Category: Society
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An iPod, an aircraft toilet and what happened next
What a story! A World of Warcraft gamer en route to meet a fellow gamer in Canada sparked a major security alert when he, er, lost his iPod on board his flight. Here’s how the story begins: It all started…
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The Iranian president’s blog and devious intent
When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad started a blog last week, it didn’t get an awful lot of meaningful attention in the English-speaking blogosphere. Perhaps it should have, if only to say that here we have the first blog in the…
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Share your memories at the BBC
An intriguing social experiment from the BBC – The Time When: […] The site is a place to record and share memories of the important days in your life. It also gives information about events which have taken place on…
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Freedom’s compromise
It looks like I managed to return to Amsterdam late this morning through a narrow window of opportunity, so to speak, given the disruption to air travel that’s now biting hard following the terrorist plot in the UK that’s been…
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900 years of English history goes online
I’d bet that few people haven’t heard of the Domesday Book, the survey of England commissioned in 1085 by William I (William the Conqueror) who conquered England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This publication is still used today…