Interesting Links for 1-11-2011
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andrewducker- Richard Feynman on the disease which computer programmers are infected with.
- Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
- A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - beautiful and touching.
- Hobbiton set report spoiler analysis. I HAVE BEEN EARWORMED BY THE HOBBIT MUSIC AND IT WILL! NOT! STOP!
- Coronation Street to be the first UK show to feature paid product placement
- Vincent Tabak porn decision was correct - common sense from everyone!
- Scottish government reintroduces alcohol pricing bill
- Technical aptitude: Do women score lower because they just aren't interested?
- Only 3% of traffic on the Three mobile network is phone calls.
- If growth's the problem, are more ARMs the answer?
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Date: 2011-11-01 12:00 pm (UTC)Does anyone else think that using the word "porn" instead of "pornography" throughout a serious news report is a little slovenly, linguistically speaking?
Or am I just being an old fart?
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Date: 2011-11-01 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 01:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 01:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 02:08 pm (UTC)I'll leave you to decide whether it's exciting :D
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Date: 2011-11-01 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 11:56 pm (UTC)I can understand the blank lines might make it easier for people to scan the list of links, especially on days when you have lots of them, but my own preference would be for "link/tags/blank" rather than "link/blank/tags", as far as formatting goes.
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Date: 2011-11-02 07:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-02 07:38 pm (UTC)He says, off to fix a bug in the feed posting code...