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Ash tree set for extinction in Europe(bbc.co.uk)
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How to make the perfect cup of tea (4 min audio)(bbc.co.uk)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
There's also VPaint, an open source animation program (currently in beta) for Windows and Mac. The description on their site: "VPaint is an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a techno
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
"Animation is not 'extremely' important and never has been or how would we have survived all these years?" Animation definitely has an important role to play in interface design and it's been used in applications
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360 degree TV show from the BBC(youtube.com)
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Serif's Affinity apps are coming to Windows(affinity.serif.com)
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How can Lidl sell jeans for £5.99? ($9/€8)(theguardian.com)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
" I always laugh when I see "fair trade coffee". Is it really fair trade? Do most people care about it? " Some people do care. Enough for an ever-growing range of products that are part of the Fairtrade scheme. In the UK
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
" Google uses HTTPS...Google is seriously helping to advance computer security as a whole " I've always felt that Google sees privacy solely or largely through the lens of security. You can't have privacy without securit
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
" Teletext is a surprisingly good internet substitute for basic information consumption " I agree. Teletext feels like it would have been a perfect service for a mobile phone. In the UK, the BBC stopped transmission of their telet
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The women fighting back after acid attacks(bbc.co.uk)
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Digital News Report 2015(digitalnewsreport.org)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
Here's the link to the findings on the Action for Sugar website where you can see the full list of drinks included in their survey: http://www.actiononsugar.org/News%20Centre/Surveys%20/2016/1... For com
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The fight for a third-best smartphone OS has been lost. By everyone(arstechnica.com)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
" apple is actually ahead of the curve here " I'd argue that old-fashioned desktop PCs were (and are) ahead of the curve. No need to wastefully throw everything away, just upgrade the components you want. A reasonable level o
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
ChromeOS is mostly a cloud-based operating system. Although, there is an offline mode, apps and data reside in the 'cloud' (Google's servers). Cloud-based software makes it very easy to track users. To use ChromeOS you must s
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
"I'd also like to see a similar comparison for an average desktop Linux installation, OS X installation" I agree. I'd really like to see an analysis of Android and ChromeOS. I'm glad to see Microsoft in the spotli
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What would happen if an entire nation stopped eating meat?(vice.com)
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Bill Gates on Desert Islands Discs (audio)(bbc.co.uk)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
Yes, sorry. Corrected :-)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
For those in the UK, the available Government datasets are published on http://www.data.gov.uk The datasets are not public domain, but licensed under the Open Government Licence (which allows you to use and adapt the data for co
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
The Open University has a beginner's introduction to Babylonian Mathematics http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=... Edit: Here's an audio interview with Mathieu Ossendri
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
This is no surprise to anyone in the UK. We have the highest fares in Europe[1]. Although you can buy tickets in advance at certain off-peak times for less, it's not always practical or convenient. The problem is that peak fares can ri
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The Nutcracker in 360 degrees(youtube.com)
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Are there good and bad sugars?(bbc.co.uk)
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Map of rail station usage in the UK: 1997 – 2015(bettertransport.org.uk)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
There's also this 6 minute FT podcast on the worst corporate guff for 2015. McKinsey, Starbucks, Twitter, Alphabet all get a mention http://podcast.ft.com/2016/01/04/time-to-get-stoked-by-the-y... And pe
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Guffipedia: business jargon and corporate nonsense(ig.ft.com)
1 points by chestnut-tree 11y ago|1 comments
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Making a standard media player for Android(bbc.co.uk)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
Interesting. In the UK, the word Nimrod is recognised (if at all) as a piece of classical music by the British composer Edward Elgar (from his work Enigma Variations) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE

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