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• Rax Interview with Thom Yorke

  "…people find it harder and harder as they get further sucked into their lives to see how things could be different. It requires energy. It also requires you to imagine it for them. Nothing can be done if it has not first been imagined."

• Africa betrayed

  International intervention does nothing to help - even promises of aid are unfulfilled.

• Deemed dispensible

  We allow animal species, languages and customs die out at our peril.

• Buddhists at loggerheads

  2008-05-30

  ‘It’s too confusing for me,’ I heard a student confessing outside Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre. To the right was a group of Tibetan exiles with their brightly coloured flags, here to greet the Dalai Lama on the Oxford leg of his UK tour.

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  Vanessa Baird

• Faith schools debate

  2009-04-16

  Is there a place for faith schools in a multicultural society? We want to know your views.

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  Dinyar Godrej

• Uncovering the true "face" of Perl

  2009-08-12

  Following on the last post about "Prettier Perl Web sites" and taking Sebastian Riedel's "Don’t explain what you think would look better, just make a mockup and show us!" challenge to heart, I spent some time looking at Perl's existing design patterns.

  Specifically, I wanted to take a closer look at two established Perl "brands" and to expose the underlying elements of their design consistency; the typography, colours, and so on. The two I chose -- because they look like they were developed by professionals, and not some 12-year-old with access to GIMP -- are The Perl Foundation and O'Reilly Media's Perl books.

  In this post, I'll focus on The Perl Foundation. Let's start with the logo:

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  Phillip Smith

• How to find $700 billion without really trying

  2008-09-25

  and save the world

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  David Ransom

• Have your say!

  2009-04-23

  Do you have ideas for topics you'd like to read about in the NI in the next year?

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  David Ransom