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Airport security worker lost his job after posting celebrity photo to facebook - Yahoo!7 - Totaltravel

Airport security worker lost his job after posting celebrity photo to facebook - Yahoo!7 - Totaltravel : City of Derry Airport security worker, Alex Duffy, told the Belfast Telegraph his life is on the skids after having his photo taken with Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle and subsequently posting it to Facebook.
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Anonymous hacks North Korea’s Twitter account, posts funny picture of Kim Jong-un | Niti Central
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via @Summly - Little Narberth Museum in running for Britain's biggest art prize

Here's a summary of an article from Guardian Art: Little Narberth Museum in running for Britain's biggest art prize, http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/apr/02/narberth-museum-britain-biggest-art-prize Sent from mobile Tuesday 2 April 2013 19.45 BST Little Narberth Museum in running for Britain's biggest art prize Museum minnow in heart of Pembrokeshire countryside joins 10-strong shortlist for £100,000 Art Fund Prize [Narberth Museum]Narberth Museum in Pembrokeshire, Wales, which has been shortlisted for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for museum of the year. Photograph: The Art Fund/PA Mark Brown< http://m.guardian.co.uk/profile/markbrown >, arts correspondent One claim to fame held by the tiny Welsh market town of Narberth is that its inhabitants were in the thick of the 19th century Rebecca Riots< http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/lesson48.htm >where angry farmers would dress as women to pull down tollgates and storm workhouses. Today it is better
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via @Summly - Little Narberth Museum in running for Britain's biggest art prize

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The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead | RAND

the parallels between the printing press era and today are sufficiently compelling to suggest : Changes in the information age will be as dramatic as those in the Middle Ages in Europe.  The printing press has been implicated in the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, all of which had profound effects on their eras; similarly profound changes may already be underway in the information age. The future of the information age will be dominated by unintended consequences.  The Protestant Reformation and the shift from an earth-centered to a sun-centered universe were unintended consequences in the printing press era. We are already seeing unintended consequences in the information age that are dominating intended ones and there are good reasons to expect more in the future. Thus, the  technologists  are unlikely to be accurate and the  inventors  may neither have their intended effects nor be the most important determinants of information age progress. It will be
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Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial - Yahoo! Singapore Finance

Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial - Yahoo! Singapore Finance : After coming under near-daily media assault for the past two weeks and facing the threat of penalties from two Chinese government bureaus, Apple apologized to Chinese consumers on Monday for poor communication over its warranty policy and said it will change the terms for some of its iPhones sold in China.
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