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Wednesday Jan 25, 2006
Think not what your Tory can do for you...
David Cameron has decided that choosing to volunteer might not be enough to help out young people. He's proposing the idea of a national service (though without the fun stuff like guns) of community action. After all, if you strip away all funding for local government who else is gonna clean the canal apart from a bunch of young people desperate for an extra-cirricular activity to give their degree some kind of value?
Of course the big question is - if you take the voluntary out of volunteering what's do you call yourself? A compulseer? A peace-core? A slave?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4642334.stm
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End obesity through video games
"Konami's Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) is being installed in 157 middle schools in West Virginia to encourage physical activity and help fight obesity. The game has already been tested in a pilot project in 20 schools, and will be installed in 753 schools within three years."
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Google agrees to provide censored version in China
This story is everywhere right now. Google, the company that has the famous motto "do no evil" has agreed to provide a special, censored version of its search engine for Chinese users. The company's argument is that it's better to be in there in some way than pull out completely.
This comes just days after Google was in the press for another reason, this time supporting its position as a company that believes in the freedom and privacy of its users. Unlike MSN and Yahoo, Google refused to hand over search logs (information on what people are searching for) to the US Justice Department; the government is hoping these logs would help them push through a law which has been widely condemned as unworkable and unconstitutional.
Both stories illustrate the massive role search engines now play in the way people live and governments govern.
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