links for 2008-11-17

"The Guardian has learned there are at least several hundred, and perhaps even as many as 1,000, unidentified bodies in churchyards, crematoria and morgues that have been found but not identified in the UK over the past few decades".

"The Reader team is happy to announce that another 20% project has come to fruition: automatic translation in Reader! Post by 20% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar". All your 'rotten meat' translation are belong to Google!

"The email was written by Kris Boobyer, 25, from Oliver's enquiry team, and had been intended as an internal joke between him and the chef's publicist Peter Berry, but it was accidentally copied into the formal response". D'oh, the f***in' humanity etc etc...

Fron the comments (of course!): "Do the awful comments tarnish our brand? Depends on your point of view, I guess; I tend to think that the over-the-top sensational crap that we frequently produce during sweeps is a lot more damaging to our news brand than the weirdos that fight over football and politics on our comment boards". Amen to that! [via Martin Stabe and elsewhere]

"A trawl of newspaper websites suggests that one or other of these stories gets reported about twice a month, with wronged parents slightly more common than wronged children. Wronged social workers don't exist". Some slightly more reflective writing about the Baby P case than most found elsewhere

Video of Tom Armitage's LED Guardian swing-o-meter hardware hack.

A display of 42 docks from designers. As a relative newbie to the Mac, I'm still extremely prone to breaking off mid-sentence when talking to Mac users and suddenly going 'Ooh, let me see, how is your doc configured?'