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Japanese man thrown off US train for taking photographs

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Fewer young people using cannabis after reclassification

Ban on leaded petrol ‘has cut crime rates around the world’

London’s Congestion Fee Begets Pinched Plates

Glasgow wins race for 2014 Games

‘They are advertising vibrating cock rings on Channel Four.’

Network Monitoring Appliance Looks Below 1 Microsecond

A fun new Quirkology video: The Prediction

Viacom puts Eight Year Daily Show archive online

Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source

IFPI loses domain name

London’s 10,000 security cameras don’t reduce crime

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Marriage seeker gets short shrift
… copy of craiglist entry here

Say hello to whole life logging
… yet more reason to dump ID Cards

Schneier on the latest RIPA idiocy

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Performer gets third ear for art

Apple Users Talking Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone Locking

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… including some important evoting stuff

Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik

Virgin Digital shutdown: why you should avoid DRM like the plague

Part III of RIPA comes into force

BOFH and PFY do RISC OS

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Italy urged to go on pasta strike

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Search the Labour Party 2005 election expenses for 2005
… so you can see where your money would go if parties were state funded

Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas

Dan Hardie on the plight of the Iraqi translators: We can’t turn them away
… Chicken Yoghurt follows up here
… and a petition here

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Essex electrosensitivity study results are out
… and they’re negative

Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia

Philip Johnston’s award winning essay on the UK Labour Government’s creepy surveillance police nanny state

Man told to leave home due to surfeit of books

‘Big Brother’ plan for police to use new road cameras
… [13:20] ORG’s take on it

New Farscape Web Episodes

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… including some interesting research into face recognition technology failure rates

IT not part of Olympic bid budget

‘If…’ out on DVD

ORG’s damning report on Electronic Voting has been released
… [14:17] The Register comments on it here

Alan Johnston has been in captivity 100 days

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RPCEmu / Arculator: free Risc PC and Archimedes emulation

‘Go to work on an egg’ ad banned

EMI has DRM free sales boom
… ‘Dump the protection increase the sales’ what a surprise

US crowd beats car passenger to death

Chris Ware designed Cover for Candide

US sex-abstinence classes queried
… ‘no more likely to abstain from sex’

Ebay PS3 Suicide Watch

Government predicts one third of people will resist ID checks

Public private partnerships no panacea, report says

Amazon pushes sex toys to random punters
… hmm, the tags for this one should get my hits up :/.

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Photosynthesis may rely on Quantum Effect

Sony’s new DVD copy protection apparently doesn’t work on many players

Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into A 3D Image