XKCD - A hilarious webcomic “of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”, and has the following warning:
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
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More than 5,000 people have joined a Facebook group opposed to HSBC’s scrapping on it’s free overdraft on graduate accounts, and have caused the bank to retreat:
The banking giant HSBC has been forced to back down on student overdraft fees after a campaign on the social networking site Facebook.More than 5,000 students got the bank [...]

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A decade ago, a woman was killed in a car crash in Paris. This caused extreme outpourings of “grief” from people who had never even met the woman, let alone actually had any sort of relationship with her. And this has led to what Cranmer has referred to as to the “Dianaification” of society:
Dianification: the [...]

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The second part [but third post] in my guest post series at the Wardman Wire is now up:
In the first post of this series, I wrote about blogging whilst “just” 22. I suggested that there was a pretty much definite positive correlation between age/”life experience” and the “worth” of opinions. In this post, I am [...]

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The rubbish on TV isn’t even real any more…
A rubbish tip made of 1,000 tonnes of rotting household and construction waste has been built by Channel 4… so that ten contestants in a new reality show can live on it for three weeks. Health and Safety officials banned the producers from using the real landfill [...]

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My second guest post over at the Wardman Wire isn’t really the next post in the series that I am writing whilst Matt is away on holiday [hence the "1.5"] but primarily to point to a couple of replies to my first post.
Good replies have been made by Graachi and Matt, which very cleverly [...]

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No, I didn’t actually step on them. I just bent them to make them sit right and they broke. Which is very, very annoying. The picture above is of the temporary repair job attempted by my brother - with a few cocktail sticks and some tape. For a while I was either wearing them or [...]

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The TUC are saying that employers should allow their employees to access social networking sites such as Facebook during office hours.
The TUC called on businesses to set out guidelines for the use of Facebook, other networking sites and social e-mail rather than impose blanket bans. Several big companies have blocked access to the sites, concerned [...]

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I have just finished watching David Cameron on Newsnight last night - you can watch it here, but only until 5pm tonight. This has been all over the blogosphere, and I’m sure mentioned in more places than I’ve looked, so I won’t bother writing too much.
He did very well indeed. He came across as reasoned, [...]

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Want to be Spider-man? It’s just a matter of time…
A “Spiderman suit” that allows the wearer to scale vertical walls just like the fictional superhero could one day be a reality.Insects, spiders and geckos all have tiny hairs on their feet that set up weak attractions called van der Waals forces between molecules that are [...]

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