Author Archives
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‘My life was ruined by a typo’
When Nigel Lang was wrongly arrested on suspicion of sharing indecent images of children, he says his life fell apart. It all stemmed from nothing more than a typing error by police. “When I was arrested, I feared what was… Read More ›
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How to talk on the telephone
I may have posted this before, but it’s still great fun to read. via Old Pics Archive.
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Future Boyfriend: A Short Film
Worth 10 minutes of your time today.
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Always Put a Comma Before “and” in a List
Do you go to the store for “cupcakes, vanilla, and chocolate” or “cupcakes, vanilla and chocolate”? There’s a long-running debate over whether it’s proper to include that last comma in a list. Well, forget proper. The comma makes things clearer,… Read More ›
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The 1984 Chevrolet Corvette
Be honest, you would love to drive this for an hour.
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Meet the internet hoax buster
On 13 May 2012, friends of Dana Dirr, a 35-year-old surgeon in Saskatchewan, were greeted with a distressing message when they logged into Facebook: “URGENT PRAYERS NEEDED.” A post written by Dirr’s father informed her friends that Dana was fighting… Read More ›
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Kingsway: an RPG set in Windows 95
The latest announcement from Adult Swim Games is Kingsway coming to PC in summer 2017. The announcement trailer is run as an old-school infomercial for a new computer operating system, but it is absolutely a point-and-click RPG styled to look… Read More ›
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You can’t built a bridge between technology and tradition
I have been having some strange thoughts recently about the Apple Watch. Sorry to bang on about it, but it is annoying me despite the fact I am still wearing it every day. I really want to wear my Seiko… Read More ›
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Can the Surface Phone, or any other non-iOS or Android phone, succeed?
“I sincerely think its too late for Microsoft to succeed in the smartphone business no matter what they come up with,” comments a reader going by Osokona. “No one is going to switch their investment in iPhhones and aPhone and… Read More ›
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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
In fact, the panel’s experts say there’s almost one psychopath for every 100 people, with rates shooting up in the workplace, especially in leadership, thanks to psychopaths’ ease with manipulation. Research finds that nearly 4 percent of corporate CEOs are… Read More ›
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