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Oh, we can do better than Sussex and Essex (and Middlesex -- which officially no longer exists, having been absorbed into the London region decades ago. I think my house would have been in Middlesex, but I'm not sure.).

Penistone
Wetwang
Twatt
Titty Ho
East Breast
Butt Hole Road

See also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Britain

I had a friend at school originally from Scunthorpe, who was blocked sometimes from forums if he filled in the location. His address while at school was Scraptoft (not far from Bushby, Burton Overy, Noseley, Pickwell, ... Leicestershire has some fantastic place names, though most aren't rude.)

There are plenty of 7200 RPM 2.5" drives.

Actually, there's one up the road from me. :)

I show you this because it's local to me and I spent three days there as a teenager with only a backpack. We walked for miles without seeing anything but gorse.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dartmoor&ll=50.577132,-3.961258&spn=0.319621,0.837021&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=uk&t=h&z=11

25% of the population live in London. The rest of us are only a few miles away from a field. :)

Do you actually have a cite for a correlation between Gini Coefficient and crime rates by country?

There have been many such studies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=crime+gini+index+correlation&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=aNpCTrfNL8GGhQfWmpXcCQ

I suspect we would rather have 3 days of rioting than 3 hours of what happened in Norway.

Sometimes your old pictures really don't fit your latest image.

Sometimes your old pictures really don't fit your latest image.

Please. The correct phrase is Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton.

I guess there isn't really much to do in the Shetland Islands!

So, presumably if BT points this out and therefore has to block Google too, maybe Google can pay to fight the stupid law!

freedom freedom freedom, oy!

It was a sofa.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=why+the+other+queue+always+moves+quicker

It's a gimmick for a housing development.

Zoom in on the SW corner:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hamad+Bin+Hamdan+Al+Nahyan&hl=en&ll=24.346862,54.329238&spn=0.033117,0.055747&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=22.087036,57.084961&radius=15000.000000&t=h&z=15

"Tits." - Jack Ryan

Here it is.

This is offtopic but do I believe that we're in this war to support the rebels? It can't possibly be for something we want. It has happened once, it will happen again.

Seen this late so maybe wasting time replying but... I actually would like to see a real review of technologies. There have been many new and not so new tech advances such as Clean, cheap, nuclear fission power that should be funded, as they may save us the trouble of building traditional nuclear power stations. Off on a tangent there is also Gasification and Liquefaction leading to cheap fuel and gas. There are options, how appropriate and or beneficial they are needs to be looked at. I fear that the options that get funded however may have more to do with lobbying.

Try this one. 70MPH and no lights:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.059173,-0.898878&spn=0.002542,0.004823&t=h&z=18

I think it should be pointed out that you are allowed to go slower than 70 if you are feeling nervous.

Roundabouts (or rotaries, or traffic circles, as they're known in parts of the U.S.) induce confusion and fear in many drivers,

Correct. And that is their purpose. By making drivers uncomfortable and unsure and afraid, they help slow down drivers, which reduces the impact (literally) of collisions, reduces their frequency, and reduces the severity of resulting injuries.

Making drivers comfortable is not part of the consideration.

Having said that, here in Britain where they're very popular, they have almost lost their sting. Understanding their use is part of almost every driving examination (some of the outer islands may not have any roundabouts to practise on, but they'd still be in the written exams), so most people know how to handle them. Having said that, it's only a few weeks since I last saw someone driving the wrong way around a busy roundabout.

Plus, some places make a rotary out of a 5-way intersection which can be incredibly confusing. It's a tradeoff, I guess, but overall I'd rather drive in a straight line :)

That's a good reason to make it impossible for you to drive in a straight line.

You'd love this one : the Magic Roundabout, and that is it's real name.

The problem with that one is the lane markings. They don't spiral out, so you have to think where you're going at every point.

Look Here (London, UK -- driving on the left, obviously). The lane markings guide the drivers towards the exit they wanted (assuming they picked the correct lane when they approached). Look on streetview if you wish.

Also, the road numbers are painted in the lanes in gigantic letters.

No. Traffic lights on mini-roundabouts tend to be peak-hours only, so you get the best of both worlds. And this intesection near to where I live, which has traffic lights because it's so busy, wouldn't really work as an ordinary intersection but is far more compact than a 6-way cloverleaf would be.

