3 month ago
nelson : Genetic map of Europe - Beautiful visualization of variances in DNA of Europeans
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11 month ago
adamrg : Low-tech Magazine: Email in the 18th century
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43folders : Geekologie - "Life's too short for the wrong job" - _Very_ clever ads for a German job site.
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17 month ago
plasticbag : Open Technology groups want to take the BBC to the EC about its decision to go with Microsoft DRM - I'm afraid I agree - the BBC using Microsoft-only DRM in its iPlayer, even if only for a couple of years, represents massive market-deforming activity in the direction of a known monopolist player.
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18 month ago
plasticbag : The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards is about celebrating the best in European weblogs... - It's a pretty good way to see what people are writing about and to discover some new sites, and if you want to vote for me in the 'Past his best' category, that would be fine too...
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Innovation Ecosystem - What is happening in Europe that is enabling regions to start becoming low risk environments to do high risk things in, is the ascension of a class of entrepreneurs that have had success.
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23 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Running from Camera - Running from Camera: The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can. [via]
deusx : Running from Camera - "The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can."
cameron : Running from Camera - A blog featuring pictures of the author running away from his camera before it takes a picture 2 seconds later.
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24 month ago
philgyford : Caledonian Global Challenge - Caledonian Business School - Europe-based map game. I'm embarrassingly poor at even this. (via Haddock)
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24 month ago
philgyford : World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games - Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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30 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe - Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Monsters win Eurovision 2006 - Finland wins over the Eurotrash song contest
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31 month ago
Linkorama : vpod.tv Raises $5.1 Million - way to go, Rodrigo
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33 month ago
plasticbag : There's an interesting petition on public geographic data in Europe that I think most of you should sign - Free access to geographic data that the tax-payer has already subsidised heavily would create an amazing amount of creativity, and social and economic value. Web of data benefits from it muchly. Obey!
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Slate's astonishingly weird piece on Germany and 'Dinner for One' - 'British TV executives see it as fit only for foreigners, or they would rush to broadcast it themselves. Why Germany finds it so funny and the British don't is, according to Der Spiegel's Sebastian Knauer, "one of the last unsolved questions of European i
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Is Europe Loosing it's Innovative Edge? - “Entrepreneurs lack supportive networks in Europe and have to rail against structures meant to protect old wealth,†said Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext, a US-based software company. In many countries, such wealth is honoured yet new money is
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows XP N Editions - If you're wondering what the XP N Editions are like, wonder no more. I got my hands on both XP Home N and XP Pro N this week and gave them both a spin. The results were pretty uneventful
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Open Rights Group - The Open Rights Group is committed to protecting your digital rights, to fighting bad legislation both in the UK and Europe, and to fostering a grassroots community of volunteers dedicated to campaigning on digital rights issues.
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40 month ago
plasticbag : A fascinating article from the Ecologist Online about the UK's food culture and why it is the way it is... - "No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe"
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Are Brits the world's worst lovers? - It seems a little unfair to be honest. Just a little. Well, maybe not. Well okay then.
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Software patent bill thrown out which is bloody good news - "European politicians have thrown out a controversial bill that could have led to software being patented."
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42 month ago
plasticbag : Brian Walden talks about "the West" as a term that emerged in response to Communism, and suggests that without that spectre the term will soon become meaningless - Nice link found via Mr Webb which articulates nicely the emerging differences and conflicts between the major nations of the Western World
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia on the Marshall Plan - " It is acknowledged that the United States was acting in its own self-interest by aiding western Europe, but most believe the plan had an immensely beneficial effect on both Western Europe and the United States."
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