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So, it’s quick links time!

Telegraph Blogs – Daniel Hannan: The Internet is dragging Britain away from Europe and towards the Anglosphere

Brett McS sent me this one within moments of me reading an excerpt from it in The Corner. It’s an interesting and perhaps obvious point, though I think perhaps a little optimistic. And I’m not [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – North Korea joins Facebook

North Korea appears to have joined the social networking site Facebook after its Twitter account was blocked by South Korea under the country’s security laws.

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Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

NRO – K-Lo: Facebook Saves a Teacher Can it save Western civilization, too?

A University of Illinois professor who teaches Catholicism gets canned for teaching Catholicism (guess which topic) then hired again after a Facebook campaign.

Anyway I thought this was worth quoting:

“All religion is an essential part of the human story,” he tells [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Hmm, what to link to today…

Corner – Wikileaks vs. Democracy

It will take time to assess the real harm caused by this dump of some 92,000 classified documents into the public domain by Wikileaks. But as I argue this morning, the Obama administration’s warning that there would be damage seems highly credible. It’s hard [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph – Raoul Moat and the unacceptable face of Facebook

In David Cameron’s clash with Facebook we can see the key cultural question of our time, says Jenny McCartney

So, she goes from describing the elitist but responsible days of old journalism, where:

Letters to newspapers that were full of violent views, or just [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Uh oh:

Michael Wolff – What’s Really Going on Behind Murdoch’s Paywall?

My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself—who have free access to the site—are not going beyond the registration page. It’s an empty world. The wider implications of [...]

Categories: Business & Media

27b/6 – “yeah thats not what I was looking for at all.”

From: David Thorne Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.28am To: Shannon Walkley Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster Dear Shannon, It’s a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space. [...]

Categories: Catblogging

Notice: Shopping for houses sucks and I recommend no one try it. Instead, cyanide and great aunties. Trust me it’ll go smoother.

In other news, this made me pull a face and nod a lot:

Wheat & Weeds – Lament For The Sense Of Humor

Guy writes a funny piece about how soccer is ruining America. [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Proving the West cares only about the world when it means admiring itself, in the Guardian.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Is Gordon Brown Still Prime Minister?

Categories: Politics

I love these parodies. Long live fair use!

Categories: Entertainment

Thank God for Easter Week.

Categories: Food

Here. Less than inspirational Twitter handle, but hey. It’s official, at least.

Categories: Business & Media

The Dalai Lama tweets. Ahem, yer holiness.

Categories: People and Current Events

This morning RC2 shared my Tiger Woods story on her Google Reader (which gets pushed to her sidebar) and, seeing it pop up in my newsfeed, I thought I’d click through and check I spelt everything correctly. Then I got redirected to a scary referral spam page. So I called Peter in to look at [...]

Categories: Wildcard