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How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."
news  article  bbc  drm  ofcom  legal  software  technology  video  media  streaming  licensing  business  rights  hdtv  tv  politics 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Tesco garage petrol sign targeted by pranksters
"Jimmy Skillings, who spotted the prank and took a photograph, said: "I know petrol prices are a joke but this is funny."
bbc  news  tesco  humour  fuel 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
BBC News | Meerkat groups have 'traditions'
"When you're out in the field," said Dr Thornton, "if you're studying certain groups, you always set your alarm a bit later because they're consistently lazy." The new study revealed that this laziness or liveliness has a "cultural basis".
bbc  news  animals  meerkats  zoology  culture  time  sleep  research  sociology  lazy  interesting 
july 2010 by milkmiruku
A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services
"We've lived with and loved the distinctly 'web 2.0' design for a while now and it's done us proud. However, time's moved on, and in autumn last year we decided it was time to resurrect the project."
bbc  news  blog  design  internet  web  research  web2.0  language  typography  colour  ui  ux  webdesign  webdev 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
"Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts."

The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
news  bbc  article  science  research  health  brain  neuroscience  ethics  computer  medicine  belgium  uk  biology  interesting  fmri 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Last orders for pint glass as we know it?
"The government hopes introducing safer pint glasses, still made of glass, will help reduce injuries. As well as the human cost, it also hopes it will reduce the financial burden of alcohol-related crime, which currently costs the NHS £2.7bn a year.

Now, two new prototypes for beer glasses have been unveiled, as part of a programme involving the Design Council. Launched by the Home Office's Design and Technology Alliance, the aim is to use design to tackle crime."
bbc  news  uk  drink  technology  beer  glass  plastic  safety  violence 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Apology for singing shop worker
"Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS)."
bbc  news  uk  legal  music  copyright  wtf  scotland  culture 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Brewery's Nanny State beer swipe
"A brewery has launched a low alcohol beer called Nanny State after being branded irresponsible for creating the UK's "strongest beer"."
bbc  news  beer  alcohol  drink  drugs  government  culture  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Military robot 'hops' over walls
"Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot - which is being developed for the US military - uses its four wheels to get around."

But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated "leg" to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.
bbc  news  robot  us  military  technology  hardware  interesting  video 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Dads 'to share maternity leave'
"Fathers will be able to take six months' paternity leave, the government has announced. The move will allow mothers to decide to return to work after six months and fathers to stay at home for the rest of the 12 months off allowed by law."
bbc  news  politics  uk  children  family  gender  feminism  law  legal  business  progressive  interesting  welfare  rights 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Five consumer laws you really ought to know
"There is a war being fought between customers and many of the firms they have to deal with. It is an asymmetric conflict - the little man versus the faceless, bad customer service monoliths."

On the little man's side there are only newspaper consumer pages and a rather handy selection of laws.
bbc  shopping  law  rights  legal  reference  interesting  uk 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers
"As if the Government taking official statistics directly from partisan sources wasn't bad enough, the BBC reporter Oliver Hawkins also found that the figures were based on some highly questionable assumptions. The 7m figure had actually been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m. That 6.7m was gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software - in other words, only 136 people. It gets worse. That 11.6% of respondents who admitted to file sharing was adjusted upwards to 16.3% "to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it." The report's author told the BBC that the adjustment "wasn't just pulled out of thin air" but based on unspecified evidence"
news  uk  bbc  filesharing  government  business  statistics  computing  internet  authoritarianism  interesting  newlabour  lie 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
[Challenge] Anneka 'sorry' for horse damage
"A team of conservationists are having to repair damage caused to a Dorset landmark by an episode of the BBC's Challenge Anneka. Television star Anneka Rice attempted to spruce up the Osmington White Horse landmark in Weymouth in 1989, but 20 years on the repairs are coming undone."
bbc  news  tv  uk  archaeology  humour  history 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Azerbaijanis in Eurovision probe
"People in Azerbaijan who voted for a song by neighbouring Armenia in May's Eurovision Song Contest have been questioned by the authorities. One man told the BBC he was accused of being unpatriotic and a potential security threat, after he sent a text backing Armenia's song, Jan Jan."
