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Is dawdling on a pelican crossing illegal?

Published May 5, 2010

A man in Dorset is particularly peeved that trucks are using the A35 through his village, and has took it upon himself to stage a unique protest – by repeatedly using a pelican crossing.  Leading to the question Is dawdling on a pelican crossing illegal?.  Opinion suggests that it would be a harsh court that would [...]

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Vettel takes Malaysian Grand Prix

Published April 4, 2010

In what I would class as a largely processional race, Vettel took victory at Sepang – just ahead of teammate Webber, who he overtook off the start. Much of the finish was decided in the first couple of laps, with Hamilton outclassing Button to finish sixth ahead of Massa and then Button. Alonso was unlucky, [...]

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No violence for the Swiss

Published March 20, 2010

In a growing tradition of strange new laws, the Swiss seem to have passed a wide-ranging law that is likely to mean the banning of sales of all violent video games (where violence is harm to another creature, so potentially any game..)

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Do you know what your smartphone is doing?

Published March 20, 2010

Well do you? Which have issued an advisory against overseas smart phone usage, stating that you can run up huge bills unknowingly through data roaming. Now at first, I thought, well, anyone with such a phone surely knows enough about it not to do anything so stupid as overseas data roaming, but then I did [...]

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Internet Visualisation

Published March 17, 2010

There’s a neat little article on Internet Visualisation on the BBC News site. It has a number of flash slides showing the most popular web sites out there (some surprises but mostly names you would know), as well as rich lists and a map of the world over time showing Internet penetration. Quite interesting. In [...]

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