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Archive for December, 2008

Oxford Rugby Team Black, Jew Up In Ill-Advised Larks

Oxford Rugby Team Forced to Attend “Cultural Diversity” Seminar

Wow. Wouldn’t it be hi-larious if you played for Oxford University’s under-21 rugby team and went to a society dinner dressed as a Hasidic…

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Posted by Huw Nesbitt in Other | December 14, 2008 4:07PM | 4 Comments »


McCain and Obama Web Gurus Come Together, Offer Lessons for British Politics

Last month, we took a closer look at Barack Obama’s innovative use of social media to win the American presidential election, and asked how

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Sci-tech | December 12, 2008 5:17PM | 2 Comments »


Barclay Brothers Storm Off Sark In A Big Huff After Losing Elections

Last week we had a look at wee little Sark, with its arcane laws regarding unspayed dogs and attempted takeovers by unemployed French…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Other | December 12, 2008 4:46PM | 3 Comments »


Google Starts Magazine Search, While Stack Makes Magazine-Reading Much More Pleasurable

Google Starts Magazine Search, While Stack Makes Magazine-Reading Much More Pleasurable

Google Book Search, the service that allows you to read out-of-copyright books online, and pay to read in-copyright ones, has announced it’s going

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | December 12, 2008 4:14PM | 2 Comments »


Sony Launches Home, Its Virtual World Full Of The Most Banal Parts Of Existence

Sony Launches Home, Its Virtual World Full Of The Most Banal Parts Of Existence

We’ve already seen how everyone’s staying in and playing video games now the recession has begun, and now a new tranche of lameness…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 12, 2008 2:30PM | 4 Comments »


Amazon Undercuts iTunes, Music Industry Receives “News” That No-One Pays For Music Anymore

The music industry received a “shock” earlier this week when it was told it must officially do what’s its been powerless not to do over…

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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | December 11, 2008 5:15PM | 1 Comment »


Car, Cheese Industries Get Government Bailout

Car, Cheese Industries Get Government Bailout

So first we had banks bailed out. Then guys like Adolf Merckle wanted the personal bailout treatment (not that he

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 10, 2008 1:48PM | 2 Comments »


Diary 24: Bonfire Night

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Posted by James Nash in Other | December 10, 2008 12:35PM | No Comments »


Bart Becht, Reckitt Benckiser CEO, Starts Selling Up His Shares As Part Of Global Employee Loyalty-Enforcement Scheme

Sam Zell’s Tribune Newspaper Group Files For Bankruptcy, American Media Bites Nails

Print media continues to look squarely down the barrel of a gun with the news that Tribune, the US publishing company that owns

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | December 9, 2008 1:25PM | No Comments »


Stephen Harper’s Canadian Parliament Funkier Than George Clinton’s

Canada was unusually thrust into the centre of the world politics last week when (Prices of maple syrup dropped? Beavers attacked the capital? The U.S.…

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Posted by Carmody Wilson in Other | December 8, 2008 5:16PM | 5 Comments »


TalkSport Get £20,000 Reminder Why Not To Employ Really Crass, Offensive People

TalkSport has been fined £20,000 today, thanks to rightwing nut-job James Whale (pictured in attire not befitting his age, left) telling everyone to go and…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | December 8, 2008 4:36PM | 6 Comments »