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Cash4Access Dot Com – Get up close and personal with your favourite Conservative politicians http://www.cash4access.com/ #rofl
Cash4Access.com – Get up close and personal with your favourite Conservative politicians.. HT @richardloxley Well I thought it was fun…
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Geek Must-Watch: @Lessig on “Recognising the Fight We’re In” – Closing Keynote from #ORGcon 2012
Lawrence Lessig’s closing keynote from ORGcon 2012, touching dozens, scores of issues that are relevant to the Open Rights Group, to digital rights activists, to ordinary users now and in the future. I don’t agree with quite all of it, but it is all quite thought-provoking. Recognizing the Fight We’re In from lessig on Vimeo.…
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2011: lovely warm early spring, dry-but-grey-summer, mediocre autumn. Same again?
I distinctly remember spending most of last summer thinking “where did all the nice weather we had in April go?” – am beginning to wonder if it will be the same again.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-03-26
@GuardianJoanna You're still at it? Oh, yes, "Weekend". My voice post-#orgcon seems to have dropped an octave. #jamesearljones # @DrJennyWoods snap # @DrJennyWoods CrashTestDummies FTW http://t.co/LSTbRrEu # happiness is a warm #recumbent http://t.co/FRlyOSpK # : Miscellaneous #ORGcon photos … http://t.co/4oFZp37K # @harrym epic 🙂 # : Hartley Wintney now has room for more dead people…
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How (not) to communicate new scientific information HT @jimfinnis #WileyOnline #Epic
At this point, I, and I believe everyone else in the room, was agog. I could scarcely believe what was occurring on stage. But Prof. Brindley was not satisfied. He looked down sceptically at his pants and shook his head with dismay. ‘Unfortunately, this doesn’t display the results clearly enough’. via How (not) to communicate…
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Hartley Wintney now has room for more dead people #yourenotfromroundtheseparts
Explains a lot about the village. [Graveyard] Extension is blessed (From Basingstoke Gazette).
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Miscellaneous #ORGcon photos …
Mostly from registration, and/or the pizza party afterwards…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-03-25
@karmel80 Good meeting you earlier; as promised, the ORG London Meetup group http://t.co/G73XTdP6 – please join in! # And as if by magic it's 2am… #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-03-24
@shortblue There are some folk for whom it is true. Typically they are gamers. So there's a selection bias, but I agree with Bartle. # @shortblue Excellent – I will try and bring one or two others along to help explain. # Reminder: You should attend #ORGcon Westminster, Sat 24th March http://t.co/N0ZIf1jE ie: #TOMORROW in…
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Michael Bloomberg (@mikebloomberg) proves he can do elementary maths
Michael Bloomberg has dedicated $220 million to the fight against tobacco, making a total of $600 million in his lifetime; to the BBC’s “World At One” he made the following point: About half of the world’s smokers are in Russia, China, India, Bangladesh and Indonesia. (39m mark) I heard that and thought: Let’s add that…
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Pub conversation …
How much is the [beer name]? 2.8% Yes, but how much? 2.8% Thanks. I’ll be back. [exit pub and go somewhere else]
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Millions of #Barclays card users exposed to #fraud – #contactless #pickpockets # HT @bensummers
Card readers that are now being built in as standard to mobile phones can be adapted to access data from these cards. Working with a mobile phone security company, Channel 4 News managed to take data with just one swipe, and then use that data to purchase multiple goods online. This means that it would…