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The Cold War historian Robert Conquest has died. Second obituary.

The Tornado is still a useful combat aircraft.

The antirant - "What an amazing time to be alive!"

Global median income doubled between 2003 and 2013. Global income inequality declined over the same period.  Absolute poverty rates have fallen around 80%. Understanding why is very important.

I didn't get where I am today by not acknowledging the passing of one of Britain's greatest ever comic writers.

Did the early solar system have five gas giants?

Top Myths of Renaissance Martial Arts

Changing the Face of Doctor Who - an amazing collection of made-up-merchandise for the Doctors who never were. (Thanks to parrotknight.)

All 82 of Eric Cantona's goals for Manchester United. 13m10s for my favourite Cantona goal and celebration.

Windows Live Writer 11 is compatible with Windows 10...

...but you have to run it as Administrator. Odd.

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Fantasy Swords versus Real Swords

The UK has the sixth lowest average working hours in the EU, but the second highest average salary (and more holidays too). Yay!

Sky Sports now uses Football Manager.

World's oldest message in a bottle ever found finally washes up after 108 years.

College football's FWAA 75th Anniversary All-America Team. (I count 10 players who would go on to play for the Raiders at some point in their pro careers.)

Why the #WaronNerds is A War on Art.

Venezuela is close to hyperinflation.

Killing Vox Day. (Not literally...)

If I were to play in a Super Hero RPG, I'd want my PC to be 'Speedsheet'.

See where the Vikings travelled.

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19 Things You'll Only Understand If You're Absolutely Fucking Terrified of Spiders. (Like me. And don’t worry, there are no pictures of spiders in the article. And in fact, that is number 1.)

The correlation between being a Jeremy Corbyn supporter and being a conspiracy theorist nutjob.

Not one, but two fecking enormous models of the USS Missouri in Lego.

The Humanitarian Threat to Free Speech

Are "leading economists" really backing Corbynomics? No, of course not.

Ranking the 50 states of the USA in order of personal freedom. (1st: Florida; 50th New York)

What to buy the roleplayer who has everything*.

Had to happen. They're attacking roleplaying games now.

Orcs of New York. Giving a face to the Mordor diaspora in New York, one orc at a time.

OpenOffice is insecure.

* Well, in addition to a Shop on the Borderlands gift voucher…

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The Sci-Fi Airshow

Calling the new Shadow Chancellor a "nutjob" is apparently not allowed. I can think of plenty of other things to call him, but I’m guessing they’re not allowed either…

Is it really worth spending £11million per pylon to put power cables underground?

"Dear Self-Published Author: Do NOT Write Four Books a Year"...

...unless you want to make money our of writing, or get better at it.

What happens if you pour gallium on an iPhone?

It's very easy to take the piss out of Richard Murphy, so if you're going to do it, it has to be at least as funny as this.

The World's Most Influential Video Game.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed by this "fucking malarkey".

Former Bank of England macroeconomist on "People's Quantitative Easing".

That embarrassing moment when everyone finds out you had a fling with the man who is now your boss back in the 1970s.

Andros Townsend's girlfriend hilariously mistakes Football Manager screenshot for real life.

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Correct politicalness.

Does the USA really deserve a presidential race between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders? Pur-lease.

The purge begins...

Robert Lewandowski is a good striker.

Using drones to build a rope bridge.

Nigel Dodds MP saying what needed to be said about the new Shadow Chancellor.

Is Pope Francis really how he is depicted by most of the media?

Jeremy Corbyn's satisfaction rating is already abysmal.

I can relate to this.

French animal rights nutters stealing a homeless man's puppy. (I’m slightly less than 100% convinced that this is real, but if it is, then this is pretty bad.)

The interesting connection between Hillary Clinton and short-selling of pharmaceutical stocks.

Google, I have a lot of time for you, but don't get online harassers to lead your 'Online Abuse Prevention Initiative'.

Functioning 'mechanical gears' in nature. (Thank you louisedennis.)

VW is just the tip of the iceberg. Who's to blame?

"... someone said “you suck” to Anita Sarkeesian and now we have to censor the internet. "