NBA Lockout: Desperation Strikes
With the NBA lockout showing no signs of sorting itself out in the near future, the players are finding alternative ways to earn a little cash. Some are keeping their hand in by playing for European teams. Some, with a canny eye on their post-trainer-squeaking career, are getting some experience of coaching with college teams. [...]
November 18, 2011
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marketing, sport
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Civil Partnerships require a verb
This morning on the Telgraph’s website, there’s an article with the headline BBC newsreader Jane Hill is to ‘marry’ a woman cameraman. Despite the awkward term ‘woman camerman’ (why not camerawoman?), there’s an issue with the word ‘marry’. It has had to be quoted, because they aren’t actually getting married. Homosexuals in the UK can’t [...]
November 16, 2011
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words
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Spirit: A Life
The Spirit rover explored the Martian landscape for over five years – more than twenty times its expected lifetime. A nice Youtuber (I’m not calling them a root vegetable) has put together a timelapse of its activities over that period. (You can see a longer, 9-minute version here. Take a coffee break. You deserve it.) [...]
November 14, 2011
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space, timelapse, videos
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Facebook – Leading the great philosophical discussions of our time
If you release a new feature that’s identical to one you removed a few months ago, is it still a new feature?
November 14, 2011
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internet, marketing
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Space station timelapse
Those pesky space persons have been at it again. Lording it over us with their views of the planet they’ve decided isn’t good enough for them.
November 13, 2011
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space, timelapse, videos
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