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The week in hashtags: #TheQueenTweets, #FCKH8, #NoJustice, #OttawaStrong
The Queen got in on the act, time went backwards and Twitter got angry... again. Here are the most important hashtags from the past week. #NoJustice, #ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence When Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for the culpable homicide of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Tuesday (as little as 10 months of which could actually…
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” voted best song to listen to when ill
Queen's anthemic song Bohemian Rhapsody has been voted the best track to listen to if you're feeling down or unwell. The results were gathered by ComRes for BBC local radio for Faith in the World Week, which is exploring the healing powers of music. ComRes polled 1,000 people and gave them 10 choices. Dancing Queen by Abba came second,…
Words that have whole new meanings, thanks to social media
'On a cold winter's evening, the whole family would gather round the wireless... because Virgin Media broadband was down to 2Mbps again.' For as long as it has existed, the internet has been taking words and claiming them as its own. Post, thread, status; all terms that would have entirely different meanings on Downton Abbey than they…
“Photobomb”, “adorkable” among latest additions to Collins English Dictionary
The terms 'twerking', 'photobomb' and 'meme' are among the latest to be added to the print edition of the Collins English Dictionary, Huffington Post reports. They're just a couple of the whopping 50,000 new entries which have been added to the dictionary's 12th edition. Also making the cut are 'Bitcoin' and 'onesie'. More obscure entries include…
Hungary to tax internet usage, public says No way
Hungary is steeling itself to become the first country in the world to tax people for internet usage, Reuters has reported. In a draft tax bill submitted to parliament yesterday, provisions were outlined for internet providers to pay a hefty 150 forints (37 pence) per gigabyte of data traffic in tax. It would, however, allow companies to offset corporate…
Dachshund’s Creek is the ’90s reboot you didn’t know you needed
Dawson’s Creek was great in its day: the ‘90s, back before any of us had actual worries and were happy to listen to overly loquacious teenagers string self-important sentences together and watch endless permutations of the Dawson-Joey-Pacey-Jen ‘love square’. (No wonder creator Kevin Williamson finally snapped and killed one of them off. The wrong one,…
Is this the best Halloween costume ever?
What happens when you attach LEDs to a toddler in a stick-man formation and film her running around? Here's what - a video that's been viewed more than 22 million times on YouTube, and a truly awesome business idea. As the Telegraph reports, what started out as a bit of fun has been turned into…
Oscar Pistorius, and 5 other shocking murder trials
This morning, it was announced that Oscar Pistorius will serve a five-year prison sentence for the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. He was also given a three-year suspended sentence for a firearms charge. The trial, which lasted for seven months, was widely televised, giving it added immediacy and allowing people…
Haters gonna hate: how 5 celebrities deal with Twitter trolls
The House of Lords will debate this week whether the maximum sentence for online abusers should be raised from six months to two years. Following a string of high-profile cases, this news has been welcomed by many. But even us ordinary folk suffer from so-called 'trolling' sometimes - so what are the best ways of…
The week in hashtags: #NeverOK, #StandUp2Cancer, #BringBackOurGirls
#NeverOK Exeter University has launched Never Ok, its campaign against sexual harassment. Inspired by Manchester Uni's We Get It campaign earlier this year, it's also a response to a recent NUS survey on 'lad culture', which found that two thirds of students had heard rape jokes on campus, while 50 per cent of students felt there was…
