Interesting Links for 28-10-2011
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andrewducker- French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
- Wheat is EVIL. Apparently.
- Samuel L. Jackson Is the highest-grossing actor of all time.
- Sentencing laws: Mandatory life and public protection. A difficult balancing act
- Livejournal apparently having massive privacy/security issues right now.
- An explanation of the latest Livejournal security/privacy mess.
- Ex-Prime Minster's claim £1.7million for "public duties".
- Company makes children's toys out of their own drawings. Almost offensively cute.
- Google's latest response on pseudonyms on G+
- Google+ is now available with Google Apps (migration tool coming soon)
migration - Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone sales. We'll see how they are once the 4S figures come in.
- How the new public sector pensions will work
- UK clocks change trial being considered - moving us onto Central European Time.
- Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
- Wired Readers Suggest The Greatest Geek Books of All Time. They are clearly old.
- Directors' pay rose 50% in past year.
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:44 pm (UTC)I'm also interested by what phones people are using, in general, and the changing fortunes of the different operating systems, and that's connected.
My next phone _might_ be a Samsung one. But if it's not then it'll be an HTC, or a Sony Ericsson.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:02 pm (UTC)Well, no. I'd get an iPhone. But you know what I mean.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:33 pm (UTC)Heck, if I can manage to buy the phone outright and then just go sim-only then that would be perfect, but I'm not sure whether I'll have the cash up front to manage that in January. I'll see.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 06:42 pm (UTC)Sure, Apple have more weight now - but they were already doing very well then.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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