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“Yes, we admit we are human too. We apologise that this thing happened.”

Greenpeace campaign manager Von Hernandez on the damage caused by its flagship Rainbow Warrior II to a world heritage site coral reef in the Philippines that the environmental campaigners were supposed to protect (Philippine Star, 5 November)

“When you’ve got three kids getting ready for school…and the network isn’t working because it needs an upgrade… you’re going to go straight to your garage and get your sledgehammer.”

Ian Pearson, futurist-in-residence at British Telecom, on potential pitfalls of the totally networked home (Wired News, 8 November)

“Some people took five years, some people took…

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