A nice positive story for a Friday. More of this please! 🙂
More than 9,000 miles of rivers were diverted underground or re-routed as Britain’s cities expanded during the Victorian era.
Now the Environment Agency is set to uncover so-called “lost rivers”, and return them to the nation.
Ben Moore visits Manchester’s Medlock, known for running red, white and blue in the 1800s, but lost for a century.
Via Washington Post
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
I no longer trust Google to “do no evil” and look after my privacy.
In fact I no longer trust Google.
As my first step in protest I’ll be deleting my G+ profile at the end of the week.
