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Ok, they've gone for an ad model like the rest of the web rather than sort the subscription system into something worthwhile, but the first UK SN is now trying to play catchup. Sounds familiar really...
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Lord Soley has roped a bunch of friends in to contributing to a group blog about the House of Lords and how it works. This is a more jokey \"translation\" post, worth a read (via webofevil)
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Sculptures of human heads done as if they're trophies of some sort or other. Crrepy, but cool.
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Um, isn't it tool use that set's us apart? How cool is this? I can has librarian?
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Barry Cryer interviewed (with video) in a tribute to Humph
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Tribute to Humph by Cryer in the Observer
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Scalzi states truth: thereâ™s increasing value in showing that one intelligently aggregates and comments on other peopleâ™s brilliance and great thoughts, because then people come to you for those aggregation and commentary skills
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My next project is an SaaS thing that looks quite cool, so Nick Carr cheers me up: software-as-a-service is rapidly \"becoming mainstream,\" with three-quarters of software buyers saying they are \"favorably disposed to adopting SaaS platforms\"
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I used to do 4 of these when I used a client, and still do a chunk with Gmail, auto labelling and auto filters are great for keeping it simple. I still have a thousand emails in my inbox but, y'know, it'd be worse if there was no system
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Amy writes a stand up skit. Explaining feminism and why you are one. But not me. I'm an equalist, no baggage or crazy loons with that label. Gah, categories, can't we just be people? Oh, no, wait, we tried that, people suck.
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Joel is taking requests for his regular picspam posts, a recent one was male backsides. Given some of you lot are as pervy as his readers, I thought I'd share
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Not really sure how you could possibly enforce this but... 'the right to sexual enjoyment means ensuring women can make free, responsible and informed decisions about their sex lives'
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Predates the 'w' by several hundred years and was likely created by a lazy git of a roman, who was likely attacked for being lazy txter equivalent at the time no doubt
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Date: 2008-Apr-30, Wednesday 14:15 (UTC)Very, very cool. The pics of him swimming were groovy as well. And the fact that, once he couldn't spear fish in the water, he used the stick on a fisherman's net to tip a fish out. Success!
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Date: 2008-Apr-30, Wednesday 23:16 (UTC)Nah, there's some crows or other that not only use tools (sharpened or hooked sticks, iirc) to get their food, they actually modify the tool based on past performance.
Humans: not as special as we think we are.
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Date: 2008-Apr-30, Wednesday 23:21 (UTC)I knew corvids freaked me the hell out for a reason (though I defy anybody to have to capture a panicked magpie in a tiny bathroom and not become terrified of the big mad things). I for one welcome our new avian overlords.
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Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 13:05 (UTC)