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  Ex Urbe - an anglophone in Florence. Brilliant, and very funny, new blog
  I spent less than 48 hours in Florence as I wanted to get to Sienna. I've been wanting to go back for ages as it's, simply, a beautiful city. Someone linked to this and I started laughing. And learning things, then laughing ( Read more... )

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  Social-Creature » This Is Why You Share - makes sense to me
  Why we enjoy sharing stuff--I certainly think through and remember what I've read more if I've had to write one of these 'why you should click this' blurbs
  (tags: sharing webstuff psychology linkspam)
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  denise: " ( Read more... )

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  Vince Cable scraps plans to block websites, widespread changes to our copyright law-Go Vince
  A strong step in the right direction, and abandoning the pointless, good good.
  (tags: Vince-Cable DEAct Digital-economy-act copyright)
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  Ultimate Spider-Man rebooted with half- ( Read more... )

Jonathan May-Bowles is, as far as I'm aware, no relative of mine. This is good, because while I and my family have done some daft things in our time, directly attacking Parliament isn't something I'd particularly like to be associated with. 'Jonnie Marbles' jailed Sentencing May-Bowles, district judge Daphne Wickham said the aim of the attack was ( Read more... )

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  NewsCorp lawyer "did not realise that paying the police was a criminal offence"
  FFS.
  (tags: Murdoch NewsCorp Hacking Jon-Chapman)
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  Facebook will destroy your children's brains | @mjrobbins has got this science coverage spot on
  It's possibly true that ( Read more... )

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  Thatcher withdraws from public life-street party now?
  The joke of paying for Thatcher's funeral by charging for the dancefloor over her grave was always just a little off. But maybe those that want to celebrate her passing should do so now, when she's closed her offices and withdrawn from public ( Read more... )

Posted several linkdumps and a substantive entry to DW. The crossposter from DW is still not always getting access, neither am I, but figured some of you might like links to what you may've missed:
Livejournal under attack again
(friends locked, you'll need to login with OpenID, it's got a full list of all my currently available invite codes)

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  How cool is Louise Mensch MP? Dear tabloid hack: burn
  she's a Tory I mostly disagree with, but she's doing some sterling work on the DCMS committee, and this answer is great. Oh, she married recently. To Metalica's manager.
  (tags: from-phone)

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  How a Business Dies - Tim Worstall's business is in trouble. This pleases him.
  One of the things that teaching myself loads of economics is doing is to become even more keen on, and accepting of, the affects of change. Policy makers need to help people as jobs and companies come and go when ( Read more... )

So, it's summer, which means us school employed non-teacher types get time off. And, unexpectedly, this li'l stepdad found out yesterday that stepdaughter is at Dad's all next week so I have a completely free week with no plans (and very little money ( Read more... )