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I love the Register’s sense of humour, even when it can’t resist the descent into schoolboy snickering.
It’s most evident in the standfirsts you get on the front page. Maybe I’m easy to please, but even the advanced search page made me smile earlier:

Now if only it was just slightly smaller and would fit on here [...]

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Sorry, I know, I know, it’s about the BBC again, but I’ve just realised that there’s an increasing vogue on BBC News for bunging up a bit of video without sound, or without any commentary, detail or analysis.
Hell, even I can do that (I wouldn’t bother watching this, incidentally: it’s not that interesting)

And, while I’m [...]

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This looks worth a watch: Jesus Camp on this evening at 11.05 in the UK, on Channel 4. (thanks to Drink-soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for WAR for the heads-up)

It brings to mind Richard Dawkins’ assertion in The God Delusion that there’s no such things a Christian child, or a Muslim child, or a Jewish child, because [...]

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This is almost as bad as the London mayoral results:

It’s like when you walk past your favourite shop or restaurant and see that sign in the window “closed for refurbishment”, except you can’t cross the street and peer in to find the reassuring sight of men with paint on ladders.
In a recent unscientific survey conducted [...]

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Hi, it’s 2008.
Just wanted to remind you, because BBC News thinks it’s discovered a security flaw in Facebook applications. Yes, apparently they can gain access to your and your friends’ profile information, so a malicious application could pose as a legitimate one and harvest profile details, even if they’re not public.
I had to double-check the [...]

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