The Other Compost: August 2017

Sunday, 27 August 2017

Great Big Story

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August 27, 2017 at 07:42AM via IFTTT

Saturday, 26 August 2017

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August 26, 2017 at 05:19PM via IFTTT

Mobile coffee business in Northamptonshire 'more expensive to run than a zoo'

A Northamtonshire man is questioning local authority logic after discovering that obtaining a licence to run a zoo is cheaper than starting up his mobile coffee firm.

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August 26, 2017 at 01:23PM via IFTTT

Friday, 25 August 2017

What's really the point of wasps?

A new citizen science survey aims to shed light on that fixture of summertime in the outdoors: the wasp. Though much maligned, these fascinating creatures perform a vital ecological role, say scientists.

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August 25, 2017 at 08:38PM via IFTTT

Thursday, 24 August 2017

Jon Snow: Facebook a threat to democracy

Facebook should do more to tackle the spread of "cancerous" fake news, and help fund original journalism, newsreader Jon Snow has said. The journalist, who has presented Channel 4 News since 1989, gave the MacTaggart Lecture at the annual Edinburgh TV festival.

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August 24, 2017 at 10:33PM via IFTTT

Monday, 21 August 2017

Facebook has a “Facebook-nevers” problem, and it’s getting worse

The eyeballs of tweens and teens are always coveted by advertisers. According to new data from eMarketer, both Instagram and Snapchat will see usage rates rise in the double digits among the younger demographic in the U.S. and U.K. over the next year.

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August 21, 2017 at 10:01PM via IFTTT

5 Questions to Help Your Employees Find Their Inner Purpose

How can leaders help employees find meaning at work?

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August 21, 2017 at 07:13AM via IFTTT

Sunday, 20 August 2017

Pcso Kirsten on Twitter

Afternoon spent speaking with the parents of 3 young persons caught at the top of this 660ft mast! Positive action will be taken #daventry

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August 20, 2017 at 06:02PM via IFTTT

Saturday, 19 August 2017

On The Tools

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August 19, 2017 at 08:15AM via IFTTT

Thursday, 17 August 2017

Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

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August 17, 2017 at 07:40PM via IFTTT

Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Britain’s seaside ruins

On 5 May 1962, the first fare-paying flight of new British airline Euravia took off from Manchester’s Ringway Airport. It was full of working-class families on an all-inclusive tour – one taking them far from traditional seaside holiday destinations like Blackpool, Cleethorpes and Skegness.

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August 16, 2017 at 08:47PM via IFTTT

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Angry People in Local Newspapers Submission Guide

Angry People in Local Newspapers is a visual medium, which means we want news articles with pictures in them. And – as a rule – the picture should be of people who are angry at something.

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August 15, 2017 at 10:17PM via IFTTT

Ron’s Ronosaurus v2.0: The Angry People in Local Newspapers Glossary

We thought it were high time that we made a glossary page of all the items we use on APILN. We’ll be adding more as we go along, and we’ll even try to keep it vaguely alphabetical, so bear with. A-Boards – The means that local newspapers use to advertise their wares.

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August 15, 2017 at 10:17PM via IFTTT

Web firm fights DOJ on Trump protesters

The Department of Justice (DOJ) wants the IP addresses of all visitors - some 1.3 million - to a website that helped organise a protest on the day of President Trump's inauguration. DreamHost is currently refusing to comply with the request and is due in court later this month.

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August 15, 2017 at 06:55PM via IFTTT

Monday, 14 August 2017

MANPONS launch in Britain to shake up the male hygiene product market

The male hygiene product giant Manpax has announced that Manpons will shortly be launching in Britain to shake up the male hygiene products market.

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August 14, 2017 at 09:50PM via IFTTT

Saturday, 12 August 2017

Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949.

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August 12, 2017 at 10:21PM via IFTTT

Robert Rankin

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August 12, 2017 at 09:46PM via IFTTT

The weird and wonderful world of pub games

"As long as there were pubs and inns there were always games," says historian and 'doctor of darts' Patrick Chaplin. While his PhD is in the social history of that pursuit, the world of pub pastimes is far from restricted to the dartboard or the pool table.

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August 12, 2017 at 07:03AM via IFTTT

Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Password guru regrets past advice

The author of an influential guide to computer passwords says he now regrets several of the tips he gave.

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August 09, 2017 at 06:43PM via IFTTT