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Battlestar Galactica Dangers #1 – Watching on a laptop while driving – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7612304.stm

My friend Graham: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7724873.stm

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." -Brilliant Bushisms – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7809160.stm

BBC deletes Trafigura story on toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast after legal threats – http://bit.ly/8Bik9r

The photograph that defined the class divide – http://bit.ly/da7FtD

Stuxnet worm 'targeted high-value Iranian assets' – http://bbc.in/aPOAzl

brilliant. 99p stores respond to 'middle class' requests for balsamic vinegar and sun dried tomato – http://bbc.in/h73tMK

The largest mafia crackdown in the history of the FBI. http://bbc.in/iaPgpA

A fundamental change to the way units are defined is afoot. http://bbc.in/dE9gil

Nick Clegg’s inaccessible press event at #Davos http://reut.rs/g5nohN

RT @WackJacq: Our ‘Jack Bauer’ Culture: Eliminating the Ticking Time Bomb Exception to Torture http://bit.ly/i0N1XX – @SSRN

Emerging markets lose billions as investors pull out – http://bbc.in/f6Q82N

Quite amusing: Francis Maude on The Big Society – http://bit.ly/eCfj65

More than £5m was paid out in in consultancy fees over the planned Severn Estuary barrage http://bbc.in/etRR67

Christchurch Quake: Ice chunks fall from Tasman Glacier – http://bbc.in/hbju7c

Blade Runner Sequel (or Prequel) Press Release – http://on.io9.com/hF3VTk

Mark Lawson Talks To David Mitchell – http://bbc.in/eS8P4q – @RealDMitchell

I am a big fan of Dave Wellbeck, the Olympic Hero in Twenty Twelve – Episode 4 http://bbc.in/dXziHN

UK Insurer LV= estimates that the cost of raising a child to the age of 21 now totals more than £210,000 –http://bbc.in/ltZrCB

RT @MattRudd: James Murdoch has just announced that the News of the World will have its last issue on Sunday.

Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy – http://bbc.in/ow4Zqy

Alvin Hall: The generation poorer than their parents – http://bbc.in/oGp3xh

BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing? http://bbc.in/qYnE8L

A Profile of Rupert Murdoch in BBC archive footage – http://t.co/pGYMoWh

BBC News Channel: James Murdoch is being questioned by the culture select committee for the second time http://t.co/iFkPJjFm

Your Two Weeks of Fame and Your Grandmother's: Did celebrity last longer in 1929, 1992 or 2009? http://t.co/xDHNpPHY #tcm

RT @arusbridger: James Murdoch at #leveson should be deeply interesting. Follow it live http://t.co/9YTL9Hxc

You'd think that #Coulson accidentally got the job #leveson

#Leveson enquiry is the gift that keeps on giving

This is going to be worth a watch: Tony Blair at #Leveson – http://t.co/2VSnkKph

Maybe Quasi-Judicial just means not-Judicial #leveson

You have to question #bbc neutrality when they fail to cover such an important story #nodashforgas

RT @lboroCRCC: Our latest analysis of the #GeneralElection media campaign (5 – 17 May 2017) https://t.co/AeWKzgiz1J #GE2017 #comms https:/…

RT @cpeedell: If you think that the @BBCNews should have a rule that Think Tanks can only appear on the BBC after disclosure of their main…

Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Radio Symphony – Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Trailer) https://t.co/ogWCMwvN5h

RT @johannhari101: A society of deeply lonely people, who have been taught that life is about money & showing off, who don't ever get out i…

@virginmedia – crazy: 2 more scam calls this morning: 1 from "BT" & 1 from 'Virgin Media' both knew my broadband is down. The 1st hung up when challenged., 2nd confessed immediately & after I suggested they might want to find a better job, asked me for one! @MartinSLewis 1/2

According to the media today has been dubbed #SuperThursday but no one seems to want to take the credit for who did the dubbing.

Rejected: David Attenborough’s job application to the BBC in 1952. https://t.co/1Utzphf5c0

So I had this dream. I was desperate for the loo as I plummeted down a chasm only to realise I was late for the exam tomorrow & naked in front of the whole class who were chasing me & Bill Clinton through a maze in a fast car that careened off a cliff into a lake I drowned in.

So many scammers calling from '@VirginMedia Technical Support' at the moment. 5 in 24 hours. I've taken to suggesting they might think about getting a different job but heartbreaking to get the response, 'can you give me one?' It's basically #organisedcrime built on #poverty

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