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British journalist & political columnist John Rentoul is writing a book on this: Questions To Which The Answer Is No.

Since 2009 he has curated examples at http://blogs.independent.co.uk/tag/headline/

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> For one dollar a lottery player purchases entertainment and maybe even a bit of optimism for a little bit of time.

  And above all there is gambling, the cheapest of all
  luxuries. Even people on the verge of starvation can 
  buy a few days' hope ('Something to live for', as they
  call it) by having a penny on a sweepstake.

-- George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, chapter 5

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I have no firsthand experience but 1984.is run a free DNS that I have heard mentioned a few times.

http://1984hosting.com will take you to their English site (although the What is FreeDNS? page is in Icelandic).

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Clay Johnson has a book and website, "The Information Diet: a case for conscious consumption", on this topic:

http://www.informationdiet.com/

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According to the roadmap[1], a proof of concept will be done in Q2, and an alpha and a beta sometime in the second half of the year.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

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It's more physics than pure maths, but artist & art critic Matthew Collings made a documentary for the BBC called "Beautiful Equations". More info here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wltbm

Submissions

The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer (BBC iPlayer)

TU Me - Telefonica's Skype competitor

Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth on shaking up system software

Banquo - measuring Shakespeare's digital heartbeat

Web War II: What a future cyberwar will look like

Digital Economy Act's anti-piracy measures are delayed

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) now available

Home Office website blocked; 'Anonymous' hackers blamed

China arrests after kidney sold for iPad

In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet?

Paypal Here offers stores smartphone credit card reader

New generation bionics - wireless and touch-sensitive

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