4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Deep Fried Scotland - Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled. #
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : What is a Munchy Box? - The culinary minds in Scottish chip shops that brought your the deep-fried pizza have a new creation. (They can give me American nationality, but since I'm sorely tempted by this, it's clear they'll never take away my Scottish heritage) [via] #
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15 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: More from Glasgow - Fake Steve takes on the Scots: "The real winners in all of this are the phone sales reps who work for Apple in California. Until now they been given the unlucky job of trying to take orders over the phone from Scotland. They've never been able to understa #
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Real Life Comics - comic strip for August 10, 2007 - I need to get myself a t-shirt with a traffic cone on it, clearly. #
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Scotland | Review under way on voting chaos - Who would have thought that having three different voting systems (First past the post, regional list, and STV) on one ballot paper would cause confusion? Gah! #
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Rod Begbie : Flickr: Explore your geotagged photos on a Map - My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness. #
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Have Your Say: Where next for national identity? - Fascinating bitchfest on the BBC discussion site around Scottish folks not supporting England in international sporting events. Interestingly, most of the kneejerk racist comments are from the English, accusing Scots, amongst other things, of being "bitt #
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33 month ago
philgyford : John Lewis Partnership - First Openings for Waitrose in Scotland - Our local Somerfield (ex-Morrisons, ex-Safeway) is to change again, in June, into a Waitrose. Much rejoicing among Barbican residents who have clamoured for more middle-class groceries for an amusingly long time.
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plasticbag : Many of my American friends have no idea that the UK, Great Britain and England are different things. So I thought I'd link to this page on the Act of Union... - So first England and Scotland merge to become "Great Britain", and then later Great Britain merges with Ireland to become the "United Kingdom". Wales had been previously annexed in 1536...
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46 month ago
Rod Begbie : 2001 Election Map of the UK - Gradiated map of British political persuasion. Slightly flawed in that it ignores the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales (Those big patches of Tory Blue in Scotland represent the SNP seats), but gorgeous nonetheless. [via] #
plasticbag : Awesome Flash electoral map of the UK demonstrating the relative party strengths by shade - Based upon the purple maps of the USA that followed the 2004 election. Very cool. Interestingly simply use of Flash too...
Simon Willison : 2001 Election Map of the UK - Inspired by the purple US one that did the rounds a while back.
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cameron : BBC NEWS | Scotland smoking ban to go ahead - Let the european desmokification begin
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