The top 10 reads: how many have you ploughed through?

Source: Dunstable Today

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has been voted as the favourite book by people in the South East according to new research. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis takes second spot followed by Nineteen Eighty ...
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Imprisoning the consumer behind a digital firewall

Source: The Hindu

By introducing Digital Rights Management, the amended Copyright Act could compromise the legitimate rights of customers and stifle innovation The Lok Sabha passed the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2012 on Tuesday and ...
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Comment on 5 qualifications The New York Times should require of its next public editor by Anonymous

Source: Poynter (Romensko)

I’m curious as to what you mean by using age as a diversity discriminator. The only legally protected age class is “over 40.” Thus, a company can’t restrict their search to individuals younger than forty, and certainly can’t be perceived as having done s ...
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Orwell's 1984: Similarities and Difference Between Oceania and the Usa

Source: Essay Depot

This paper will discuss the similarities and differences between the Oceanic society of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the society of the United States. First I will talk about the similarities and then I will finish off with the diffe ...
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Booker: About the euro, and global warming, it turns out the ‘thought criminals’ were right

Source: Junk Science

The othodox dogma about the EU and about climate change is rapidly collapsing Two adjacent items in last Monday’s Daily Telegraph highlighted what has become one of the more prominent features of British life. ...
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How to resist Big Brother 2.0 — Don Tapscott

Source: The Malaysian Insider

MAY 20 — As the Net becomes the basis for commerce, work, entertainment, healthcare, learning and much human discourse, each of us is leaving a trail of digital crumbs as we spend a growing portion of our day ...
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On the euro, and on global warming, it turns out the 'thought criminals' were right

Source: The Telegraph UK

Two adjacent items in last Monday’s Daily Telegraph highlighted what has become one of the more prominent features of British life. In one, Cristina Odone described how she was asked to speak in favour of marriage at a conference arranged by th ...
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Christopher Booker: On the euro, and on global warming, it turns out the 'thought criminals' were right.

Source: Climate Realists

Heretical thoughts about the EU and about climate change, long-suppressed, are becoming the received wisdom. Two adjacent items in last Monday’s Daily Telegraph highlighted what has become one of the more prominent features of British life. In ...
Full article at: Climate Realists  More like this  6 days ago, 1:20pm CDT

No better escape than a trip to the end of the world

Source: The Independent

Cinemagoers, it seems, are obsessed with the impending downfall of mankind. Since Fritz Lang's Metropolis imagined a cheerless post-industrialisation future in 1927, Hollywood has churned out films detailing our demise by the bucket- ...
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