bbc  news  music  culture  authoritarianism  wtf  azerbaijan  armenia 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | UK | Quakers 'to allow gay marriages'
"The church has already held religious blessings for same-sex couples who have had a civil partnership ceremony. But agreeing to perform gay marriages, which are currently not allowed under civil law, could bring the Quakers into conflict with the government."
bbc  news  uk  religion  law  relationships  lgbt  interesting 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
Squatters occupy MPs' 'main home'
"Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen have come under fire for claiming thousands of pounds on a second home near Parliament, while their designated main home is only 10 miles away. Now a group of men have taken direct action by squatting in the main home they say has been left unoccupied."
bbc  news  uk  housing  politics  law  activism  humour 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
bbc  article  technology  music  history  uk  mp3  mobile  hardware  interesting  humour 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Crocodile causes helicopter crash
"A helicopter pilot in Australia became so excited when he spotted a crocodile that he flew in for a closer look - and crashed into mudflats."
bbc  news  animals  crocodile  tourism  humour  australia 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Zimbabwe PM jeered by UK exiles
Tsvangirai boldly states"Zimbabweans must come home.", a cacophony of protest and chanting from the crowd.
uk  zimbabwe  politics  news  bbc  video  government  hate  interesting  humour 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hydrogen car to be 'open source'
"The manufacturer of a hydrogen car unveiled in London on Tuesday will make its designs available online so the cars can be built and improved locally."

Features the use of ultracapacitors.
bbc  news  transport  cars  opensource  design  mechanics  uk  travel  interesting  predction  hydrogen 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Health | Fingerprint grip theory rejected
"'It's always nice to knock down an urban myth with good data,' he said. "
bbc  news  evolution  physiology  biology  science  materials  research  uk  interesting  urbanmyth 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Can dogs really look 'guilty'?
"In a series of tests, owners were sometimes given accurate and sometimes false information about whether their dog had stolen the treat. But the research, published in Behavioural Processes, found that owners' interpretations of whether their dog looked guilty bore no reliable link with whether the dog had really stolen the treat. "
bbc  news  animals  dogs  psychology  interesting  research 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Kiss and Patel
"Arranged marriages are common among south Asian communities. But according to the Patels their marriages are more "introduced" than arranged. Hence the Wembley event. As the guests arrive they are handed lists relating first names (surnames are obviously a given at this do), ages, qualifications and occupations of their opposite numbers, together with the names of the villages their forefathers came from."
bbc  news  religion  culture  family  meme  india  interesting 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Welcome To The North » A whole lot of nothing
"Today is Doncaster’s brand-spanking-new [English Democrat party] Mayor’s first day on the job, and his first engagement of the day was an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield’s Toby Foster. I hope Mayor Davies didn’t think he was in for an easy ride for his first official interview, because that’s not what he got."
news  politics  radio  interview  bbc  uk  humour  democracy 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | UAE sheikh in abuse tape scandal
"A human rights group is calling on Abu Dhabi to take urgent action against the head of state's brother after video emerged of him torturing another man. ... The victim is seen being beaten, given electric shocks and crushed by a car.
bbc  news  uae  video  hate  rights  law  authoritarianism 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Pc 'eager to hit G20 protesters'
"The police officer's profile page on social networking site Facebook contained a message apparently written by Pc Ward at 2017 BST on 1 April. It stated: 'Rob Ward can't wait to bash some long haired hippys up @ the G20.'"
bbc  news  police  facebook  work  environment  protest  web  internet  uk 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
The BBC's latest web prototype: a show designed to be chopped up on the web | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The BBC's fledgling RAD department - or rapid application development project - has revealed another of its very early stage, prototype working models, this time exploring how to construct a video show designed, from the outset, to be published, pulled apart and shared on the web.

