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Instead of complaining about shit service etc, I thought I’d spare my blood pressure & note the worthwhile stuff

Google Gags

January 19, 2012
Google Gags

Tried all these, most work in IE, all work in FireFox. Search for the following terms and see what happens: • Tilt • Askew • Do a Barrel roll • What Is The Loneliest Number • Where is Chuck Norris • Recursion • The next one you must start fresh: then search for google gravity and click on “I’m feeling lucky”. Now…

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Save the Internet

January 18, 2012
Save the Internet

From Avaaz: Dear friends, Today could be the day we save the free Internet. We’ve flipped the White House and Congress is on the back foot. Now Wikipedia’s blackout has pushed the US web censorship bills to the top of the news. Today we’ve reached the tipping point. Let’s bury the bill for good. Click…

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A free and open Internet?

January 18, 2012
A free and open Internet?

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Water pollution report sends shockwaves though shale gas industry

December 14, 2011

"After this damning report, which follows other simmilar reports, it is no longer possible for those championing fracking to make the claim that they are unaware of documented cases of groundwater contamination"

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Corruption in high places

November 3, 2011
Corruption in high places

From Avaaz: Dear friends, In 24 hours, world leaders meet to discuss the global economic crisis, and banks and big corporations are sponsoring the meeting in exchange for an all access pass. This, while ordinary citizens are locked out. Let’s raise a massive petition to Nicolas Sarkozy to kick out the corporations and keep the…

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The Kefir experiment

November 2, 2011
The Kefir experiment

“It is believed that the Moslem tribes-people of Northern Caucasus Mountains, were gifted kefir grains by the Prophet Mohammed while traveling through this region approx. 1,400 years ago. It is also said these tribes-people referred to kefir grains as The grains of the Prophet Mohammed and the culture product, Kefir, The Drink of the Prophet.”…

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Classic

November 1, 2011
Classic

I particularly like this photo, see the rest on Nico’s blog

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Fearing Change

October 11, 2011

We only want it black, harsh and stringent. We don’t want that fucking cutesie cookie on the saucer. Take your short bread and shove it lady.

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Stop the Secrecy Bill

September 19, 2011

From Avaaz: In four days, MPs could pass an outrageous secrecy bill that undermines the constitution and South Africa’s democracy — helping the government keep wrongdoing from the people and enabling cover-ups of corruption and human rights abuses. But there are four people that could make or break this bill: the Chief Whips. Despite top…

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Thank God for 5 day work weeks

August 16, 2011
Thank God for 5 day work weeks

After a weekend (and preceding week)  like this one needs to recover properly Lets start with last Sunday: The boulder hunting expedition (“aka Things to do while you’re trying not to worry about whether she likes you or not”) I had Monday off, thus making myself a nice long weekend (Tuesday was Woman’s day). I heard…

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