Interesting Links for 03-02-2012
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andrewducker- Gorgeous Red Aurora Over Australia
- Broadband speeds improving in the UK. Interesting to note that high-speed connections provide much closer to their premises (boo to ADSL)
- Beyond ACTA: next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood
- Some very good analysis of the recent case where a photograph was found to breach copyright despite not being an actual copy.
- The previous, approved by Alan Moore, Watchmen spinoffs from the 80s.
- Livejournal tells us to look forward to Unspecified Future Things. Commenters are...sceptical.
- Achievement Unlocked! Work in IT? Collect them all!
- Entirely Legitimate Ubisoft Games Won’t Work on Tuesday
- Can anyone better this headline?
"Cannibal who ate head of former lover proposes to Satan-worshipping vampire girlfriend behind bars of psychiatric unit." I mean, _really_.
- Anonymous Hacks Neo-Nazis, Finds Ron Pau
- How to Write Good
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Date: 2012-02-03 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-03 11:06 am (UTC)I still think that is the best ever.
Second best: After Elton John's marriage The Sun went with the headline: "Elton Takes David Up the Aisle."
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Date: 2012-02-03 11:33 am (UTC)"German pensioner eats 64-year-old US lard"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16852830
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Date: 2012-02-03 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-03 12:57 pm (UTC)"Teacher who 'spoonfed semen to blindfolded children' was investigated in 1994 over 'groping 10-year-old girl'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095742/Mark-Berndt-Teacher-spoonfed-semen-children-investigated-1994.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline
And people wonder why this is the most popular news website in the world...
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Date: 2012-02-03 07:26 pm (UTC)http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/62732998.html
(here with slightly different headline)
http://stage.sundaysport.com/?p=1798
For me it beats their previous high or "World war 2 bomber found on moon vanishes" (Their unique way of retracting their previous "World war 2 bomber found on moon" which was proved not to be the case)
http://panpa.org.au/2011/04/06/daily-sport-goes-missing-not-on-moon/
Disappointingly though the dwarf story must also lose some marks for being largely fictitious.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/percy-foster-dead_n_962667.html