BBC NEWS: Apple investigates iPod batteries "In its quarterly financial report ... Apple said it ... would be looking into the claims alleging "misrepresentations by the company relative to iPod battery life". More on fool.com
Chew on this: new research on Qat "The Home Office's drugs and alcohol research unit ...will report in the autumn. If they conclude that qat is dangerous, they may well recommend that it should be classified along with other illegal drugs such as cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines, bringing UK law into line with the majority of western countries."
The balanced view on Moveable Type bloggers "You are all pretentious twats. Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky."
The Morning News on IKEA "IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings."
How many more books will I read? Following a more modest version of their maths. I think I've got less than 400 left. And half of them are likely to be rubbish.
Curveball Utterly addictive. Also stolen from Bifurcated Rivets. Obviously, I'm too busy for such things...but just in case you're not.
Anti-Semitism, real and exaggerated The foreign editor of Die Welt syndicated to Ha'aretz. Well worth a read. He concludes: "The European reality [of anti-semitism]... is less threatening than the Israelis believe but more worrisome than the Europeans want to think."
Blumenthal on Dean and Gore "Gore's endorsement of Dean is the most important since grainy film was shown at the 1992 Democratic convention depicting President Kennedy shaking hands with a teenage Bill Clinton."
Julie Burchill: The hate that shames us The follow up to last week's starter on anti-semitism. Quite an unspectacular romp through some of the usual suspects (Tom Paulin, Tam Dayell and the supression of the EU report).
Ecstasy is 'yesterday's dance drug' "Home Office ministers claimed yesterday that ecstasy use has fallen for the first time and that wider class A drug abuse among young people, including cocaine use, has stabilised after rising in the late 1990s. "
Home office press release.
Anyway, I thought it was all Ritalin these days...
This is a Magazine. Well - only in the loosest meaning of the word. But well worth your clicks.
Iraq Phase three: civil war Simon Tisdall in today's paper: "An orderly transition and the assertion of legitimate, democratic governance is by no means assured. Continuing, escalating civil strife, scattering the seeds of a possible civil war, could yet turn out to be the Bush-Blair legacy in Iraq. "
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