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Golf War
Watching the anti-war march on the TV the other day we noticed that two of the most prominent placards in the throng at Piccadilly Circus were advertising a Golf Sale.
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Docherty on BBCi
David Docherty, until recently head of broadband content at Telewest, defends the ?200M invested in BBCi so far. From Media Guardian.
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Love and War
Juliet’s worrying about the war (and Valentine’s Day) in her latest Planet Parent column at Tigerchild.
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Roger Needham
A lovely tribute to Cambridge University’s Roger Needham from John Naughton in The Observer.
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Azhar on 3G
Good piece by Azeem Azhar in The Guardian about the mobile operators’ perilous leap into 3G.
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A death examined
I think this may be the most heartbreaking reporting to come out of the Columbia disaster: “The communication checks continue. So does the silence. A radar station near the Kennedy center then says it is putting its radar in a “search mode.” “We do not have any valid data at this time,” said Jones. He…
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Overdoing adaptation
Steven Pinker is a Pub Darwinist. We all know at least one – the guy for whom there’s no greater pleasure than locating the long hidden adaptive explanation for this or that phenomenon – wife beating, drinking, losing your car keys, droning on about natural selection… they all confer some adaptive advantage in the Pub…
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Evolution
My latest Guardian column is up today. It’s about the creeping reabsorption of the net by mainstream society and the end of our fantasies of living in a parallel world by our own rules.
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From behind the firewall
From the mind-boggling insight department. A weblog from within Saddam’s Iraq, kept in defiance of Government firewalls and intimidation by a young man possibly named Raed. I think a lot of people are going to be reading this very carefully (thanks to just about everybody for the link).