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Live Advertising on C4

If you are in front of your TV tonight at about 8.10ish, you might want to switch over to Channel 4 to see Britain’s first live TV ad.
From The Guardian:
“The programmes that surround them might habitually rely on cliffhangers to maintain attention, but advert breaks are not normally known for their sense of jeopardy. That [...]

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Young Tory of the Year

Fry & Laurie from 13 years ago. Nothing’s changed.

The script can be found here.

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Lib Dem Liberalism @ ASI

The ASI blog gives Nick a good write up after yesterday’s speech on tax policy at Policy Exchange:
“In a speech at Policy Exchange yesterday, Nick Clegg said:
When Labour came to power in 1997, the Government took three hundred billion pounds a year in tax. This year the Government will take nearly double that. They take [...]

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Google Health

Via Tim Worstall, I find that Google launched Google Health earlier this week.
Currently only available in the U.S., it allows you to “build an online health profile”, adding information about conditions, medications, allergies and immunizations that you have/have had as well as having the possibility to import your medical records.
Once this is done, you can [...]

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“Got some idiots in ‘ere.”

The stupidity of the complexity of the Tax Credit system in 1 minute 1 second:

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A picture speaks a thousand words

Via Virtual Economics, I found this neat little visualization tool from Neoformix.
“Introducing News Spectrum ! It is a visualization of the words used for two topics in the latest results from Google News. One topic is coloured blue, the other red, and the associated words are coloured and positioned based on how highly they are [...]

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Ashcroft: The Chavez Connection

Rob Parsons, residing in A Comfortable Place, beat me to it but there is a nice story in The Economist this week about how Belize Bank is holding onto $10 Million that the Belizean Government thinks belongs to the people of Belize, a gift from the Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, to build housing and [...]

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Guido keeps his head, and his liberty

well, most of his liberty.
After being caught drink driving with no insurance last month the magistrate has given Paul:

A 3-month curfew order, applicable between the hours of 9pm-6am
An electronic tag
An 18-month supervision order, and
A 3-year driving ban

So, early nights and a bit more exercise for ol’ Guido. Might do him some good.
(HT: Chicken Yoghurt [...]

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The Huhney Monster

He has been a bit quiet recently but these two quotes from Chris Huhne show why he and Liberalism are effing brilliant.
On Labour ignoring the advice  on the classification of Cannabis:
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said that, as its advice had been disregarded, ministers should disband the advisory council of experts and [...]

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RIOT! (swiss style)

While you were all off practising your democratic rights yesterday, out here in the REAL world ANARCHY ensued. Well I say ANARCHY, really it was anarchy as the swiss don’t really do violence (which is strange really as they are all armed to the teeth - so it turns out Charlton Heston was right: [...]