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Profile of a Cambodian marathon runner who lives on $50 a month, from a nice series of profiles of athletes “heading to the Olympics despite huge obstacles.” … gulfstream/2485
Really weak, meandering justification for why the BBC initialy used the word “terrorist” in 7/7 reports but now don’t. gulfstream/1803
BBC Lomo documentary to air 19th February. Site has some very odd videos of random people describing Lomos: “Gnome,” “Biscuits.” Several photos … gulfstream/1036
"Williams's university fails quiz challenge" (from BBC News Scotland). I just love these parochial news stories. "The St Andrews team ... … gulfstream/560
The declining shock-value of fuck. Some miscellaneous quotes: “Ethnic slurs are regarded as the taboo,” agrees Ayto. “Nigger is … gulfstream/972
Lonely Planet—the Australian publisher of travel guides—has been sold to BBC Worldwide, the publishing arm of the BBC. gulfstream/2337
Bush and Kerry answer science policy questions—not very informatively, as it happens. (Horrible Flash/HTML version.) The BBC has a rather … gulfstream/1549
“Australians hold anti-war rallies.” 1. However messy Iraq might be, the situation doesn’t seem to have reached the level of war. Were … gulfstream/1568
Good laconic Aussie tells a BBC reporter about his drunken efforts to catch a 4.5" bronze whaler shark by hand. “Have any of yous got a knife, eh? ... … gulfstream/2233
Lt. Col. Tim Collins’s address to the Royal Irish Regiment’s 1st Battalion. c.f. Henry V’s St. Crispin’s Day speech. (Curiously, there’s … gulfstream/1101
UK government advisory council recommends that cannabis "be reclassified from a class B narcotic to a class C." (How does the media spin stories? … gulfstream/694
Photos of Somalian pirates. The BBC claims that the captured pirates often aren’t punished, mostly because international law makes doing so difficult. gulfstream/2600
(pdf, French) The apology of Societe Generale chairman Daniel Bouton. A BBC news story translated one sentence as “This situation is perfectly unacceptable,” … gulfstream/2384
NY Times’s “Global Edition—; replaces the International Herald Tribune. Still rather US-centric though (compared to, say, the BBC’s international … gulfstream/2608
Live geographic traffic stats for the BBC news. This is pretty sweet, despite not being very usable. (The colours that represent different traffic levels … gulfstream/2137
Deaf couple wants to have deaf children. (Interesting: how the other unusual attribute of the couple is dealt with—c.f. the National Post.) There's … gulfstream/729
Is racaille, as used by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to describe the rioters in Paris, better translated as rabble or scum? Sarkozy’s racaille … gulfstream/1874
A BBC TV show locks nine volunteers into a zoo and feeds them the sort of food our ape-like ancestors once ate, to healthy results. I wonder if a caveman … gulfstream/2211
BBC radio bloopers. Try Brian Johnston’s giggly attempt at the cricket score! gulfstream/1501
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One can not ask whether a theory reflects reality, just whether it agrees with observations. A good theory is one that explains a wide range of observations … fortune
Smokers who give up before their 35th birthday avoid almost all of the increased risk of developing cancer and other diseases. -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1211000/1211559.stm fortune
In a nation which believes, with the Founding Fathers, that every problem of human life can be solved in the law and with the descent on the state of … fortune
Mr Bush, as much of a medical outsider as any of the press, gave us the presidential assurance that the vice-president had had a precautionary procedure. That's … fortune
For it's also generally - I was going to say universally admitted, except by passionate Democrats - that Mr Gore is an unhappy looking campaigner, as … fortune
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japanese breaks pi memory record
Internet Services - Service Information
BBC News - Ten things the Philippines bus siege police got wrong
Atlas: Full API Reference
Service for searching for audio and video items across the UK (?) broadcast space.
BBC - Archive - Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine - Using physics to explain how the world works
Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram | guardian.co.uk
Infographic showing how the BBC's budget is distributed across TV, Radio, etc.
http://open.stage.bbc.co.uk/esp-service/homepage/obituary
get_iplayer | Linuxcentre
supposedly permits the download of drm-free mp4 content from the bbc.
The Old Boys' Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
diary of the headmaster of westminster school. serialised to great effect on radio 4. might want to find this again some day.
BBC - Archive - What We Wore - Homepage
Nice documentaries from the 50s and 60s about the history of fashion. Amusingly dated.
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10
The Risks Digest Volume 24: Issue 71
account of a bbc-run voting process. initially no email registration, then email registration, then abandoned.
menti.net » more bbc twitter bots
bbc world service (live real audio)
live_infent_au_nb.asx (video/x-ms-asf Object)
windows media stream of the bbc world service
BBC NEWS | Photo journal: Inside a Bolivian jail, Introduction