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Here Comes Trouble

Posted on September 27th by Dean. Comments
Since the exit of Blair, Brown's takeover at the top of the Labour party, making him Prime Minister without an election has rankled with the British population. His virtues - ...
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Google Street View: Invasion of Privacy

Posted on March 21st by Dean. Comments
Google Street view has struggled to launch in the UK. As in the US, authorities have insisted on the blurring of faces and number plates. Post-launch, the press is ...
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Not a Googlewhack

Posted on March 6th by Dean. Comments
Googlewhacking arose several years ago as a result of Google's rise to dominance in the search wars. The game is to find two words who don't yet appear anywhere, or ...
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A Continuous Act of Charity

Posted on February 13th by Dean. Comments
It's a strange thing to see charitable giving becoming a trend. With the organising of Twestival, the multiple city gatherings assembled via the Twitter platform, in the name of ...
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My Democracy in Action

Posted on January 15th by Dean. Comments
Say what you like about our deeply flawed system, but it does work, sometimes. I wrote to my MP expressing my horror at the Israeli war crimes in Gaza ...
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Throwing Shoes

Posted on January 5th by Dean. Comments
Sometimes entire populations get it right. In the face of political leaders pouring out reality-warping, truth-defying Orwellian language, popular symbols arise which effectively puncture these evil thought balloons. Enter Muntadar al-Zaidi, ...