closer look. In this example, the cyber crooks are targeting Vodafone Deutschland customers by spamming a fake billing statement. The message claims to be from Vodafone-OnlineRechnung@vodafone.com. The spam
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Music industry group BPI demands pirate proxy closure # Just wait until they find out about #torproject and duplicate trackers
The UK’s music industry body is demanding that a service offering a workaround to access banned site The Pirate Bay is shut down by its owner. Pirate Party UK, a political group, has set up a proxy that can be used to reach the piracy site even though it has been blocked by the UK
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Sometimes the NHS does work as advertised
So sometime on my recent trip I must have wrenched a shoulder muscle; I didn’t notice it happen but the effects came on while sleeping, immensely painful and generally waking me up about 4am each morning until the muscle spasms subsided. It started on friday, peaked on sunday and is now tailing off but is
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VIM Adventures: an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts
What is VIM Adventures? VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts (commands, motions and operators). It’s the “Zelda meets text editing” game. It’s a puzzle game for practicing and memorizing VIM commands (good old VI is also covered, of course). It’s an easy way to learn VIM without a steep learning