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Monthly Archives: April 2007
A Hint
If you’re on the train listening to music through the speaker on your crappy little phone people aren’t looking at you because they admire your taste in funky beats. They’re wishing that you were dead, from something painful.
Consumer News
Equifax collect credit data about you and then sell that data to financial institutions who are considering lending you money. If you want to know what they’re saying about you, you can pay them £17 to see a copy of … Continue reading
Posted in Briefly, Shopping
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Dan le Sac
You know I’m not usually one for posting links to videos on You Tube, so this must be a pretty special video, right?
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Reporting Alan Johnston
Lots of people think that BBC News is biased in one way or another. It isn’t. People who don’t work for the BBC simply cannot imagine the trouble and wrangling and arguments that go into making sure that the output … Continue reading
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Mansion
According to BBC News the experiments that will seek to identify the elusive Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at Cern are “each about the size of a mansion”. How the f**k big is a mansion? … Continue reading
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The Mark of Cain
The Mark of Cain is a film made by Channel Four about a group of young British soldiers in Iraq. In it “Iraqi detainees are mistreated at the hands of the soldiers; de-sensitised by violence and encouraged by their mates.” According to the … Continue reading