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Hop picking, some time between 1926 and 1942. Photo by The National Archives UK on Flickr. Some rights reserved A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team The National Archives Labs >> National Archives It's not only Google which has labs. And the National Archives ones are rather cool. Microsoft meets reality as luddite scribes cover Office 2010 launch >> TechFlash "As I point out to Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop in the video above, many of the company's customers aren't yet on board with its vision for the present -- as evidenced by the reporters and bloggers scribbling on their notepads in front of him. "Not exactly what Microsoft had in mind when it unveiled the Tablet PC and its OneNote software toward the beginning of the last decade." How To Phish, Protect Your Email, and Defeat Copy-And-Paste with CSS >> Aza on Design CSS isn't just for the good stuff. Though if you read the article in a feed reader, it may be rather confusing. Why Minority Report was spot on >>| The Guardian Eight years after the film came out, we look at how correct it was. Compare... A look at the future technology of film Minority Report >> The Guardian ...and contrast with this 2002 version, when the film had just come out. MPs Expenses Review >> Stuff.co.nz If this looks familiar, it's because it's using a template like that used by the Guardian to review UK MPs' expenses. Get in! Nokia Slashes Second-Quarter Forecast on Weak Smartphone Performance >> John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Or as the headline on the blog post puts it, "Losing the Smartphone War One Ugly Pink Handset at a Time". I simply cannot believe that that product got through any sort of testing on anything sentient. Adobe knocks Apple for serving up outdated Flash Player >> Computerworld The new 10.6.4 update has an old - buggy, vulnerable - version of Flash Player included; you should update. iPhone 4 price plans >> Orange Note the clever use of * so that unlimited* actually means "limited". The asterisk serves like a mathematical function which negates the preposition. The Thick of IT >> ZDNet UK How Rupert Goodwins got hold of the Cabinet Office email list: by accident. Someone else's. Cue Malcolm Tucker-ish imaginings, some redaction, and a shredder. About that 1 billion Microsoft Office figure ... >> ZDNet MaryJo Foley thinks: if Microsoft is saying that 1bn people rely on Office to get thing done at work, home and school, and if there's 1bn PCs out there, where's my copy? You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious