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Another place to visit… Tunnel becomes Banksy art exhibit A disused road tunnel in south London has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Banksy. Murals in the Bristol artist’s famous stencil style appear with work by 29 other artists in a half-mile stretch of the tunnel in Leake Street, Waterloo. Images

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I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I was thinking it over and have come up with a list of my issues regarding a US movie adapation of Edge of Darkness – feel free to add to it in the comments: Bob Peck is Dead: OK, that’s a bit unfair, but the man did “grief” like nobody

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Dear Alex, I was drunk and bored, so I mowed your lawn. I hope you like it. Charlie (next door) …on a note in the letterbox when I got home. Tidy job too – clippings and everything.

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Damn; EoD is one of the best things ever made for television, and they are letting Hollywood at it. Specifically, they are letting Mel Gibson at it. Damn. And I’ll bet you that Darius Jedburgh is nothing like a fat, corrupt, CIA operative who obsesses over “Come Dancing”. It’ll probably be Keanu Reeves, hooked on

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All the good logos are gone, and most of the bad ones too. Heaven forbid the next step of people copyrighting “mission statements” – to do so would surely halt all internet innovation…

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The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content Consumer This should be mandatory usability testing for any platform; wonderful. (tags: design ubuntu usability)

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Quoth das Daily Mail: ‘That dress 2’! Eight years on, a new gown and Liz Hurley’s as stunning as ever Eight years, from 1994 to 2008? Ummm… Update: hey, they’ve now fixed their math. They can be taught!

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Fed up with the new Dilbert user interface? Use the Web version of the RSS frontend at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip instead…

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“Have you seen the privacy settings on the Facebook profile page? I swear, if you’re able to navigate your way those things, you could configure a fucking firewall. It’s insane!” — Pete Jenkins Facebook, instilling critical skills in the next generation of network engineers…

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“Perfect alignment”? To a moving target? BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Muslim call to adopt Mecca time Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when

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It’s a funny thing about mainstream media, they rant on about how they add value by fact checking, and then don’t actually do it; this leads to people like Alan Patrick being handed the wrong end of the stick: Open Source getting goosed – whats the SQL? – broadstuff Officials at Sun Microsystems Inc., which

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I’ll be writing to my MP to request support of the cited motion… BBC NEWS | Magazine | Innocent photographer or terrorist? Misplaced fears about terror, privacy and child protection are preventing amateur photographers from enjoying their hobby, say campaigners. Phil Smith thought ex-EastEnder Letitia Dean turning on the Christmas lights in Ipswich would make

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