The longer, 30-minute version provides more material for those who want to cut and re-use footage for their own video, but crucially every element of the show's assets in one bundle - at least 27 different elements including the full-length interviews in different video file formats including Quicktime, Flash and Ogg, audio, logos and also metadata files."
bbc  news  video  tv  creativecommons  bittorrent  openculture  opencontent  mashup  interesting  cool 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | It's... Darcy of the Dead
"And if you read through the original book it's startling and a bit eerie how many opportunities Jane Austen left in her original work for ultra-violent zombie mayhem. You have this sharp-tongued character in Elizabeth Bennet - it's not that big a leap to put a sword in her hand and say she's now a slayer of the undead. "
news  bbc  literature  books  humour  zombies  uk  mashup 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
US fortune 'not solely for dogs'
"When Helmsley died in 2007 it was widely reported that she wanted her $8bn fortune spent only on canines. She was dubbed the "Queen of Mean" during a trial in 1989 for tax evasion. Manhattan probate court judge Troy Webber ruled that Helmsley's legal documents allowed the trustees to 'apply trust funds for such charitable purposes and in such amounts as they may, in their sole discretion, determine'"
bbc  news  charity  law  dogs  court  usa  jurisprudence 
february 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Czechs apologise for hoax EU art
"As well as portraying Bulgaria as a toilet, Entropa depicts Romania as a Dracula theme-park and France as a country on strike. The Netherlands is shown as a series of minarets submerged by a flood - a possible reference to the nation's simmering religious tensions. Germany is shown as a network of motorways vaguely resembling a swastika, while the UK - criticised by some for being one of the EU's most Eurosceptic members - is absent from Europe altogether. "
news  bbc  europe  humour  art 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Rom-coms 'spoil your love life'
"They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner. Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them."
bbc  news  psychology  movies  edinburgh  research  communication  relationships  anthropology 
december 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Ecstatic Kenyan welcome for US senator
"They had printed T-shirts, mainly in bright yellow, and one would have been forgiven for thinking that Senator Obama was conducting a presidential campaign in Kenya."
news  bbc  usa  kenya  politics  obama  africa  advert  elections 
november 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | UK | How waste food can be a lifeline
"When you have the choice that either surplus food is put to good use like this or goes to landfill, then it's a bit of a no-brainer really ...It's just about putting the mechanisms in place to make it happen."
news  bbc  food  money  business  sustainability  charity  uk  life 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Saudi judge condemns 'immoral TV'
"The most senior judge in Saudi Arabia has said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes."
bbc  news  saudiarabia  law  tv  religion  philosophy  hate  wtf  authoritarianism 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Why dying is forbidden in the Arctic
"It is forbidden to die in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen. ... The town's small graveyard stopped accepting newcomers 70 years ago, after it was discovered that the bodies were failing to decompose."
bbc  news  arctic  death  norway  interesting  humour 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
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"We've searched the internet to bring you the best news articles for today. We use a advanced algorthm to work out what you, the internet public is interested in. Browse the website, clicking on a story will help it become even more popular."
bbc  news  service  mashup  search  programming  web  internet  cool  interesting  algorithm 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | UK | New guide to 'irritating' England
the guide ... kindly describ[es Engllish] as "animal-loving, tea-drinking, charity donors" whose "warmth is in the humour". But ... "The English have become obedient consumers rather than active citizens, with brand loyalty the nearest thing to religious/
uk  england  news  bbc  travel  guide  culture  society  tea  sociology  interesting  humour 
may 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault
"A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard. ... Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: 'I hope the force will soon be with hi
bbc  news  uk  crime  starwars  humour  wales 
april 2008 by milkmiruku
Hack Day 2008 - Rather Mashed 2008
Notes on Hack Day 2008 aka Mashed.
bbc  hackday  hacking  blog  interesting  technology  internet  web  mashup 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Darkest ever' material created
"The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders. Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal black material, which absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over all wavelengths.
science  technology  news  nanotechnology  humour  goth  bbc  black  cool  fashion 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC online to go free over wi-fi
"The BBC has also confirmed that users of Apple Mac and Linux machines will be able to use its TV catch-up service from the end of the year."
bbc  news  tv  media  free  content  wifi 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The wrong man
"Michael Fish's infamous weather forecast 20 years ago today, in which he seemed to scotch rumours of a hurricane, has gone down in broadcasting history. There's only one problem - that wasn't what happened"
news  bbc  weather  prediction  history  tv  interesting 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Health | Doing housework can cause asthma
"Giving your house a weekly clean could be enough to give you asthma, according to research." - Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
bbc  news  health  asthma  psychology  biology  research  work 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Concert ban for 'Chavez critic'
"A popular Spanish singer has been banned from performing in a [state-run] Caracas stadium over remarks he made about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez."
