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Date:Saturday Feb 07, 2009

The greatest motivation poster ever conceived? 'Keep calm and carry on'

links for 2009-02-07 • Soothing words and stiff upper lips | Magazine | BBC NEWS | Millions of copies of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster were printed on the eve of World War II, but never displayed. • ..... View Comments

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Date:Tuesday Feb 03, 2009

links for 2009-02-03 • The Matrix Runs on Windows - YouTube - From the College Humor Show; an amusing spoof of the Matrix. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:38 GMT

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Date:Wednesday Jan 14, 2009

links for 2009-01-14 • BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Czech EU art stokes controversy The latest art installation on display at the European Council building in Brussels has angered EU members with its lampoons of national stereotypes. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:45 GMT

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Date:Friday Nov 21, 2008

links for 2008-11-21 • The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis - O'Reilly Radar Excellent piece by Joseph Hellerstein, comparing the traditional, enterprise favoured, database (SQL based, Relational Databases) and the online favoured datastore (MapReduce and Hadoop). • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date / Time: / 21:02 GMT

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Date:Sunday Sep 21, 2008

links for 2008-09-20 • Public webcams at the The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to show we aren't being consumed by a black hole... • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 03:31 GMT

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Date:Sunday Sep 14, 2008

links for 2008-09-13 • The PutPlace Blog » Blog Archive » When Bad Things Happen to Good Computers A variety of "photos of melted, damaged and destroyed hardware"; unsurprisingly the punchlines in the last one... • ..... View Comments