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The games industry is being often quite poor at providing even relatively simple aids for disabled players, such as closed captioning and button remapping.
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"From China's strategic pork reserve to a future where insects are the new white meat, 10 reasons we really are what we eat." Mostly included for the phrase 'strategic pork reserve'.
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Home Office proposes minimum income threshold for those wishing to bring a spouse, partner or dependents to the country. It's yet another thing that sounds tough, will mess with people's lives and happiness, but doesn't actually reduce the numbers that much. Note that there's no investigation of whether the spouse can support themselves, can work; it's an automatic "You must be able to pay for your other half to have them" thing. Russian brides incorporated into law, perhaps?
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"Today we’re excited to announce BrowserID: an experimental new way of signing into websites. Our goal with BrowserID was to design something safe and easy for users and the developers."
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"There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief — of the black-humor variety — in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy."
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Discussion of the general lack of non–white people in fantasy novels, and indeed lack of Italian-looking people playing Romans and Italians. Blames it largely on visual shortcuts, such as a red haired, befreckled boy being an earnest and reliable sidekick. Reminds me of Anansi Boys, where the majority of the main characters are black, and IIRC it mentions when a character is white, but not when they're black.
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