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Aide alleged Levy ‘lie’ request

Watch as advertising idiocy gets caught out and commented on
... it clearly isn’t the day yet when it is no longer amusing to watch advertising agencies completely fail to Get It.

Questioning Gill Sans
... ‘In 1928, Eric Gill set about to improve on Edward Johnston’s type for the London Underground. The result was Gill Sans.’

FACT Off: It’s time to say no to F.A.C.T.
... campaigning against those patronising, unskippable anti-piracy adverts on DVDs

Berlusconi and Mills back in dock in Italy

AI system cited for unlicensed practice of law

Cash for honours: key document names Levy

Blair aide’s ‘concern over Levy’

Radio 4 documentary on The E Generation at 40

‘Safest ever’ passport is not fit for purpose

Tribute to Chris Lightfoot, 1978-2007

The Servants: a new novel by Michael Marshall Smith

Honours gag email was about Lord Levy

Diebold may be quitting the e-voting business

Manchester chosen as site for first Super Casino

Polish lace makers move into underwear

China made iPhone look-a-like appears

tubePing: Connecting London’s tube community

Apparently the SCO/IBM case is still going on, but now SCO have admitted that they might not win

Lord Levy re-arrested for attempting to pervert the course of justice

Iris use dropped in ID Card plans

Fusion reactors in 10 years claim

Internet Explorer unsafe for 284 days in 2006

Part of Russian rocket lands in Wyoming

The problem with OpenXML
... ‘not only must an interoperable OOXML implementation first acquire and reverse-engineer a 14-year old version of Microsoft Word, it must also do the same thing with a 16-year old version of WordPerfect.’

15 tips to choose a good text type

Quit [Smoking] Counter

Humble Little Ruby Book

Riverbend’s take on Saddam’s hanging / lynching

Lord Levy in abuse of tax payer’s money allegation

New Scientist compiles a list of fun materials