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  1. Please BBC news, stop. No need for this: http://tinyurl.com/ljmad4 "Apps as big if not bigger than the internet". WTF? In girth? Inside leg?
  2. " We need to transfer files from one computer to another and the only method we have is to use a floppy diskette as a ferry."
  3. Looking at @threedaymonk's awesome http://kill-or-cure.heroku...., one wonders what reading the Mail every day would do to one's sanity.
  4. Have now been ill for what seems like months. On the plus side, am allowed to wear my special malingering pyjamas.
  5. Hmm, Home secretary says 'swine flu worse than terrorism.' Which country shall we invade this time? #perpetualwar
  6. Sigh, poor enviro-dilemma article from the Guardian: http://bit.ly/ZAdoy "Elongated till receipts"? Um. right.
  7. Ahh. Memories of typing in BASIC code from magazines. http://www.atariarchives.or...
  8. Had forgotten just how funny the http://www.pretendoffice.co.uk mailing lists are: http://www.pretendoffice.co...
  9. "Humans won't pay to watch dinosaurs ride motocross bikes forever." Hmm. Not sure. http://bit.ly/G1zyP
  10. I'm flabbergasted - should the BBC be publishing things like this, without comment or correction? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...
  11. What's odder: playing a text adventure game that I first owned as a VIC20 cartridge, or remembering exactly what to do at every stage?
  12. "His favourite prank was burying magnets at ... religious sites to excite compass-bearing explorers." Another thing that GPS steals from us.
  13. Truth behind Schwarzenegger: http://bit.ly/e33EH (How I wish this were true).
  14. 'Faith-based' is the most curious of euphemisms. Is it used because religious <blank> is often completed by fanatic, war or nutter?
  15. Apropos the moon landings: 'any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology'.
  16. How long would I need to loiter with an RFID scanner in Heathrow to get the passport details of someone biometrically similar enough to me?
  17. We've been trying to buy only stuff that will last. It's much more broadly difficult than avoiding Ikea: http://bit.ly/WtU5R
  18. All this talk about newspapers charging micropayments and the like misses completely that now readers want to link to news and share it.
  19. Oh noes - some of the police are using witchcraft to get promotions. Or not. http://bit.ly/17rvCn
  20. Spot the difference: http://bit.ly/WaVfC (Guardian) http://tinyurl.com/nnzuwb (Telegraph). Did the Telegraph not know who the panellist was?