Having looked at a few American roundabouts on Google Street View, I think part of the problem is that the designers have assumed that Americans will be confused by them, and have decided to give them as much help as possible. The end result is that they've gone crazy with line painting, and so there's a severe case of information overload on approach.

Compare this American roundabout with this Scottish one.

Having looked at a few American roundabouts on Google Street View, I think part of the problem is that the designers have assumed that Americans will be confused by them, and have decided to give them as much help as possible. The end result is that they've gone crazy with line painting, and so there's a severe case of information overload on approach.

Compare this American roundabout with this Scottish one.

Simple, you build pedestrian tunnels under the road across the roundabout:

Such as:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.886154,0.903878&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

You can look forward to things like this too:

Some roundabouts in Colchester, UK.

Magic Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.884414,0.932816&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Double Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.892959,0.917935&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Cut through Roundabouts:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.900912,0.896083&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Half Roundabout with junction:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.890039,0.856909&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

You can look forward to things like this too:

Some roundabouts in Colchester, UK.

Magic Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.884414,0.932816&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Double Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.892959,0.917935&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Cut through Roundabouts:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.900912,0.896083&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Half Roundabout with junction:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.890039,0.856909&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

You can look forward to things like this too:

Some roundabouts in Colchester, UK.

Magic Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.884414,0.932816&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Double Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.892959,0.917935&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Cut through Roundabouts:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.900912,0.896083&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Half Roundabout with junction:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.890039,0.856909&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

You can look forward to things like this too:

Some roundabouts in Colchester, UK.

Magic Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.884414,0.932816&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Double Roundabout:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.892959,0.917935&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Cut through Roundabouts:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.900912,0.896083&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Half Roundabout with junction:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.890039,0.856909&spn=0.001412,0.004128&t=k&z=19

Try this one. 70MPH and no lights:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.059173,-0.898878&spn=0.002542,0.004823&t=h&z=18

Example: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=-36.79191,174.771398&spn=0.001697,0.003484&sll=51.629526,-0.175223&sspn=0.021045,0.055747&t=h&z=19

See the two roundabouts? They each have pedestrian islands on each side road.

The roads themselves aren't high volume, but rather than having to come to a complete stop at each intersection and look, or install traffic lights and wait until the cycle goes green, you can basically drive straight through and only check a single direction as you go. You don't need to check for oncoming traffic, nor do you need to check for traffic turning into your path, as it's a single flow. It greatly reduces the number of potential points cars can crash into each other.

My results for "shit" are
- Wikipedia
- internetisshit.org
- shitbrix.com
- urban dictionary
- youtube -- random funny shit

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=shit&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

But Google's results are influenced by so many things (in this case: by my IP geolocating to London, UK; by my choice of google.co.uk; by being logged in to Google Mail; by whatever cookies are on my machine... although I think I blocked them)

"But were they truly netbooks, with no moving parts?"

That's your own made-up definition of netbook; while there isn't a universally accepted definition of the term, the generally accepted definitions do not preclude the use of hard disks, and the iconic models of the genre such as the Acer Aspire One have mostly had hard-disk versions since the term came into existence. Here's some typical definitions, as you can see they all basically say "small, low powered laptop", none of them mandate an SSD.

Meetings? I disagree on that one - whether you're using a laptop or a tablet, your attention on the device is no different. Plus I frequently come across scenarios where someone else is presenting on a projector, a discussion results about a topic, one member of the audience says "Here, have a look at this" then plugs his laptop into the projector to show to the room - something you can't do with a tablet directly.

The issue is more about having all the documentation you need there. Many people go into a meeting needing folders and folders of information on the stuff they're discussing. They need to be able to quickly drag it up and reference it, but not be separated from the meeting with it. And yes, at least the iPad can be plugged into a projector, you need one of these, but honestly, anyone going into a meeting with an iPad will have one, and any company that uses iPads regularly in meetings will likely have one attached to the projector.

Dont even need expensive headphones to get audiophile quality (assuming headphones Less that 40 euros delivered.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hd+688b

Although you may mean it in jest, actually what you're stating is a powerful argument, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. In the UK it's known as the 'Beachy Head Argument' (Beachy Head is a high cliff notorious for people jumping off to commit suicide). If you were there enjoying the view and saw someone preparing to leap off, would you run over and stop them? Clearly by taking that action, they are showing that they wish to die, yet the action of most reasonable people would be to prevent them - try to talk them out out of it - even maybe physically restrain them.

Their accuracy overall is atrocious. Normal search is often cluttered with irrelevant results to the point of being unusable.

