Davy Jones, member of the fab 60s pomo group, The Monkees, has died in Florida at the age of 66.
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The Raspberry Pi computer is just a small green circuit board about the size of a credit card - but it is hoped that it will get thousands of schoolchildren interested in programming.
Created by a group of scientists and developers who wanted to i
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Alex Cox wants people to pirate his videos now, because the big corporations take all the cash.
On Quietus, initially via Boing Boing.
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from The Telegraph:
Members of an Asian head of state's family have funded al-Qaeda and had advance knowledge of the July 7 terrorist attacks on London, according to claims made public by MPs and peers on Friday.
By Christopher Hope, and Robert Winnett8:00AM GMT 25 Feb 2012
A Parliamentar
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The myth of the eight-hour sleep. Via the BBC:
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
This phenomenon has been known about for a long
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The Constructed Space - a celebration of W S Graham, edited by Ronnie Duncan and Jonathan Davidson, Foreword by Harold Pinter, (Jackson's Arm, 1994), 100pp, paperback in Fine condition: £35 via Amazon Marketplace.
This volume contains some previously unpublished poetry by W S Graham, to
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A new literary ezine, based in the Midlands.
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There’s a brand new 2 hour mix of material in The Loop on Radio Wildfire – Now playing 24/7 a completely new selection of stories, satires, poetry, spoken word, music and interview @www.radiowildfire.com - another two hours of live literature and chat.
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REM – Inspire Lincolnshire
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David Barrett at The Telegraph:
Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan.
Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans.
Landline and mobile phon
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