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Tim Worstall —As every party promises to rebalance Britain’s economy away from finance, the creative industries are a fast-growing sector. Between 1997 and 2007, they created two million new jobs and £16.6bn in exports. There’s about 30 million people in the UK labour force. So the claim is that the “creative industries”, which Polly seems to [...]
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Stumbling and Mumbling —Should firms be free to sack workers who are short or ugly? The answer is yes, if you support the CBI’s opposition to the government’s decision to scrap the default retirement age. The case for firms forcibly retiring 65-year-olds is...
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Though Cowards Flinch —So ASBOs are on their way out after 13 years of ’Do they work or don’t they'’ and ‘Is individual civil liberty more important than group well-being?’. On balance, I’m glad they’re going, because although the latter question is a pertinent enough one in any city, town and village, its reduction to those dichotomous terms loses sight [...]
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TechCrunch —Security specialist Ron Bowes has once again proven how easy it is to glean valuable user information from Facebook , by spidering Facebook's online directory and compiling it all into one neat little torrent that could be downloaded off his site, SkullSecurity.com. Bowes created a torrent containing over 171 million entries with links to profiles that provide access to the names, addresses and phone...
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Tom Nelson —UK to back wind and nuclear to avert energy crisis | Environment | guardian.co.uk Friends of the Earth's sustainable energy advisor Alan Simpson welcomed Huhne's backing for wind power, but cautioned against new nuclear plants and cutting spending on green technology. "When it comes to renewable energy the UK has been in the slow lane for far too long and without urgent action we risk missing...
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Coolest Gadgets —I’ve heard of different gadgets that help the DIY challenged find studs in the wall, but this hammer actually has a built-in stud finder that’ll help you to hang up heavy items without causing too much distress to your walls. With the stud sensor you’ll be able to find the stud and then it even [...]
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3quarksdaily —Martin Robbins in The Guardian: The government has released its eagerly anticipated response to the Science and Technology Committee's Evidence Check on Homeopathy and, incredibly, it's even worse than I thought it would be. The verdict is "business as usual",...
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Joystiq —Dutch publisher Playlogic ( Fairytale Fights , Obscure: The Aftermath ) has notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it has entered into "surseance van betaling," which is closely equivalent to the States' Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company claims in the filing that "Tough market conditions, late payments by large customers and the delays in projects have forced the company...
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Intelligent Travel —J.D. Power and Associates on Tuesday released its 2010 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study, which grades hotel guest contentment. The best-scoring hotels, organized by class, offered amenities like free wireless internet, free breakfast, and free parking. You can... Hotel - J. D. Power and Associates - Rome - Parking - Colosseum
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Torque Control —The Booker longlist has been announced: There are no first novels – which have become a feature at longlist stage in the last few years, and there is no genre fiction. Motion said they had not consciously set out to exclude genre but stressed that the Man Booker prize was an award for literary fiction [...]
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales —The government’s proposed immigration cap, one of the Conservatives’ flagship policies, seems to be falling apart months before its implementation date. That it has caused tensions within the Coalition is not really surprising. What will most probably kill it, though, is the opposition from business. … Continue reading →
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forallouryesterdays blog spot —27 July 2010 Last updated at 12:36 Share this page Facebook Twitter Share Email Print Inquiry after bodies found in Cramlington The bodies of two young men have been found in a Northumberland town, police said. Northumbria Police said they were alerted by a report expressing concern for the pair on a patch of land near the Brockwell clinic, Cramlington, on Tuesday morning. The bodies of two men, aged...
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War News Updates —Passenger plane crash near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Photo from RIA Novosti/Stringer No Survivors As Pakistan Plane Crash Kills 152 -- BBC News A plane has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board. The plane, an Airblue flight from Karachi to Islamabad, came down in the Margalla Hills. Officials said the plane lost contact with the control...
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Bishop Hill —Pielke Jnr takes aim at an absurd article in PNAS (the journal that famously published the upside-down Mann paper and Anderegg's blacklist paper too). Oppenheimer: "They're all a comin' !" Princeton' professor Michael Oppenheimer predicts that climate change will cause between 1.4 and 6.7 million Mexicans to move to the US, a finding that Pielke lucidly describes as "guesswork piled...
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Boing Boing —My latest Guardian column, "Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade," looks at how a curated computing experiences (like the hand-picked apps in the Apple App Store and the Google Android Marketplace) offer undeniable value, but can be configured to be coercive traps or helpful starting points: Two categories in particular won't ever be fulfilled by a curator: first,...
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