Something I missed before; the phone hack of murder victim Milly Dowler was back in 2002 according to this. I conflated it with the royal voicemail scandal, which is a different but likely related story. I’ll guess that journos and PIs have been figuring out how easy it is to navigate voicemails since the technology was invented. Maybe they found it more convenient and less risky than breaking in to homes and offices to listen to taped messages on the old first generation machines? Since many people never changed the default passwords on their analog and digital voicemails, it just…
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RT @cdashiell "Only the liberal churches protested slavery." # Wow, an oil pipeline UNDER a major river. What genius thought that one up? # No asthma or tight chest today! #fb # What is wrong with United Airlines at IAD? Long lines, nobody available to check my guy in because kiosk can't handle British passport??!! # 2nd time this week UA at IAD has my people missing flights because no one available to help customers. The kiosks don't work for everyone. # London Bomb Blasts: You Can't Beat the System http://flic.kr/p/39bDK # RT @ThriftyinWhite: Just got assigned an indepth story…
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As a progressive who abhors the unprecedented and frighting hold Murdoch holds over Fox News, and by extension the radical Religious Right in the US, his fall from power as Britain’s “uncrowned king” can’t come soon enough. And with the latest news breaking that millions of emails pertinent to the scandal might have been deleted by a News International executive, it’s possible the scandal may jump the pond and take a few of Murdoch’s US institutions down AND even a family member or two. Oh, I hope so. I do hope so. And now, Andy Coulson has been arrested: he’s…
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I bought this mug 20 years ago, photographed it for the Flickr London Bomb Blasts group on 7/7/05
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We’ve done a little finding, but prefer to do it when on vacation.
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We saw Kung Fu Panda 2 yesterday, and it was a joy to see a sequel that extended the original story so seamlessly and with such generous emotional satisfaction. Ebert liked it too, but thought the 3-D version detracted. Based on that assessment, we saw the “normal” 2-D version, and liked it very much indeed: “Kung Fu Panda 2” is exactly as you’d expect, and more. The animation is elegant, the story is much more involving than in the original, and there’s boundless energy. I enjoyed it as fully as I possibly could, given the horror of its 3-D. The…
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From today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, a video of the southern sky. Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.
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Kevin Drum, quoting a NJ state legislator on Gov. Chris Christie’s line item veto, then wonders “but is he a dick?”
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Kevin Drum, quoting a NJ state legislator on Gov. Chris Christie’s line item veto, then wonders “but is he a dick?”
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Third year in a row, he’s on Oxfam’s best seller list, probably because their bookshops are glutted with his binned books.