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Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets, study finds | Technology | The Guardian

I'm reading Bad Pharma at the moment, and it's... enlightening. I already knew the pharma industry was rotten, but this book shows in explicit detail HOW rotten the entire regulatory and scientific publishing system is. Thought I'd share it, as I know are are a few more pharma haters here...

Rosacea may be caused by mite faeces in your pores - health - 30 August 2012 - New Scientist Yum.

Anyone know a decent Managed VPS provider? I know Liquidweb were popular for a while, but now aren't. Preferably with UK data centers. Looking for quality over price. Ta muchly.

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I've just been checking out financial management software, and come across this: Personal Budget Software - Finance Software for Windows & Mac It looks very good compared to things like Quicken and Gnucash, because it's actually based around a methodology (building up a buffer) rather than...

Hi, Does anyone why 95% of the goat-herders in the world are from Afghanistan? I didn't have a problem with this for ages, but ever since the war, they're all either dead or growing opium so I need to look elsewhere. I've been trying for ages to find someone in another country to mind my...

I don't drink a huge amount of coffee (maybe about 1-pint of moka-pot strength a day), but I'm getting so I feel I can't work without it. I woke up the other morning worrying about going to my parents' house because they only have shitty instant. I'm not a fan of being addicted to stuff, so...

I think this sums it up pretty accurately.

I'm sure I can't be the only one who has way too many business ideas to actually implement, and I know people often complain they can't think of an idea for a business. So here goes... a thread to post stuff that you think someone else might be able to pick up and run with. Here's my first...

Posted this in Hosting + Domains, but there was nothing but tumbleweeds there, so reposting here: I'm looking into setting up a business doing low cost high volume wordpress sites in the UK for a particular niche. WPMU looks like the easiest way to manage deployment/updates. Anyone got...

I've known about this site for a while, but another thread reminded me of it. Check this out: CAR LEASING CHEAP LEASE CARS SALES CAR LEASING CHEAP CONTRACT HIRE DEALS Ling's Cars does >$5Million revenue PER MONTH of car leasing. It's worth checking out, cos amongst the visual nightmare...

I'm looking into setting up a business doing low cost high volume wordpress sites in the UK for a particular niche. WPMU looks like the easiest way to manage deployment/updates. Anyone got recommendations for a good host? Will need to be UK based. Would Linode be suitable for this?

I'm curious.... what was your relationship with your mother like?