06. 09. 2012
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Making Up The News

Daily Mail, Today: The Advertising Standards Authority, Today: Yet another story in national news today, including quote from ASA, saying we’re getting complaints about Christmas ads. Completely untrue. — ASA (@ASA_UK) September 6,...

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27. 03. 2012
gameshop

Awww, Poor Game

Game‘s gone into administration. PwC, who are leading the process, have blamed this on: “[...] a very ambitious overseas expansion into seven territories in addition to the UK. On top of that the...

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14. 03. 2012
Changing of the guard

Changing of the guard

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures...

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18. 01. 2012
SOPA for Brits

SOPA for Brits

So, Wikipedia is shutdown today. Reddit, ICHC and a large number of other sites will be showing their irritation at SOPA and the concepts surrounding it by joining them in going dark for...

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18. 10. 2011
Savior

Savior

Church HIV prayer cure claims ’cause three deaths’ The women died after attending churches in London where they were encouraged to stop taking the antiretroviral drugs in the belief that God would heal...

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29. 08. 2011
Alternonymity

Alternonymity

The google+ debarcle rages on. Schmit claimed that Google+ was an “Identity” service, and the world would be a better place if people had to go by their full names. However. A system...

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09. 08. 2011
Riots and Resolution

Riots and Resolution

It was oppressive in East London yesterday. Late afternoon I got a message from Fyr that things had kicked off in Hackney. A guy had been stopped and searched and suddenly that was...

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27. 07. 2011
An apology

An apology

Ladies and Gentlefolk, On behalf of everybody at the New Grunsford News, we would officially like to apologise without reservation or fear of distraction, for getting caught hacking your phones. It was not...

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09. 04. 2011
the political and technical state of .ly domains

the political and technical state of .ly domains

Ownership The libian govenement has outsourced control of the .ly root name space to a (libian) organisation, “LL ccTLD“, which is not the government, (The UK does kind of the same thing, it...

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20. 01. 2011
10 O'Clock Live

10 O'Clock Live

The Daily Show is a program I like a lot. 10 O’Clock Live is trying, somewhat self consciously, to be a British Daily Show, and both passes and fails. The Daily Show format,...

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