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Enjoy this astonishing video from innovative band OK Go – absolutely brilliant.

Ever so slightly mad song with an utterly insane video. Brilliant!

King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred, DNA Shows
King Tut may be seen as the golden boy of ancient Egypt today, but during his reign, Tutankhamun wasn’t exactly a strapping sun god.
Instead, a new DNA study says, King Tut was a frail pharaoh, beset by malaria and a bone disorder—and possibly compromised by his newly [...]

Digital Economy Bill bill could ‘breach rights’

An influential group of MPs and peers has said the government's approach to illegal file-sharing could breach the rights of internet users.
The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights said the government's Digital Economy Bill needed clarification.
It said that technical measures – which include cutting off persistent pirates – were [...]

This is one of my most favourite pieces of music. It never fails to give me goosebumps.

It’s been a while since I posted a joke, so here’s one from my work email:

A boy asked his mother the following question:

‘Mum, why are wedding dresses white?’
The mother looks at her son and replies: ‘Son, this shows your friends and relatives that your bride is pure.’

The son thanks his Mum and goes [...]

France’s anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo Boing Boing
Hapodi, the French agency that’s in charge of the country’s new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with is accused of three acts of infringement, your whole household is taken offline and added to a list of address to which it is illegal to [...]

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I work near Coventry and for some reason it always misses out on the worst of the snowfall. At least, it has for the last few years.
This winter, while large parts of the UK having been buried under literally millimetres of snow, Coventry has hardly seen a flake.
This was the scene earlier today at work. [...]