Info Jungle

Church of Google is built upon millions of guesses

Thursday, July 23, 2009

There's a delicious irony about Google's latest efforts to photograph every inch of our planet and turn it into an online map.

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Stupidity is main threat

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Reading about the latest phone- hacking scandal involving the News of the World, it's easy to think the biggest threat to our privacy today is not...

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Goggles for Army dogs

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Army dogs that sniff out explosives in Afghanistan are getting some little rubber boots, and some 'doggles' to protect their eyes.

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My finances go up in smoke

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Twenty-first century crime caught up with me last week when the bank phoned to ask if I really had spent the previous day shopping in Norway with my...

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Pledges by police

Thursday, April 16, 2009

You can hardly have missed the outbreak of giant advertisements – on bus shelters and billboards – for the 'policing pledge'. The clever...

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The TaxPayers' Alliance

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Don't you just love the TaxPayers' Alliance? Its members are fearless in their pursuit of the faceless bureaucrats who waste our money on daft...

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It's fun fighting the flab

Thursday, March 26, 2009

If you listen to the Government you would think we are a nation of fat slobs.

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Secret of the data dungeon

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wiltshire County Council chiefs are still searching high and low for the missing memory stick that includes the bank details of 1,300 housing benefit...

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