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Tim Ostler

Tim Ostler

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here - this is the War Room
Although he named #Apple after the Beatles, I always thought that if Steve #Jobs had been a musician he would have sung like Brian Wilson
Chinese gulags to be abolished? If so, surely human rights story of the year - http://www.ft.com/cms... #FT #humanrights #China
Spare a thought for the 1970s one-hit wonders never to be seen on TV again because their one appearance on TOTP was hosted by Jimmy #Savile
Next Texan in line after #Armstrong for #Oprah TV pseudo-absolution? Surely #GeorgeWBush
#Nook - at last competition for #iBooks till now only #iPhone app that can read a book out loud #VoiceOver #audiobooks https://t.co/oSu24F7X
RT @WiredUK: Puzzlingly huge black hole http://www.wired.co.uk/news... by @PhilippaWarr Surely it's big because it's just eaten almost all the galaxy?
Interesting to find that #Google Sets are still available http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2012... #ux
I for one welcome our new Canadian Governor of the Bank of England and humbly present an ode in his honour: https://t.co/6GxWCIEK
So if the UK disobeys the EU law to allow prisoner voting, do we lose our right to vote in the EU Parliament? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
RT @profanityswan: We've all done it.... RT @DailyMirror: Lovelorn yachtsman sails solo for seven months to propose to girl who hates him http://www.mirror.co.uk/news...
Pressure off Lance Armstrong as focus on historical doping allegations shifts to Autonomy
Ingenious mashup of Jubilee and Northern Lines tube map with flat rental graphs http://www.rentonomy.com/posts... #ux #infoviz #economics
Bob Dylan's croaking gurgle sounds more like Louis Armstrong with every passing album https://t.co/sMlFbL72
Shanghai Time-Lapse: never were so many million tonnes of CO2 so beautifully emitted https://t.co/KDBNXGWC via @smashingmag
Credit where it's due: Microsoft's best idea - RT @zeldman: Semantic Zoom. http://msdn.microsoft.com/Areas... #aeasf
As Scott McNealy might have said, "You have no free will. Get over it." https://t.co/B5sx5iXo #cognitivescience #samharris
RT @GraemeGarden1: Very proud to hear that 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' is to be adopted as the BBC's new motto.
Chocolate coffin & contents - a tasty PR gift http://twitter.com/cogarch...
Go to Mitt Romney's FB page. Take note of number of likes. Refresh page. https://t.co/jaDFiAp5 RT @benguild via @marzabar
In other news, Pope is a Catholic >> RT @charlesarthur: BREAKING: New Archbishop of Canterbury “believes in God”
Siberian St Bernard revives #Google Wave http://blog.rizzoma.com
RT @harrybr: I've "solved" my mediawiki problem by WGETting the served content & hatcheting it into a static html site. Don't laugh. http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Home...
Death of a brand - a.k.a. damnatio memoriae: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
RT @johnmaeda: "The truly creative person is not an outlaw but a lawmaker … bringing order out of chaos." —John Gardner http://our.risd.edu/post...
Patten speaks of Entwistle's "baptism of fire" over a "tsunami of filth". Or maybe the other way around? #savile http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
Status update worthy of the name - City Dashboard: London http://citydashboard.org/london... via @oobr
NYT Public Editor calls on paper to review appointment of Mark Thompson as Chief Exec after BBC's Savile débacle http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012...
Another super-tough Tour de France looms - surely not what is needed if we want to discourage doping #tdf #armstrong http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport...
Who really won the Tours de Lance? #armstrong http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...
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