I'm not experiencing this.

And lately they have started to search for things I did not tell them to search for, as if they knew better.

I'm not getting this either.

For most things these days I have to use quotes and pluses.

I always have.

Just think about how much non-kid stuff were left if they did a kid search engine using these same shoddy mechanisms.

With SafeSearch set to strict? Probably not many, if any at all.

Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist?

Because you can switch SafeSearch to strict filtering? Duh.

This "WTF is Frozen Synapse" shows the gameplay pretty clearly: linky.

Gotta warn you though, the guy is pretty damn enthusiastic, but with reason ;-)

Interesting. On the west coast it does rain quite a bit, but last summer and this summer so far, we've had hardly any rain in Aberdeen (east coast). Maybe a couple of days rain a week when it's been at its worst in May. April was sunny as hell.

I've never even heard of a mudslide in the UK, so I don't know where you're getting that from (. Googling for "mudslide UK", I get 1) a cocktail recipe, 2 & 3) music albums, 4) something which seems to be just one of those pages that is there to catch search traffic, and the rest of the results are British newspapers reporting stories of mudslides in other countries..

Searching instead for "landslide" (since I'm not even sure I've heard the word mudslide before) does turn up some results, but it's mostly coastal erosion. I didn't realise we built our nuclear reactors in the sea.

Seriously, where did you learn your definition of revenue, because to everyone else it is synonymous with income. Also, see wikipedia.

And don't ask about Supergirl, Power Girl, and Hawk Girl. Their histories are the ones that get screwed the most.

Well, it's no bloody wonder that everybody wants to screw Supergirl!

Yeah, it doesn't matter than the 'Random Terrorist' group (known as the GLA btw - Global Liberation Army, not all the distant from some real groups) all had middle-eastern accents and all looked like middle-easterners in the avatars/photos - even the buildings looked like stereotypical Arab buildings! It was 100% fucking obvious who they were meant to represent.

The Chinese weren't exactly portrayed very well in that game either - ego-maniacal, nuke-crazy warmongers - and however accurate you think that may be, you have to ask yourself how America would be portrayed if the tables were flipped... oh wait you don't have to ask, we just found out :)

C&C Generals Faction Image - not at all obvious who was portrayed as good and bad.... :)

trending.

They stopped wikileaks from trending a while back too

FWIW, this is the one I have:

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=tritton+see2&cid=2976442372253432122

Try this, to start. There are probably other map-things that do this too.

A Google search for site:en.wikipedia.org Coordinates "Florence, Italy" gives 370 results.

Actually, there are already reports saying that according to "leaked" information from the investigators, after preliminary analysis of the FDR contents, the likely cause of the crash is not an aircraft malfunction. See this very rough google translation. Of course, such early reports should be taken with a lot of caution, but they come from a rather respectable source.

I believe you should read this.

I really hope you're trying to be sarcastic or ironic - otherwise there isn't a clue stick big enough. The 'only way' isn't. There are several. All methods of interception require money, some require legislation and the rest require subterfuge and technical skill. In this case I imagine it's very simple. The state has a law saying it's legal for certain agencies to intercept calls in order to protect national security. The state's telecoms provider(s) purchase interception equipment from telecoms hardware providers. It gets plugged in and switched on. The state uses it. No conspiracy, no mad l33t skillz, no drama. Except possibly for the subjects/victims of the interception. For examples of legal intercept equipment, see http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEkQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2Fweb%2Fabout%2Fsecurity%2Fintelligence%2FLI-3GPP.html&ei=CWy3Td-NNZS1hAe6_8H3Dg&usg=AFQjCNGEKGTT3PTOMkB172TvxVlkqgMKZg or http://www.scribd.com/doc/49742557/50/Legal-Interception-Gateway-LIG There is of course the relatively recent case of illegal intercept, in Greece. There it came to light that politicians and other high profile figures had their mobils calls tapped. On investigation, one of the country's mobile providers found that someone had installed, configured and turned on the 'legal intercept' software/hardware to do the tapping. Here's the rub - it wasn't done by the government company or home intelligence service. So who did it and why?

Unleaded fuel costs twice as much in the UK as it does in the US. I have a hard time believing that British delivery trucks are that much more efficient than their new world counterparts. Scale is certainly the issue, and so the reason this is newsworthy is that Wal-Mart is the first American company that has the scale to deal with the sprawl in the States at a national level.