Category: Society
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A sign of the times
During a visit to a Tesco store today, I spotted this sign. You get accustomed to seeing such notices in the electrical products section – all those expensive plasma TVs, computers, etc – DVDs, even the booze department. But in…
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Is your website green?
Reading about CO2Stats (via TechCrunch), a company who says it monitors your website’s environmental footprint and purchases renewable energy to neutralize it: […] The carbon footprint of air and automobile transportation is widely known, but few people are aware that…
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No need for speed
I’ve been thinking about speeding lately. Rather, the consequences of speeding. In April, I was snapped by this speed camera in London doing 34mph in a 30mph limit. I didn’t realize it until a notice of intended prosecution arrived in…
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Political leadership past, present and future
Watching the TV coverage this morning of US presidential candidate Barack Obama’s visit to London this weekend, and reading much of the online media and blog commentaries, I was struck by the imagery suggested by a montage I’ve mixed together…
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The power of love
It’s been hard to avoid reading about the new 3G iPhone, launched around the world on Friday. Much of what I’ve seen has been about the frustrations and disappointments with Apple’s activation system, resulting in hundreds if not thousands of…