• DrLoser: Birmingham
  Doubleday speaks.
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• Disaster at Xichang
  The worst space launch accident in history.
  (tags: space )
• Request for Blogs, Answered
  Alex Harrowell's reading list.
  (tags: blogs )
• Microsoft just exposed email's ugliest secret
  They're reading your hotmail.
  (tags: internet privacy )
• Twitter usage SOARS in Turkey
  The ban that failed.
  (tags: twitter turkey )
• The definitive guide to ( Read more... )

• A sinister conspiracy to inform
  Yet more utter nonsense from the UK eurosceptic media.
  (tags: eu ukpolitics )
• CHART: How many popes are alive at any given time?
  Misses out the Copts, and various schismatic interludes.
  (tags: Pope )
• The troubling things I learned when I re-reported Bob Woodward’s book on John Belushii
  The strengths and weaknesses of ( Read more... )

Why would one want or use a tumblr account?

Three stories that have hit my radar screen in the last few days about the rights and obligations of internet users.

1) bridge_troll got fired for blogging about his workplace, describing his employers as "mental" and "Jesus freaks" on his first day in the job. I'm afraid my sympathy is limited, and I am astonished that he is astonished that his ex-employers ( Read more... )

This news is almost a month old; I missed it while I was away. But La Petite Anglaise finally won her case for unlawful dismissal against the accountants who fired her for blogging when her employers declined to appeal the judgement against them. Those of you who read French and have time to enjoy are encouraged to read Eolas' dissection of the ( Read more... )

Brussels Comment, now syndicated to livejournal at bruxcomment.

Nice to see a few more people popping up on the friends notifications recently - feel free to introduce yourselves below, and maybe tell me how you found me.

Checking out whose blogrolls I am on (other than Livejournal) and there are more than I thought. Some I know (Making Light, A Fistful of Euros, Old Rottenhat, The Genre Files, The Early Days ( Read more... )

At least the first round: see her own jubilant entry and Eolas' slightly greater detail (in French). Congratulations to her and Tadpole.

If you don't know what this is about see my earlier coverage here.

Nice to meet up with various local bloggers last night - thanks to brightglance for facilitating.

Now I need to add lawyrsgunsmoney, unfogged and jackmormonblog to my feeds...