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[philmophlegm]

Top Ten Cars You've Probably Never Heard Of (Courtesy of wellinghall)

Alpha Nerding (so true andrewducker, so true...)

Where do the blocks in Tetris come from?

Note to Shell: If you're going to run a public photo competition, you should probably keep an eye on the photos being uploaded...

Highest UK population growth ever

First look at Microsoft Office 2013

What does it tell us that the French for fair play is "le fair-play"? (Not that much actually.)

You think people opposed to vaccinations in this country are nutters? You should see their counterparts in Pakistan...

Scottish targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming will be missed because it's been too cold. How does this news story miss the irony?

Rolls-Royce jet engine replica made out of Lego

Why are the worst European economies in catholic or orthodox countries and the better ones in protestant countries?

How private education works in Sweden

Great article in Der Spiegel that pretty accurately reflects my views on both London and the Olympics.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

That Shell thing is a hoax, it was created as campaigning tool (I think by Greenpeace). There are associated hoax twitter and facebook accounts as well.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! Well done for telling them where to go with their cold-call begging then!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's quite how I feel about it. On the one hand, I dislike the poor ethics of tricking people with a site like that, and I am not sure it gets the message over in the best way.

On the other hand, if they had just set up a 'save the arctic' campaign carefully explaining why they feel Shell drilling for oil in the arctic is a bad idea, probably very few people would ever see it.

I am inclined to think they probably have a good point, even if I'm not enthused about the way they have made it. :-/ I wish issues discussed without hysteria would get more attention.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Der Spiegel: Word.

[chainmailmaiden]

Couldn't agree more!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Pleased to be of service :-)