bbc  news  venezuela  censorship  politics  authoritarianism  music 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Health | Performer gets third ear for art
"An Australian performer who has had an ear grafted onto his forearm ... The ear does not function, but he hopes to have a microphone implanted to allow others to listen to what his extra ear picks up."
bbc  news  art  biology  biotech  psychology  audio  interesting  humour  weird 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How mother moose outwits the bear
"Other species, including monkeys, deer and elephants, have also been shown to use people as cover from predators. Wildlife Conservation Society biologist and study author, Dr Joel Berger, said moose mothers were "using human infrastructure as a shield"."
bbc  news  animals  meme  usa  moose  interesting  bears 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | England | Wear | Inventor wins speed camera battle
"Sunderland University lecturer Phillip Tann, 45, was told mobile speed officers recorded him speeding in a 30mph zone in the city last November. But Dr Tann, from South Shields, had data from a satellite tracking device, showing him travelling at 29.18mp
bbc  news  surveillance  travel  cars  technology  law  gps  camera 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Politics | Lib Dem bid for fixed poll dates
"Allowing hype to build about an early election was a "massive error of judgment" by Gordon Brown, he said."
bbc  news  uk  politics  policy  law 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Does the Frank Spencer music have Morse code?
"Its composer Ronnie Hazlehurst died this week and a story about a hidden meaning within that famous score, deciphered by Morse code, was mentioned in some obituaries."
bbc  news  tv  music  cryptography  interesting 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Women condemn Turkey constitution
"A new constitution is being prepared to replace the current one, introduced after the military coup of 1980. The document describes women as a vulnerable group needing protection."
bbc  news  turkey  law  feminism  society  culture  islam 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Shipping Forecast's 'baffling' legacy
"The Shipping Forecast can be heard four times a day on BBC Radio 4, giving details of conditions in the seas around the UK, Ireland and beyond. Each broadcast attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners, many of them with no connection to coastal waters
bbc  weather  history  uk  radio  interesting 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
If you think the nation decides, think again | Broadcast | MediaGuardian.co.uk
"it is a curiosity that, quite possibly, the more we listen to what some people say, the less we know about what - or even if - most people think."
op-ed  article  media  uk  bbc  democracy  culture  society  interactive  social 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Brothers mark 20 years of chuckles
"The Chuckle Brothers - AKA Barry and Paul Chuckle - celebrate 20 years of their BBC children's show ChuckleVision this week."
bbc  news  comedy  tv  children  humour 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Judge blasts Kyle show as 'trash'
"It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to effect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil." He added that it was "human bear-baiting which goes under the guise of entertainment".
bbc  news  tv  itv  crime  psychology  humour  culture  uk 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Health | Paedophiles' brains 'different'
"Lead researcher Dr Georg Northoff added: "Our results may thus be seen as the first step towards establishing a neurobiology of paedophilia which ultimately may contribute to the development of new and effective means of therapies for this debilitating d
bbc  news  usa  sex  children  biology  biotech  psychology  physiology  brain 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Tech: Bill Thompson Hates Being Called a Fraud
"As reader Thomas Olson noted, "What irks even more about the swill he [Bill Thompson] publishes on the BBC website, is that there is no place for public feedback, so us common folk can call BS on his rant in real time for the world to witness. BBC is sti
bbc  news  technology  op-ed  blog  apple  microsoft  eu 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Man admits urinating on ill woman
"A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street. The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard."
bbc  news  society  uk  wtf  hate  culture  youtube  death 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Politics | 'Surprise' over gambling figures
"The internet and other new forms of gambling have not led to an increase in people having a flutter since 1999, a Gambling Commission study has found. In fact, due to a drop in the National Lottery sales, the numbers of people gambling fell from 72% in 1
bbc  news  games  gambling  uk  money  research  society  internet 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Politics | 'Hello, that's me,' says Lembit
"I am not appalled by photographs of this kind. What is appalling about two young people who are obviously very affectionate towards each other?"
bbc  news  uk  politics  libdems  conference  media  photography  travel 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Stun gun used during Kerry debate
"The 21-year-old student can be heard screaming for help as the stun gun is administered."
bbc  news  usa  politics  war  debate  policy  video  stungun  police 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Hitler's secret Indian army
"Bose, who had been arrested 11 times by the British in India, had fled the Raj with one mission in mind. That was to seek Hitler's help in pushing the British out of India."
