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A coder has developed a very efficient way of checking out who’s changing Wikipedia – and some of those edits might make you think twice about how much you trust open-source facts…
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Follow up to the ‘Who’s editing Wikipedia’ story, with readers tracking down some of the worst offenders
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T-shirt subscription service where the designs are all inspired by the news – site is a little irritating as it changes the size of your browser window
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Another William Gibson interview; as it’s a Sunday magazine piece there’s a decent overview of his career to date stitched into discussion of the new book
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Article on China’s ability to clone popular branded technology; only skimmed it, looks interesting
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Excellent analysis on why CNN’s redesign, which places its faith in ‘quiet structure’ is a real winner
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Not a single one involves Hello Kitty. Robots and other cute things are strongly represented, though.
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Japan’s interest in robots goes waaaaay back – check out these pics from a traditional Japanese festival, complete with massive automaton
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Magma has opened a second store selling nicely designed stuff rather than books about nicely designed stuff; will have to check that out when i get a moment off…
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Only speed-read this, but I love visualisation of text, so this essay on a colourful, circular approach looks fun
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All about the CIA’s Black Sites. Deeply disturbing.
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Yes, yes, super awesome is a horrible headline, but when the page tells you how to make your own version of A Scanner Darkly and the Scarface poster, you should stop complaining
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Long but fantastic extract from a new book examing the role of emotion in voting decisions; part two is particularly good for its in depth analysis of two campaign TV adds, and how Gore should have dealt with Dubya
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Shame it’s only a prototype, this is a brilliant idea for making a plug socket extender look good
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Great set of photos from the islands that inspired Darwin
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All the news we can look forward to from the barren spell that is inevitably the month of August: “There was jubilation for a set of triplets from the home counties, who each got 14 A-grades and will all be heading to Oxbridge, followed by careers in hedg
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