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7 things I did not know last week

Saturday 31 May 2008

Mediawatch-UK (organisation that monitors broadcasts for violence, sex and bad language) is the current (since 2001) name of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
One-fifth of Americans have never used email.
Border agents in the US can search your laptop or any other electronic device when you enter the country. UK customs agents search laptops too.
Chaka [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 12 May 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

How to make a stop-mo movie - Telegraph
'At Aardman (the Oscar-winning British animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Creature Comforts), we expect each animator to create one and a half seconds of footage a day.'
Outlook Export Tool
'free tool for [...]

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7 things I did not know last week

Saturday 10 May 2008

Written Thai does not separate words with spaces except in certain cases.
Streetcar (the company I hire cars by the half-hour) also has a fleet of WV Transporter vans
Madonna bites the top off Cadbury's Creme Eggs and 'sucks the good stuff out'.
People on blood-thinners should avoid broccoli, as it is high in vitamin K which helps [...]

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