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Being somewhat averse to blowing up balloons, never mind anything else, I was somewhat surprised to wake up this morning as an extremist:

Mr Clegg said the Lib Dems vision of Home Rule represented the views of the Scottish people and argued that those who were for independence, or keeping the current constitutional settlement, were extremists.
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Strange Maps is an interesting blog to follow. I found today's entry particularly interesting; it's a visualisation of the geographic distribution of the usage of different languages on Twitter. It tells us something not just about where people are using their native languages on the Internet, but also where Twitter itself's in use.

Yesterday I left Stagecoach £42 poorer after paying for my four-weekly pass. That is, it’s Stagecoach that were poorer, not I, which is the right way around. The cost of my pass has dropped from £133 to £91, which I am finding pretty difficult to complain about.

The price of my commute has gone up quite a bit over the last few years, but this ( Read more... )

There’s an interesting story on the BBC web site about someone mapping the Scottish watershed - a line from north to south (or, of course, if you prefer, vice versa), on either side of which water will flow either into the Atlantic or the North Sea. One would think this would be well known geographical information in a developed country, but ( Read more... )