history  bbc  news  article  war  india  politics  germany  ww2 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Big Brother is watching us all
"Their goal is to invent a system whereby a facial image can be matched to your gait, your height, your weight and other elements, so a computer will be able to identify instantly who you are."
bbc  news  usa  security  privacy  technology  science  prediction 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | E German 'licence to kill' found
"'Do not hesitate with the use of a firearm, including when the border breakouts involve women and children, which the traitors have already frequently taken advantage of,' it reads."
bbc  news  germany  politics  death  hate  authoritarianism 
august 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Health | Mahjong game 'can cause epilepsy'
"The findings, published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal, are based on 23 cases of people who suffered mahjong-induced seizures. The report's four authors, from Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital, said the best prevention - and cure - was to avoid playing m
bbc  news  games  health  china 
august 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Orangutans use 'charades' to talk
"Researchers from St Andrews University have shown that the animals intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across."
bbc  news  animals  evolution  nature  communication  psychology  orangutans  science 
august 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | England | Hampshire | Cold remedy stops meerkat fights
"However, thanks to a suggestion from our vet, Kate Chitty, we were able to neutralise all odours by using a little of the VapoRub on the nose of each meerkat. "The meerkats then all smelt the same to each other and gladly accepted the new arrivals."
bbc  news  animals  meerkats  smell  cute 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Spanish royal sex cartoon banned
"Spain's High Court has ordered the seizure of all copies of a magazine that carried a cartoon of Crown Prince Felipe and his wife having sex."
bbc  news  spain  monarchy  cartoon  censorship  hate 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | British blamed for Basra badgers
"UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
bbc  news  iraq  military  animals  badger  humour 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why money can't buy everything
"At last I realised that I didn't really disapprove of [Paris Hilton] at all. She's too valuable. She's our example, today, of the person who exists to prove that wealth for its own sake is utterly pointless."
bbc  art  op-ed  celebrity  humour  society  interesting 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Education | Philosophy for seven-year-olds
"There's something wonderfully naive about the ancient Greeks because they were right at the beginning of it all," says Mr Worley. "There's something that the children can identify with - it is at the same level as themselves, but it is also sophisticated
bbc  news  education  philosophy  uk  interesting 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player | The Register
"The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing."
bbc  news  opensource  tv  video  internet  streaming  drm  windows  software  technology 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US town set to ban saggy trousers
"Town attorney Ted Ayo said the ordinance expands on the existing state indecent exposure law by adding underwear to the list of forbidden exposures."
bbc  news  usa  politics  law  wtf  clothing  culture 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Education | Wealth gap in learning by three
"By the age of three, children from disadvantaged homes are up to a year behind in their learning than those from more privileged backgrounds"
bbc  news  education  politics  society  culture  psychology  uk 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Health | Bear robot rescues wounded troops
Slashdot comment; "errr: Give the robot a menacing look with red eyes, a gun, 500 pounds of Ammo, and leave the troop home; Also embed an explosive."
bbc  news  article  usa  military  technology  robot  war 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Is gingerism as bad as racism?
Well duh.
bbc  news  article  culture  hate  uk  society  interesting 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Education | Grammar schools - why all the fuss?
"How many grammar schools did the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major create? Answer: none. ... Thatcher is understood to have signed away more grammar schools between 1970 and 1974 than any other education secretary before or sin
bbc  news  politics  interesting  history  conservatism  humour 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Pole wakes up from 19-year coma
"A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed ... 'What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning," said Mr Grzebski. 'I'
bbc  news  poland  culture  politics  society  weird  health  interesting 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Air hostesses told to shed weight
"An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight. The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and in
bbc  news  feminism  culture  hate  india  flight  business 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Living plugs' smooth ant journey
"Scientists from the University of Bristol observed that, when ants were foraging on rough terrain, some of them used their own bodies to plug potholes. ... As the traffic diminishes, the ant pops out and heads home"
bbc  news  nature  research  biology  interesting  ants 
may 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | 'Start pushing', passengers asked
"It took them more than half an hour to move the electric train 12ft (4m) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey."
bbc  news  india  transport  humour  culture 
may 2007 by milkmiruku
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