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Greatest Invention since 1800

BBC Radio 4 did a survey to find the greatest invention since 1800. Surprisingly, well for me anyway, the bicycle came out top with half the vote.
Apparently, the bicycle won for its simplicity of design, universal use, and because it is an ecologically sound means of transport.
The full results were:

Bicycle - 59%
Transistor - 8%
Electro-magnetic [...]

9May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Who is Tony Blair?

Very funny tool.
Try typing in your name or somebody else’s name and you’ll be surprised with what it returns back - let me know if you get an answers that make you chuckle.
I put in ‘Tony Blair’ and it came up with the 93 results - the first 10 were:

Tony Blair is that he tells [...]

4May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Off-topic: Sith Happens

Great post by Chris that questions the quality of the latest Star Wars Trilogy.
As I was growing up at school I wasn’t a very big fan of Star Wars - maybe because even as a child I thought it was a bit strange for boys to be playing with dolls…
At Uni I got sucked into [...]

15Apr2005 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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What is Epic? Google to merge with Amazon?

The video below predicts the outcome of a merger between Google and Amazon, and presents a pretty bleak prediction for the future of the media and the web - is this the future of blogging/news/media?
Thought provoking stuff, though I’m not sure it’s that realistic.

25Mar2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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