Bela Lugosi's Dead, Jim

Unless, that is, you count the whole article as an advert: Mark Shuttleworth appears to be almost as good as Apple at getting free publicity out of journalists.

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April 11th, 2008

08:42 am

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Omnomnom
“In the future, all t-shirts will require a knowledge of 1980s video games and basic mathematical concepts.” Fantastic. See also The Boy's shirt.

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April 10th, 2008

04:57 pm

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Measuring the fine structure constant
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3515

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April 8th, 2008

01:19 pm

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Parrots
“They just sit there swearing at each other now.”

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April 2nd, 2008

01:53 pm

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...an answer that has seen him dubbed the "Lib Dem Lothario" by some, while others have reinvigorated the nickname coined by his leadership rival, Chris Huhne: "Calamity Clegg". "Shagger" would also, of course, suffice.

I'm surprised they didn't come up with “Clegg over”. I think if I were a politician I'd not have answered the question at all, personally.

Poll #1164588
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 75

Go on then, how many?

Mean: 10.70 Median: 6 Std. Dev 13.27

0	2 (3.0%)
3	24 (35.8%)
6	14 (20.9%)
9	11 (16.4%)
12	4 (6.0%)
15	2 (3.0%)
18	0 (0.0%)
21	0 (0.0%)
24	2 (3.0%)
27	0 (0.0%)
30	3 (4.5%)
33	2 (3.0%)
36	0 (0.0%)
39	0 (0.0%)
42	0 (0.0%)
45	0 (0.0%)
48	0 (0.0%)
51	0 (0.0%)
54	0 (0.0%)
57	0 (0.0%)
60	3 (4.5%)

Also:

Much more than 60
2 (6.5%)

I'm not answering that!
7 (22.6%)

I answered but I lied
10 (32.3%)

...upwards
6 (19.4%)

...downwards
3 (9.7%)

I'm embarrassed by the number
6 (19.4%)

...it's too high
3 (9.7%)

...it's too low
8 (25.8%)

I'll tell you if you tell me.
8 (25.8%)

(Choose the nearest number, except only choose 0 if that's exactly right. Slightly odd scale is due to LJ imposing a limit of 20 items. Approximations acceptable.)

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April 1st, 2008

11:42 am

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2008-04-01

So what April Fools have people seen?

Also various webcomics are fooling around; these may not make sense except to regular readers:

McAwesome's Parasailing And Chocolate Bakery

(No more please, or at least don't expect me to add them to the list above if posted after the end of April 1st!)

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March 7th, 2008

08:52 am

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Gaviscon

Why was Reckitt's opinion sought on the generic name? Surely giving former holders of legalized monopolies a lock on the introduction of generics is just asking for them to delay the process? Which are the regulatory bodies involved anyway (the article fails to name them)?

edit: The Times clarifies matters. Firstly it took the BNF three years to decide that they had the right to issue a name at all. Then the BPC were persuaded that a “detailed quality specification” was required.

Why these two things could not be done in parallel, and why an extra specification wasn't required for Reckitt's own manufacturing in the first place, isn't stated.

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February 18th, 2008

01:29 pm

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Sharia again
Introduction of Islamic Law in England

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January 17th, 2008

08:42 pm

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I'm sure MI5 are behind it really.
I am boggled to discover that someone has made an opera about Mike Corley. Review.