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Links for Friday 5 June 2009

YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009: I finally got round to watching this demo. I rarely need collaborative tools and I like plain text email. And yet this really looks like the future. Worth setting aside some time to watch until the end.
LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished: Very long but very worth reading, on the collapse of the banks. One day I hope there’s a book called "John Lanchester Explains Everything".

5 Jun 2009 at Twitter

10:31am: The plumber in the kitchen is swearing a lot. This can't be good.
10:36am: Phew, he just needed an extra pair of hands for a minute. I had visions of a kitchen filling with water.
02:37pm: @megpickard Didn't @tom_watson step down a few days ago?
10:28pm: Catching up with the excellent BBC Chart Blog when I should be going to bed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/cha...
10:34pm: But am alarmed the BBC Chart Blog mentions "your mum" watching Flashdance and "your dad" listening to the Verve. Feeling old.