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• The Guardian rosetta: the Datablog reference guide to nearly everything - ISO country codes, parliament, university, LAs and NHS codes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Looking for ISO country codes? This is now the place to come. We want to make it easier to map data and keep it consistent. Take a look at our reference guide to IDs, codes and names and see how you can help make it better • Get the data The actual Rosetta stone is a crucially important ancient Egyptian artifact ...
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• The Case of the 1,069 Purloined Letters

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 110
  Around eleven this morning, Gretchen let me know that my nephew, Henry Palikowski, Junior, wished to arrange for a telephone consultation today whenever I had the free time in my schedule.  I certainly had no problem with that - because while Congress sometimes stages a circus this time of year, as it is doing at the ...
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• Chinese critic on quake response gets 3 years

  
  Zichi Lorentz Artosphere — Authority: 140
  A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to three years in prison a veteran dissident who had criticized the governments response to a 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people. Huang Qi was convicted of illegally possessing state secrets by the Wuhou district court in the western city of Chengdu, his wife Zeng Li ...
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• Parents Not Being Made Paranoid Enough, Warns Charity

  
  A Tangled Rope — Authority: 429
  Another pressure group has announced that people are not being given enough contradictory advice about their lifestyles to cause sufficient amounts of unnecessary panic, or even the vital levels of doubt, worry and concern that leaves them cowed and bewildered, and therefore much easier to govern. ‘Parents are ...
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• Hey, Congressman Robert Wexler: In the EU, this would be ILLEGAL!

  
  Something better to do — Authority: 418
  November 21, 2009 Congressman Robert Wexler 2241 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Fax: (202) 225-5974 Dear Congressman Wexler, In May 2008, a letter from you to one of your supporters was forwarded to the Jews for Obama listserv with the introduction, “As you all know, Congressman Wexler has ...
  5 days ago

• Digital divide over filesharing plans

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners The governments planned crackdown on unlawful online filesharing has been attacked by privacy campaigners and internet service providers but welcomed by executives and artists in the music business. ...
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• Say no to asbos for downloaders | Charlotte Gore

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The internet is such a huge part of life that Mandelsons plans to cut people off for copyright breach is a clear restriction of liberty At 33 years old Im more Generation X than Generation X-Box. Im too old to be one of the new wave of "digital natives" whove never known life without the internet, but Im just about ...
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• David Cameron takes the biscuit with third session on mumsnet

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Tory leader wows website beloved of modern mothers and declares oatcakes (with butter and cheese) as his favourite biscuit By the time the Tory leader logged on to mumsnet with the words " Hello, this is David Cameron signing in ," there were already more than 250 questions waiting for him. Only one or two of them ...
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• Has Cameron sealed the deal with women? | Helen Wilkinson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The Conservative leader can chat about biscuits with the women on Mumsnet, but he may not be their cup of tea on policy What a difference a political generation makes. In 1997, Tony Blair and New Labour capitalised on and came to embody the gender and generational shifts sweeping Britain best symbolised by the iconic ...
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• Google Book Search Settlement

  
  Scrivener's Error — Authority: 486
  Tangent: A Short Gloss on Antitrust (1)The Settlement (in essay form)The Lawsuit (in essay form)While I was in the midst of expounding upon the antitrust implications of the GBS settlement proposals — and, indeed, whether any settlement could pass antitrust scrutiny absent legislative approval — I realized that I ...
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• ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

  
  Open Source — Authority: 596
  An Australian friend wrote yesterday with a question: I really can’t see the point of a cloud-based OS for the general user. The added cost in using it doesn’t seem worthwhile. It would take me over 6 months to upload my data at my connection speed not to mention that ISPs here in Australia have now included ...
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• Did Stephen Conroys live trial of national ISP-level Internet filtering run into trouble?

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 142
  These are images from a Wikileaks document which purports to be a 2009 Watchdog International white paper called List Management Issues When Filtering using URL Blacklists . Watchdog technology was used within a live trial of the Rudd-Conroy mandatory national ISP-level filtering of the Australian ...
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• Yahoo Hires Amber Allman as New D.C. Director of Public Affairs

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 703
  Earlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo (YHOO) was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But, the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital. After I queried the company, Yahoo confirmed that it has tapped Amber Allman , a vice president at 463 ...
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• The More You Learn, the Less You Know

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 110
  I was having lunch today at Tosca, a nice Italian bistro on F Street, and midway between the guance di maiale brasate con cannellini, ragu di shiitake e Marsala and the gettuccine alle olive con ragu di cinghiale e castagne arrosto , my cell phone rang.  It was my dear sister Rose. Rose: Tom? Tom: You were ...
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• In 24 Hours, Obama Said He Never Used Twitter, Tibet Is Part of China, and Agreed to an Interview With Fox News

  
  ninme — Authority: 480
  This has been quite the trip.
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• Not Literally “Panels of Death”

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 487
  Breaking: 2012 Republican frontrunner Sarah Palin says “death panels” neither “panels” nor “deadly” ; adds Soviet Union not really “evil.” Developing… Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet Tagged: death panels, health care, politics, Sarah Palin, Soviet Union, youre no Ronald Reagan
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• Center for Digital Democracys Jeff Chester Talks About MicroHoo and More!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 703
  While in Washington, D.C., BoomTown can’t just visit the policy wonks from Internet companies (such as my Facebook how-do-you-do here ), so I hightailed it several hundred feet and directly across Connecticut Avenue NW to visit with Jeff Chester. For those who don’t know him, Chester is the executive director of ...
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• One click to prevent child abuse

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Every social networking site should follow Bebo and add a button children can click on to report sexual abuse concerns Its 4am and youre a burglar standing in front of two houses. One of them has a burglar alarm box and security light on the wall and the other one doesnt. Which one would you choose? More than three ...
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• Twitter Users Crash Wingnut Session

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 143
  Twitter Users Crash Wingnut Organizing Session http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/18/805566/-Twitterers-Crash-Teaparty-Organizing-SessionConnecticutMan1 emailed me an unlikely and highly entertaining article posted by Warranted Wiretaps. They have obtained an exclusive mp3 file of a conference call put together by ...
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• Twitter users: young, metropolitan and angry about civil liberties

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Britains 5.5 million Twitter users are younger than average members of the public, slightly more likely to vote Labour, and distinctly more liberal, according to a survey published today. They are also more likely to live in London, less likely to live in the north of England, and marginally more likely to belong to ...
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