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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
March 1
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Chinese gulags to be abolished? If so, surely human rights story of the year -
http://www.ft.com/cms...
#FT
#humanrights
#China
February 18
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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
January 30
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Next Texan in line after
#Armstrong
for
#Oprah
TV pseudo-absolution? Surely
#GeorgeWBush
January 18
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#Nook
- at last competition for
#iBooks
till now only
#iPhone
app that can read a book out loud
#VoiceOver
#audiobooks
https://t.co/oSu24F7X
November 29
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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?
November 29
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Interesting to find that
#Google
Sets are still available
http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
#ux
November 29
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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
November 27
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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...
November 22
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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...
November 22
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Pressure off Lance Armstrong as focus on historical doping allegations shifts to Autonomy
November 22
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Ingenious mashup of Jubilee and Northern Lines tube map with flat rental graphs
http://www.rentonomy.com/posts...
#ux
#infoviz
#economics
November 21
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Bob Dylan's croaking gurgle sounds more like Louis Armstrong with every passing album
https://t.co/sMlFbL72
November 20
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Shanghai Time-Lapse: never were so many million tonnes of CO2 so beautifully emitted
https://t.co/KDBNXGWC
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smashingmag
November 15
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Credit where it's due: Microsoft's best idea - RT @
zeldman
: Semantic Zoom.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/Areas...
#aeasf
November 13
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As Scott McNealy might have said, "You have no free will. Get over it."
https://t.co/B5sx5iXo
#cognitivescience
#samharris
November 13
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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.
November 12
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Chocolate coffin & contents - a tasty PR gift
http://twitter.com/cogarch...
November 12
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Go to Mitt Romney's FB page. Take note of number of likes. Refresh page.
https://t.co/jaDFiAp5
RT @
benguild
via @
marzabar
November 10
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In other news, Pope is a Catholic >> RT @
charlesarthur
: BREAKING: New Archbishop of Canterbury “believes in God”
November 9
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Siberian St Bernard revives
#Google
Wave
http://blog.rizzoma.com
November 7
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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...
November 4
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Death of a brand - a.k.a. damnatio memoriae:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
November 2
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Death of the IOS fake tan?
#ux
#skeuomorphism
#apple
http://www.macworld.co.uk/apple-b...
October 30
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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...
October 26
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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...
October 25
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Status update worthy of the name - City Dashboard: London
http://citydashboard.org/london...
via @
oobr
October 24
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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...
October 24
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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...
October 24
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Who really won the Tours de Lance?
#armstrong
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...
October 23
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