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So: the riots. Or the lootings. Or a few thousand morons who think they live in a 50 Cent video acting like scumbags. The rolling news coverage has been a mixed bag, with dramatic footage (often lifted from YouTube) combined with the usual parade of self-proclaimed ‘experts’ telling us how it’s all the fault of that Twitter/the rap music that they have nowadays/the cuts/lack of national service/the lack of stringing up bad people/benefits/Facebook/consumer culture/clothing with hoods rather than a sizeable minority of Britain’s youth being a bunch of selfish scumbags going for the whole "dilution of responsibility" thing.

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George Costanza becomes a hardened criminal, forever being hauled off to chokey by the cops. Until a spell in prison sees him vow to make a change, and inspired by his fathers health problems he becomes a champion of good causes. A heartwarming tale of redemption.

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The internet used to be simultaneously the MOST EXCITING THING EVAAR and a bit rubbish. MTV News reports in what the uploader of the video says is 1995, but we think is probably actually 1996.

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Youve gotsta love Belgian noise scientists Soulwax. Not only do they make loads of astonishingly good what we still call mixtapes, commendably sticking with the whole mash-up thing a decade after it stopped being fashionable, but theyve made a free iWhatever app allowing you to download or listen to them all. You can also listen to them over the internet at 2ManyDJs.com, but best of all, it seems many of them are on YouTube, allowing us to embed one of them here.

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You know when you hear something really good, and think I am SO putting that on YouTube so more people can hear it, but then realise lots of other people have had the same idea so you dont need to bother doing it?

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After a week of banging on about a now-defunct newspaper (just before it relaunches with a new name but without several dozen salaried employees who hadnt stopped to think why working for a company where union membership is forbidden might be a bad idea), back to telly stuff. Have you ever wanted to carry The Light Channel around in your pocket? Well NOW YOU CAN, with the ITV Player app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Here is our mildly comprehensive review. Of it.

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And thats the end of that chapter. Except, of course, it isnt.

Unless Murdoch is going to relaunch Today as a Sunday-only newspaper, its pretty clear what is about to happen. Well be surprised if theres even a gap between the News of the World closing and a replacement popping up in its place, considering thatd let the two Mirror Group red tops pick up a bunch of extra readers. So, we may as well get this done nice and early

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[UPDATE 7pm WEDS 6th JULY: The flyer and all uploads now updated to include the latest news. If you downloaded it before, you might want to nab the latest version as well. Many thanks to everyone whos mentioned the flyer on Twitter, Facebook, various web forums and the Guardian comments section. Feel free to adapt, amend, mirror or host any versions of that flyer yourself. Get that message out there!]

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The News of the World phone hacking scandal rumbles on, with fresh allegations that the paper targeted the families of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. A Twitter-led campaign to boycott the newspaper has been rumbling on since the story broke, along with a concerted campaign requesting that a number of companies re-evaluate their advertising spend. Some members of the public are even phoning the News of the World newsline (0207 782 1001), yelling a certain word starting with the letter C, then hanging up.

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