Month: November 2011
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Making Time
Finally at the end of a mammoth development stretch for the Three Rings project, Dan finally gets a little free time in which to play some video games.
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Banned From Facebook
Dan gets banned from Facebook, for being too awesome. Or something. He wasn't really paying attention to the reason, because he was distracted by all of the adverts and clutter that Facebook's full of, these days.
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TIL that Samwell (of "What What! In The Butt!" fame) did a far less-well-known song promoting condom use
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Live countdown to Minecraft 1.0
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Cold-call scam attempts to trick users into thinking their PC has a fault, sells them a "solution". Here's a recording.
More and more people are facing calls from companies claiming falsely that their computer is infected by a virus.
Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones had one such call and outlines how the scam works and how to avoid it.
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HilaryJC's "Guide to Reddit" - is this for real?
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"Passengers who saw a wheel fall off a plane as it took off did not immediately inform the crew, a report has said."
Passengers who saw a wheel fall off a plane as it took off did not immediately inform the crew, a report has said.
The accident happened in March on a Flybe flight from Exeter to Newcastle.
The captain returned to Exeter and used the emergency brake and "significant amounts of right rudder" … -
Etiquette
Dan and Ruth go to the theatre and perform in a play in which they are also the directors, audience, and scenery. Then things get weird.
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Goodbye Reader
After Google apply an ugly-as-sin new style and break some of his favourite features, Dan finally gives up on Google Reader and sets himself up on Tiny Tiny RSS instead.