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Saturday, 23 July 2011

LinkTank 23/07

This week's unkempt rabble.

Regarding nudging, we shouldn't be asking ‘does it work?’ rather ‘what gives them the right?’

The booming New York market for bootlegged rice wine

A Time gallery of colour images of war-torn London

Mum charged with vehicular manslaughter for losing control of her kid crossing a road

GPs agree bans on operations for smokers and obese patients

New Zealand bans over 100 unusual baby names

Democracy the cause, not the victim of press abuse

Councils are acting on near zero risk

Five health benefits of smoking

The world's biggest McDonald's coming to London 2012

Pubs who resorted to live music post-2007 are kicked again

Celibate insects
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Posted by Dick Puddlecote at 11:05
Labels: Link Tank

1 comment:

Angry Exile said...

Wonder if Harper Seven would have made the cut in NZ. Actually I had no idea our neighbours over the ditch did this as well or I'd have taken the piss out of them for it.

23 July 2011 at 15:38

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