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La Luna — New short film from Pixar
Just magical. Please give it a watch.
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Butt ugly: are looks important when you're buying a water butt?
I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to water butt design, but I came across two products this week that proved me wrong. Fans of Buttwatch will love this…
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Short Story: A man in the central reservation near the station
Colchester’s North Station is not a glamorous place. Part Victorian, Part 1960’s, it features the kind of long, slow incline up to the platform that makes you think you might be ascending to some kind of greatness. Instead you’ll find overpriced tea, and not enough seats. There’
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How much do Google and Facebook profit from your data?
Great post from ArsTechnica about putting a monetary value to your activity on sites like Facebook and Google: Privacyfix measures your last 60 days of activity on Google, extrapolates that to a year, and uses a value-per-search estimate. Analysts believed Google was making $14.70 per 1,000 searches in
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Twitter's CEO is a comedian. (No, really)
NYT Report on Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter: Very much worth a read. After you’ve read it you won’t be surprised by what Twitter is developing into…
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British beer-makers fight back against fashion for foreign hops
Great piece from the Guardian about British Hops. I’ve had great fun growing some of my own this year, but look forward to trying out some different versions. They grow so quickly and smell amazing when picked. Here are some tweet-thoughts from Ferguson, Head Brewer at Adnams — provider of
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"My blackberry isn't working"
Please watch this sketch. True genius from Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield.
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On DIY, and knowing the real problem to solve
The old base of the patio, before becoming the new base of the new patio. I love making real things. Until we moved into our current house last May I never realised quite how much. I used to describe myself as “not really practical” — I’d never really considered spending
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Do you remember the sound of a modem dialling up?
From John Pemberton at The Atlantic. A fine piece about those nostalgic electronic chirrups that I remember dearly: Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It’s
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Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?
From Wired, a simply great piece of writing about a mysterious radioactive container: Halfway down the second row, a crimson 20-footer with “TGHU 307703 0 22G1″ emblazoned in white on its side jerked the dials. As he passed a few feet from the box’s left side, Montagna was absorbing
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History of 11 delightful logos
Worth a look through, as there are some fantastic little stories.
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How browsers work
Geektastic information on how browsers work.