Tag: news
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King of West African tribe returns to landscaping job in Canada
Vancouver residents looking to hire some landscaping help this fall could end up with royalty tending to their hedges and bagging up leaves...
Jeff Lagerquist (CTV News) -
When your headline takes up half the page
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In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me.
So sorry about Cecil.
Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe?
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Oxford University fundraising reaches £2bn [x-post /r/unitedkingdom]
A University of Oxford campaign to raise funds for teaching and research has raised £2bn, it has been announced.
The institution began raising money towards new scholarships, academic posts, programmes, buildings and facilities in August 2004.
The sum stands at £2,012,571,521 but the university has now set itself a new target of £3bn.
Vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton called … -
![Image representing post: Quakers: The Faith Forgotten In Its Hometown [BBC News]](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2015/04/82482187_26661821-976x480.jpg#12171)
Quakers: The Faith Forgotten In Its Hometown [BBC News]
It was the faith of two US presidents and several prominent UK industrialists, yet the origins of the Quaker religion are little known today by people living in the English town where it began. However, a new heritage trail targeting the American tourist market is aiming to change that.
In 1647, George Fox, a … -
Normally-respectable news provider the BBC interviews "terrorist puppet?". WTF, BBC?
AltTerrorist puppet
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TIL that "Lawnchair" Larry Walters, who flew to 16,000 feet using weather balloons tied to a lawn chair in 1982, shot himself eleven years later.
LARRY WALTERS FOUND FAME AT 16.000 feet. On July 2,1982, the 33-year-old truck driver rigged 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair in San Pedro, Calif., and, as friends looked on in wondrous support, lifted off. The sight of Walters floating in the sky shocked pilots, who radioed perplexed local air-traffic controllers. Walters …
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Just One Q
With the recent announcement that his friend Jimmy and his ex- Claire are engaged, Dan realises that he might somebody become the only person in the world with his surname.
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TIL that more than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday, and nobody's sure why
A study by Swiss researchers has generated a startling statistic - you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year. But why should that be?
As the researchers put it, "birthdays… appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected ."
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TIL that the Malaysian government is one of few who HAVEN'T asked Google to censor satellite photos of sensitive areas, because they feel that to do so would make it MORE obvious where the sensitive areas are!
MALAYSIA will not ask Google Earth to blur images of the country’s military facilities to avoid terrorist attacks. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said doing so would indirectly pin-point their location anyway.
"The difference in, or lack of, pixelation of images of the military facilities compared to the surrounding areas will make it easy for … -
London's Olympic "Missile Defence"
As Britain prepares to increase anti-terror measures for the 2012 Olympic Games, Dan observes that putting missile bases into the capital city isn't necessarily the smartest decision.
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Showing Some Pride
Dan, Paul, and Ruth take part in Oxford Pride, and Dan and Paul are caught at the parade by a reporter and photographer for the Oxford Mail.
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Fox News on IPv6
Journalists continue to misrepresent and generally fuck up the public's understanding of the future of the Internet, and Dan simply can't help himself but to try to put them right.
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Cerrie Burnell - All About Me
This morning, I saw the BBC News Magazine article about Cerrie Burnell, who's apparently a children's television presenter (I'd never heard of her before, but that doesn't mean anything - I can't remember the last time I watched any kids' TV). The article centres on the fact that Cerrie was born without a right hand …
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OMG Child Pr0n (or is it?)
What a mess this is turning into! I am of course referring to the UK-wide internet censorship of a Wikipedia page (the one about the Scorpions album, Virgin Killer - if that last link doesn't work, you're among those affected).
The thinking is, according to the Internet Watch Foundation, that the cover of the 1976 album …