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The @NYTOnIt account is hilarious. Shame the Times can’t take a joke | Jeff Jarvis #dearieme
But Kabak made the apparent mistake of using an Old English “T” in the mock logo for his mock account, which he clearly labeled as mockery. So The Times claimed trademark violation and went whining to Twitter, which promptly suspended @NYTOnit, unleashing a flood of further mockery on Twitter, leading, after a long night, to
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Somehow I just made the most extraordinary hot chocolate…
…the kind that you dunk churros in, except better than that because that’s thickened with cornflour whereas this is cocoa solids. some people might not like that statement, but they don’t know what they are missing. approximate recipe: about 5 or 6 pieces of hasslacher’s hot chocolate – way more than the written recipe calls
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Install VNC to provide a graphical front-end to Ubuntu Server – Precise, Lucid, Karmic, Jaunty and Intrepid
Useful Administer Ubuntu Server 12.04 using VNC via Install VNC to provide a graphical front-end to Ubuntu Server – Precise, Lucid, Karmic, Jaunty and Intrepid.
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The Almost-Complete Mercury Music Prize Awards 1992-2012, as Spotify Playlists
I need to listen to more music – so as a project / proxy for doing actual research I decided to create playlists of the recent Mercury Music Prize winners with a little help from Wikipedia… and then decided to finish the job having started it. Albums which I could not find are annotated and
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Discovery of the Day: Phone Touchscreen + Alcohol Wipe = Better Performance
I try to keep my phone (Galaxy S2) as clean as I can but frankly the past few weeks it’s been getting pretty grubby, and no amount of microfibre-polishing the glass seems to stop it feeling slippery. Then this afternoon I used an iso-propanol screen wipe on it. Massive change. Greasy feel gone, slight finger-drag
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Nanny State: State Nanny David Cameron ‘orders new curbs on internet porn’ – Telegraph
If only there were an 14th-Amendment-alike Equal Protection clause in the UK, we could use this as an argument for state-provided free pornography. Alas. The new measures will mean that in future anyone buying a new computer or signing up with a new internet service provider (ISP) will be asked, when they log on for
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BBC News: Play about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing coincides with centenary celebrations # THIS
And I’ve met the playwright! Play about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing coincides with centenary celebrations. Alan Turing knew much more than many the truly harsh meaning of falling “from hero to zero”. A pioneer celebrated for deciphering the messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War Two, he was later
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Graham Williams reviewing the Windwrap WGX Fairing on an ICE Trike recumbent
Via ICE Trikes I found this blog post by Graham: …and it’s rather cool. He writes elsewhere about his recumbent tandem: March 2011, with the help of the BT benevolent fund I finally ordered A Greenspeed recumbent trike From Australia, Please see the link to their web site. The reason for such a change from
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Rich politically-connected man to sue anyone who discussed false gossip pertaining to him in a public forum
Step 1: Ask all the guilty parties to come forward and settle, it’ll go easier on them that way. Oh my, this story will run. It’s the Streisand antipattern.
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you will want the hypnotically voiced hexaflexagon soft tortilla with guacamole #MUSTWATCH
IT BE-GINS WITH A LARGE TOR-TILLA…
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G-Cloud and CloudStore: if you are a geek these words will not mean what you think they mean
http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/ Cloud computing has brought about a step change in the economics and sustainability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Government is committed to the adoption of cloud computing and delivering computing resources. The G-Cloud is an iterative programme of work to achieve this which will deliver fundamental changes in the way the public sector