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[philmophlegm]

'Voldemort' cat finds new home

Birmingham banker in badly-fitting suit turns into superhero at night to fight crime

The artisan and the freer market

Jack the Ripper: The Suspects

What's John McCain up to now? Trying to get a pardon for Jack Johnson.

Neal Stephenson on "What the strange persistence of rockets can tell us about innovation".

Bill Clinton was the only US president since Truman to reduce federal spending

"Britons face not being able to have everything they want."

"Twitter is giving a disproportionate voice to unpleasant but vocal minorities."

Private companies wary of hiring public sector workers.

Clever tool to compare digital cameras using actual photos

UK net immigration since 1997 "the equivalent of seven cities the size of Manchester"

The Mexicans are unhappy again, but this time not at Richard Hammond

Carl Sagan worked on project to "nuke the Moon"

Comments

[andrewducker]

You've got the "Britons face not being able to have everything they want" link in for the "Twitter is giving..." text...

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Fixed. Thanks for the heads-up.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Actually you could add the rider that the Clinton link seems to be written to be a bipartisan or neutral comment, I was half expecting it to be a pro-democrat piece.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It's from a politically neutral but libertarian pressure group. I think it makes the point well that many people instinctively think that 'Democrat' = 'Tax & Spend' and 'Republican' = 'Budget Balancing' when this is clearly bollocks.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

'Voldemort' cat looked rather un-nerving, and I couldn't figure out why until I realised that because he doesn't have ears he looks almost as though they are folded back. Having lived with a fairly infamous biter, I tend to be rather wary of such things, and wonder if that might have been partly what was putting people off as well- albeit on an unconscious level.