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IanYorston

  1. "Twitter has made me" - Graham Linehan - Excellent article on social networks, internet distractions and pirates - gu.com/p/37pzd/tw
  2. Web War II: What a future cyberwar will look like - bbc.in/JWGWxx #CyberWars
  3. "Flame" - Massive international cyber-attack - 20MB payload - screen-shots, Bluetooth, audio, keylogging - bbc.in/JwCDbe #CyberWars
  4. The changing role of the subeditor - gu.com/p/37qa8/tw via @guardian
  5. Developing Agile Software - Principles behind the Agile Manifesto - agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
  6. A coalition against the coalition. NUT and NASUWT teachers' unions launch threat of joint industrial-action. - bbc.in/K2ZXhv
  7. #GAFA - Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon - all now rumored to be working on the next generation smart device. - bbc.in/LxceGa
  8. China's Weibo microblog introduces user contracts. We need to be wary of calls for something similar. bbc.in/LAnlh0 #1984 #BigBrother
  9. Interesting (but slightly self-serving) parental Viewpoint on the Laura Johnson case - "Where did we go wrong?" - bbc.in/KAfHGK
  10. 'Olympic rings' molecule olympicene in striking nanometre image - pentacene, five linked hexagonal rings of carbon - bbc.in/LvSgeY
  11. Finding Out What a Star Is Made Of With Spectroscopy - thethoughtstash.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/fin… #TM5
  12. London-based? Like Ideas? Watched @TEDtalks? Already found @5x15stories? Now try @TheLostLectures...
  13. Fire-chasing beetles sense infrared radiation from fires, hundreds of kilometres away - ow.ly/1MPVMA via @edyong209 #Sensors #Tech
  14. Quilts inspired by the Large Hadron Collider... #LHC #ATLAS #CMS #CERN pinterest.com/pin/1327155202… via @jonmbutterworth