Today's Links
- Mod
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A paper notebook that syncs to the cloud
Fill up your notebook, post it to Mod using the pre-paid shipping envelope stored in the back cover, they scan it and sync the PDFs to Dropbox, Evernote and their own web app. Clever. US-only, though.
- Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine
- Not The Onion.
- COMPUTERS, CUT-UPS AND COMBINATORY VOLVELLES, by whitney anne trettien
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An archaeology of text-generating mechanisms.
- Our Comrade The Electron
- A talk by Maciej Cegłowski.
- Robert Hood on Being David in a Techno World of Goliaths
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The minimal techno pioneer breaks down the many guises he’s taken on through his lengthy career.
- Free Philip K. Dick: Download 13 Great Science Fiction Stories
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Get acquainted with one of the great science fiction writers of our time, Philip K. Dick. Here we have gathered together 13 free stories, some in text, some in audio.
- Our long-term economic plan for Britain
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Want to find out what the Conservatives are doing for your area? Now you can!
Funny! Also: not funny.
- Reuters investigates – More about The Child Exchange
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Ongoing Reuters coverage about the online marketplace where parents offer adopted children they no longer want to raise.
- Atos ‘misled ministers’ to win lucrative contract assessing disabled for benefits
- Conspiracy and cock up. Brilliant.
- Champion tea-making brownie has a smashing time
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1984 Tea Maker of the Year. 650 proudly displayed cups and saucers. What could go wrong?
- Student fees policy likely to cost more than the system it replaced
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The proportion of graduates failing to pay back student loans is increasing at such a rate that the Treasury is approaching the point at which it will get zero financial reward from the government’s policy of tripling tuition fees to £9,000 a year.