Boing Boing:
Britain is full of license-plate cameras, cameras used to send you tickets if you're caught speeding, or driving in the bus-lane, or entering London's "congestion-charge zone" without paying the daily fee for driving in central London. And because of Chekhov's first law of narrative ("a gun on the mantelpiece in act one wil (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his wayThe Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day – novels, poems, stories, translations, as well as musical scores – it was this strange, uneven and som (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
As a Belgian, I am shocked by the disinformation around the candidacy and person of Mr Van Rompuy, especially by the British tabloids (The great EU stitch-up, 20 November). Their comments are an insult. Van Rompuy is not to be an executive president like the US president; he is the chairman, a consensus-builder of a Europe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
He left Britain after his girlfriend Rachel Nickell was murdered 17 years ago, to escape the trauma and the press. This week André Hanscombe returned – to force the police to face their mistakesThe picture is attractive – pale skin, a drift of blonde hair, a wide, imperfect smile that makes her approachable and young, fragi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
New injunctions against gangs and action on wheelclampers included in Alan Johnson's crime billNew antisocial behaviour injunctions – dubbed gangbos – aimed at tackling teenage gang members as young as 14 are to be introduced as part of the new crime and security bill, the home secretary disclosed yesterday.The civil injunc (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Giles Foden is carried along by a holistic view of the salmon's lifecycleWhen Richard Shelton's first book The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge was published in 2004 it was acclaimed by Telegraph and Guardian readers alike. The main reason for its cross-cultural appeal was the engaging prose style in which Shelton d (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The pharmaceutical industry has taken almost two years to disseminate important informationOnce your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken by millions of people, how long do you think it would take for that change to be implemented?In Febru (Read More)
The Guardian:
Guardian Work's exposé of blacklisting in the construction industry has led to draft legislation, but many workers whose details were kept on file are still sufferingSeventeen months after Guardian Work exposed blacklisting in the construction industry, new laws outlawing the practice are set to come into force, and next we (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - The District:
A former State Department official and his wife admitted in federal court Friday that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades, receiving their coded instructions over a shortwave radio and passing along information to intelligence operatives in "dead drops" and "hand-to-hand" passes.
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guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
It's good news that the government is considering how to make mapping data freely available under public sector information regulations (A new landscape unfolds, Technology, 17 November). But care must be taken to make sure that the only data which is made available is data which is "owned" by government as a necessary mono (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Editorials:
THE MOST interesting question President Obama fielded in China came over the Internet, via the U.S. Embassy, from a Chinese citizen who asked, "Do you know of the firewall? Should we be able to use Twitter freely?" In response, Mr. Obama, speaking at a town hall in Shanghai, did not directly address China's massive Internet (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- As it gets ready to officially take ownership of BusinessWeek magazine, Bloomberg is looking for help with global branding and advertising across its portfolio of media properties.In a request for information sent out to agencies, Bloomberg said it's looking to establish an agency-of-record agreement (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Of all the extraordinary bets struck on the exchange, these are the ones that will live on in punting loreFor the purists, today's big race at Haydock is the Lancashire Chase. You may never have heard of such a race title, but it exists - it is the official title given to the Betfair Chase as a kind of insurance against the (Read More)
The Guardian:
After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vitalOne man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin, told a parliamentary committee in Ottawa that all detainees handed over to the Afghanistan governmen (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Lampard travels for 'placenta treatment' in Serbia • Arsène Wenger supports alternative therapiesFrank Lampard has become the latest Premier League player to visit the Serbian doctor Marijana Kovacevic as he tries to speed his recovery from the thigh tear suffered while on England duty.The midfielder had initially been ru (Read More)