The content is also published on twitter.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1223931569426952192

Aside from football, cycling is the most popular sport in Belgium. Maybe the bicycle market is saturated?

Has this got anything to do with the Digg acquisition, and it's patent on “click a button to vote up a story” ?

The 4th gen Shuffle is the 2nd gen, but slightly smaller and with the VoiceOver technology. If you loved the 2nd gen, you'll love it.

At that point, you could of just done a bit of identity theft and bought yourself a new MBP.

Being able to control your impulses and operate with some level of civilized executive function makes your identity worth stealing, because you're likely to have good credit. Petty thieves and other criminal morons are unlikely to have an identity worth stealing.

And that doesn't mention that you'd be committing a crime.

Yeah, I decided from the start that I wanted to stay on the right side of the law on this. Plus it was stolen from my house, so the guy knows where I live.

I had that as well. No strange IP addresses are listed as having accessed it, so I assume it's safe.

It's generally acknowledged that Yelena Isinbayeva has been doing exactly that in the pole vault over the last few years.

And Sergei Bubka before him. Bubka set 18 indoor and 17 outdoor world records in the space of 10 years, often beating is old record by only 1 or 2 cm. There is no way he would have jumped like that if he didn't get a bonus for each record he set.

Does it really update signatures every 5 minutes?

Seems a bit excessive.

Yeah, but it makes people feel better :)

When it comes to the accuracy of historical numbers, I always think of the size of the Persian army at Thermopylae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Persian_a...

Historical accounts were still a form of propaganda back then.

And still are today. Seriously, try watching the same event covered by CNN vs a foreign news source, I won't even mention other cable news channels.

Although the World Cup is the most well known (and watched) soccer tournament, it isn't that representative of soccer.

1. It's mainly a knockout tournament which obviously increases the variance

2. International sides aren't a cohesive team like domestic club sides only playing a handful of times per year leading up to the tournaments.

Compare this to the domestic leagues where the league format reduces the variance and players spend most of the year working with who they're playing with on the pitch. In the EPL, the #1 ranked side going into the season probably wins the league 75% of the time. It's a much lower number though for the domestic cups because of the knockout format.