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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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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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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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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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Please watch this sketch. True genius from Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield.
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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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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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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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Worth a look through, as there are some fantastic little stories.
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Geektastic information on how browsers work.
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Twitter’s ground breaking innovation [1. Copying features from Facebook] continues: New profiles now feature header photos so you can express who you are more meaningfully on Twitter. Upload an image from your mobile device and see the same beautiful profile design on your phone, tablet or computer. Read more
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Even if there was only five minutes left to a meeting, even if Google cofounder Sergey Brin himself was mid sentence and expecting an answer from Katy, Mayer would say “Katy’s gotta go” and Katy would walk out the door and answer the questions later by e-mail after the