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Excellent website needs excellent writer/editor
BestTreatments, the site that provides accurate information on what health stuff works and what doesn’t, is looking for an editor. It’s a permanent position based in central London. You will write, edit and help to commission material, taking responsibility for sign-off through to publication and liaising with key contacts including clinical experts, colleagues and freelancers.…
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Spam slogans that probably won’t take off
From a Viagra spam email: “To protrude and serve!”
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Mac users “less modest, and more assured of their own superiority”
One for the Mac haters: Mac users are more open minded and liberal than the rest of the population, but they’re less modest and have a bit of a superiority complex. So says Mindset Media, via The Inquirer.
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It’s official: clowns are scary
Clowns are too scary for kids in hospital and are not the best decoration for children’s wards, according to new research. A survey found that decorating wards with images of clowns was more likely to frighten young patients than cheer them up. I’m only posting this so I can quote Jack Handey. To me, clowns aren’t…
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ISPs versus the BPI. This could prove interesting
ISPA, the UK trade association for ISPs, has nominated the British Phonographic Industry for its Villain of the Year award. The nomination is “For its heavy handed approach against consumers rather than engaging in constructive dialogue with the Internet industry when dealing with filesharing.” David Cameron gets a nomination too, “For buddying up with the…
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves, again
Astrological Magazine, via Fark: Â We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the publication of The Astrological Magazine will cease with the December 2007 issue.
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Video downloads: we need 27-hour days
An excellent proposal from the New York Times (via Daring Fireball): Typically, you get 24 hours to watch your on-demand movie. Here’s what happens time and again to my wife and me. We get the kids down, and about 8, we click an on-demand movie to watch. I get sleepy by 9:30 (I work hard,…
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From the “no shit, Sherlock” files: post-pub crime reduced by cunning “extra police” plan
VIOLENT incidents in Glasgow city centre are on the decrease after the number of police patrols in the area on Friday and Saturday nights tripled. Stabbings and serious assaults fell in almost every part of the central nightlife zone, according to official figures. Full story at the Evening Times.
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Woman stabbed, shot, attacked and set on fire – in different incidents – is either very unlucky or a fraudster
Via Fark: A Davenport woman who reported being stabbed, shot and attacked, and whose camper was set on fire, has been charged with making false reports and insurance fraud. Full story here.
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Apple keynote: gadget lust a-plenty
Razor-thin laptop, wireless network storage… nice. I don’t see much point in regurgitating the keynote, but I do fancy the £1,199 MacBook Air (£2,028 if you want a solid state drive) and Time Capsule (the £329, 1 terabyte version). Revised Apple TV looks nifty too, although it wasn’t clear whether the “all the studios are…