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Britain's strict ad-standards regulators offered a Christmas gift to Apple yesterday: it ruled that ads claiming Windows is less stable than OSX--and more vulnerable to infection-- were truthful.

Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Dyson not to repeat an ad that claims its vacuum cleaners don't rely on filters and don't clog.

The ruling, which follows a complaint from competitor Hoover, comes despite Dyson having cleared its claims before running the ad.

Times of London:

Here's a flowchart showing how Cleanfeed -- the secret British national firewall that is presently restricting access to Wikipedia - operates:

The Atlas of True Names contains maps with very literal place names.

Called the "Atlas of True Names," the new map traces the etymological roots of European and global place names and then translates them into English. The "City of Boatmen" is also known as Paris. Should you travel to the Land of the Fire Keepers, you'd find yourself in Azerbaijan. And Italy comes from the Latin word vitulus, which means "calf."

Jeremy Scahill
AlterNet
November 21, 2008