• Hypergene MediaBlog – The Bastardization of Beta
  It seems that every new web application now sports a ‘beta’ tagline. Furthermore, it seems to stay that way for an indeterminable amount of time.
  (categories: media software web development beta)
• Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The trouble with fruit and veg
  Secondly, fruit and vegetables are an important source of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, which we have recently come to understand much better.
  (categories: diet health)
• A Brief History of Writing Instuments – Ink and Letters
  The history of writing instruments by which humans have recorded and conveyed thoughts, feelings and grocery lists, is the history of civilization itself.
  (categories: society)

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2004: Wigan Man with Knighthood

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2004: Wigan Man with Knighthood

• BBC NEWS | Technology | The future in your pocket
  If you are a geek or gadget fan, the next 12 months look like they are going to be a lot of fun
• Freedom of Information. So, right now, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities – but will it mean any change?(categories: information freedom 2006)
• Vote on a prediction for 2005. More predictions for 2005 – fewer trains, fewer MPs and a charity walk. I can’t wait. Honest.(categories: 2006 media predictions)
• BBC NEWS | Magazine | An act of God?
  How could a God, or some other force for good, have orchestrated a natural disaster with such dreadful consequences? It’s a question many are asking.
  
  

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• Walk reduces festive heart harm
  Glasgow University research for the British Heart Foundation found it could help reduce the damage done by too much Christmas pudding.

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2003: Armistead Maupin

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2003: Armistead Maupin

• WackyLabs.Net – Flickr Screensaver v2
  a flickr screensaver – how cool
  (categories: flickr photos)

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2005: Boxes Everywhere
2005: Civil Partnership: What’s It All About?
2004: Celebrity T-Shirt Auction
2003: Coolest of 2003
2002: Stuck On Me

On this day…

2005: Boxes Everywhere
2005: Civil Partnership: What’s It All About?
2004: Celebrity T-Shirt Auction
2003: Coolest of 2003
2002: Stuck On Me

• unobtrusive uavascript
  On the following pages, we will discuss how we can use JavaScript while still maintaining accessibility. The technique to completely separate JavaScript from the other two layers of web development has become commonly known as “unobtrusive JavaScript”.

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2005: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2003: Thoughts on Helsinki
2002: Things That Make You Go “Huum”

On this day…

2005: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2003: Thoughts on Helsinki
2002: Things That Make You Go “Huum”

• radio 4: home truths tribute to john peel
  Roger McGough presented a Home Truths tribute programme to John on 30 October 2004

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2005: 1700 Tracks And Counting
2003: The Trench
2003: More Time Shifts
2001: Privacy Policy

On this day…

2005: 1700 Tracks And Counting
2003: The Trench
2003: More Time Shifts
2001: Privacy Policy

• consumers snub portable video
  How true this is, but I bet you really knew this already!
• Soho nail bomb survivor murdered
  Terrible news from a part of London that I regularly pass through in the early hours on the way home

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2004: The Whispering Years
2002: The Ultimate Boy Band CD (2) Aka The I Am Shallow Project

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2004: The Whispering Years
2002: The Ultimate Boy Band CD (2) Aka The I Am Shallow Project

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• cityofsound: John Peel RIP
  A daring DJ, a shining pillar of the BBC and one of the greatest influences on UK music ever – he’ll be much missed.
• Mark Radcliffe – ‘I thought the world of him’
  He made us realise that you did not have to mellow with age – music could continue to mean as much to us now as it always did
• If sometimes you’re catching a fleeting glimpse, of a twelfth man at silly mid-on (Phil Gyford: Writing)
  So many people have been introduced to a new musical world by Peel’s shows, without which their lives would have been poorer, if not entirely different.

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2005: I Am In Oslo
2005: Audience Up
2003: Effect Xmas

On this day…

2005: I Am In Oslo
2005: Audience Up
2003: Effect Xmas

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