I recently had a telephone conversation with a doctor that offered amongst other thing co-codamol on prescription. UK prescription charges are currently £7.10 – the same product can be bought in all pharmacies over the counter for under £2 and online for 49p.
Why can’t they pop a post-it on the prescription for simple over [...]

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Without a doubt this is the coolest advert I’ve seen this year so far!

Just remember that bottled water is no good for the environment!

Like all adverts that are better than half the re-runs it comes with a “how we did it” video too.

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I love the idea of abusing the fact that spammers are in a hurry. Traffic Control checks all the geeky check-boxes of a SMTP proxy I should take a closer look at.
So the first thing I do once I can netcat to the proxy and check it’s running is fire up a “tcpflow -c -i [...]

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Is Wogan going to quit after the political voting appeared to break his ethical bone?

Whilst talking about Kevin Bishop his producer quitting, Sir Terry said:
“He and I have to decide whether we want to do this again. Indeed, western european participants have to decide whether they want to take part from here on in.”
The situation [...]

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I looked at the MailChannels “free beer” edition yesterday and decided that 10k/day is not enough for my personal mailhost.

$ grep -c connect /var/log/mail.log.1
28652

...and yesterday wasn’t a busy day either.

IMHO it’d have much better adoption if it had been free for non-commercial use like MT Etc. since it has wide appeal to the hobbyist [...]

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NIN have for some time been uploading their work to trackers but today is the next step. After releasing a free track on facebook yesterday to generate buzz they have now released their new album “the slip” to the web for free, with thanks for fans loyal support.
http://theslip.nin.com/

Looks like http://topspin.net are involved – I can’t [...]

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