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  1. wintonian

    New Zealand votes in favour of same sex marrage

    How many countries is that now that have legalised some form of same sex marriage? Anyway I do wish our parliament was like this instead of shouting insults at each other all the time. :) DW4DXOAXF8U The results of the vote are announced NZ parliament TV
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    National Route Number Plan

    Although this is an April Fool from Omnibuses, I was wondering about the merits of this idea and being all in favour of integrated transport it made me think; could this actually be implemented in a workable way? In case anyone was wondering Norman's DfT Door to Door strategy does actually...
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    Orthodox Jew flies in plastic bag to avoid traveling over cemeteries

    No not an April Fool although given the date of this article over at the DM I thought it was, but alas no this really is true (apparently), even the Jewish press (and here) have reported on it. I'm kind of at a loss for words, dumbfounded and confused by this one perhaps someone could enlighten...
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    Google releases tool to deal with your data after death

    Seems like progress to me. Washington Post
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    Walton bus driver 'ordered mother and crying child off bus'

    I admit to sometimes silently wishing parents would carry Laudanum these days but I wouldn't chuck them off. On the other hand I expect nothing less from a Frstbus operation. :roll: BBC
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    Bishopstone (Sussex)

    Just been checking out Google Maps and wondered is that a pillbox on top of Bishopstone station? :shock:
  7. wintonian

    Preserving the World Wide Web

    It seems that the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library and Trinity College Dublin, are now able to preserve the UK's (and Ireland's?) contributions to the web. The British Library to commemorate this...
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    Google maps April Fool: Explore Treasure Mode

    I thought this was one of the better Google April Fools, although it's a bit late now I still thought it was worth a share. :) Link to tresure maps. Google+ for anyone that way inclined. _qFFHC0eIUc
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    Chilli Easter egg 'hotter than a vindaloo'

    BBC Good grief, how far can you take a marketing gimmick? A nice madras is enough for me.
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    Southern's - First-time Londoner Train Adventures

    Southern's latest marketing gimmick has 4 people who are supposedly new to London taking part in a series of challenges to learn about and demonstrate how easy rail travel is. Personally I am not convinced, for instance how many people think that the challengers themselves negotiated chose...
  11. wintonian

    Take a look inside the Kings Cross signal box

    Take a look inside the Kings Cross signal box. Thought this BBC video might interest people. :) Synopsis
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    For journeys via X see code Y, etc. etc.

    A little moan if I may, Why is it necessary to have all of the following in the same restriction. Do the people who write these things even understand them?: :-x :roll: A list of station each with a different restriction code For travel via N the restriction from O also applies Valid on...
  13. wintonian

    Canvey Island school bans triangle shaped flapjacks

    BBC I've highlighted part of the comments by the very astute H&S people - if only the school demonstrated similar levels of intellect. :|
  14. wintonian

    Domestic (& continental) ferries

    Here's a topic which I think has been sorely neglected here. Yesterday I was standing out on Haslar marina looking out to HMS's Illustrious, Victory and Warrior, watching the Gosport ferry and the Wightlink Cat whilst the MV Normandie was leaving harbour. Whilst observing all this I was...
  15. wintonian

    Disabled Railcard - crteria review

    Had an email this afternoon containing the following paragraph Just thought people might like to be aware and I'm aware that there are a few other people around here with one.
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    Travel Warrents - do they expire?

    As in the title really do travel warrants have to be used with in a certain time limit?
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    Car left on island of asphalt by Edinburgh Waverley workers

    BBC I wasn't sure whether to put this in infrastructure or not but then I thought it fitted in quite nicely with Edinburgh's caravan. STV has video footage of the car, with the headline "Is this your car? Mercedes left stranded at Waverley car park".
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    Google search thinks I'm a bot

    Thankfully I don't use Google search that often but I do find it more through then my usual engine of choice, but today I have started receiving the "we have detected unusual traffic from your IP etc." message and I can't seem to pass the dam CAPTCHA. Does anyone have a method for getting...
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    Tracking Julian Assange's mail

    From the BBC The website can be found here with all the pics (slow loading). I have one question about this - Why? The mind boggles!
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    $852 quadrillion 'death star' will not be built

    According to the Huffington Post the US will not be investing in the ability to blow up planets at the moment. The chief of the Science and Space Branch cited key points as: The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working...

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