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BBC News WhatsApp Goof

In the modern world news is happening every second somewhere in the world and various media outlets like to keep on top of things as soon as they happen - and as you may know from when you've been typing something really quickly (or if you touch-type) you do make the odd few errors along the way and no more so than what BBC News did, after sending out a headline alert about WhatsApp's acquision for $16 million by Facebook (I'm going to save the pointless rant about them aquiring the service to myself - as it was/is a pointless... [read more]

Christmas Offends Muslims

Well the wonders of social media, here daily to help recirculate stuff that's been around since the dawn of time and make it seem like it's something brand new and exclusive.

Well, here's a prime example. I noticed a fair few people posting and "sharing" this newspaper headline, "Christmas Is Banned: It Offends Muslims" on Facebook earlier...

I also had a flick through a few comments on it too (there were thousands, so couldn't have gone through every single one of them) and it's amazing that people are thinking this is a recent headline... [read more]