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Is this the end of the quasiamicable pair?

Sydney Padua presents Lovelace and Babbage Vs. The Organist Pt 2, in which Babbage redefines the problem of crime, invents CCTV and wrecks his partnership with Ada Lovelace. So geeky. So good.

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The amoral meandering of boys

Andrew O'Hagan reflects on his first significant article for the London Review of Books, suddenly and terribly topical all over again: I've been thinking all week about Jon Venables. In some way, I...

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True crime

How can you resist a news story that includes this comment from the German police? "What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear," a police spokesman said. [Via The Law...

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Life imitates The Day Today

Charlie Brooker on last week's news scrum in Rothbury: The hunt for Raoul Moat got the news so flustered, it shrieked its reports at a pitch several hundred octaves above satire. Beneath a photograph...

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Beware of B1-66ER

A cry for funding if ever I heard one: [...] Writing in IEEE Computer, Professor Noel Sharkey, from the University of Sheffield's Department of Computer Science, along with former Crimewatch presenter...

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Ridiculously entertaining

Sledgehammer and Whore: [...] This is a story of a Procedural. Specifically, mine. Last Sunday night the wife and I were sound asleep at 1145pm after a night of Entourage, True Blood and Schadenfreude....

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Internet Story

Adam Butcher's Internet Story: A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for his own amusement and a video blogger decides to pursue the riddles across...

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5%?

The world's biggest corporate fines, visualised in proportion to each company's annual income. Really puts the Barclays LIBOR-fixing fine into perspective.

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Murder everywhere

The BBC, courtesy of figures produced by More or Less, provides the hard statistics to demonstrate that Jessica Fletcher was the world's greatest serial killer: Location Murder rate Midsomer County...

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Beware the carrier of the tortoise

Islam's Medieval Underworld: The year is – let us say – 1170, and you are the leader of a city watch in medieval Persia. Patrolling the dangerous alleyways in the small hours of the morning, you and...

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The Roast in the Fridge

The Roast in the Fridge: "Don't scream. Don't make any noise, lady, and you won't get hurt." I had been asleep in bed next to my mother with Sasha, the Persian cat we jokingly referred to as our "watch...

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