I’m not sure I understand why it’s OK to break the law by ignoring a direct court order to reveal trivial details of a person’s life but not OK to break the law by accessing an open voicemail system to reveal trivial details of a person’s life.
The first piece about cancer that I have read that makes any sense to me
Next door’s puppies
iPad 2 Hands-on
Welcome to the Big Society, where you get your very own library and free school, but only if you can afford your own books and private tutors already.
Robbie Savage
The exemption applies solely to “large and medium companies”: it is not available for smaller firms. The government says it expects “large financial services companies to make the greatest use of the exemption regime”. The main beneficiaries, in other words, will be the banks.
Word Lens - this is totally amazing
tl;dr: long rambling story about how the kindness of strangers, particularly folks from south of the border, forced me to be more helpful on the road and in life in general. I am sure it won’t be as meaningful to anyone else but it was seriously the highlight of my 2010.
Tech Support (via XKCD)
Nice infographic (although that word always makes me think of genutainment)
Gotta love Twitter (read from the bottom upwards)
So people who eat lots of chocolate are more depressive?
Personally I think that’s a very presumptive headline. It implies chocolate causes depression.
Within the article they say they’re not sure if it’s causation or just correlation. If the chocolate makes you depressed, or if your underlying depression makes you want to eat chocolate.
But the headline suggests that it’s pretty clear - chocolate makes you depressed. Bad writing all round.
See also cannabis and schizophrenia
A St Georges Day list - great things about England:
Where the streets are cold and lonely ...
