September 2008
28 posts
Sky told to hand over footy and film rights • The... →
I thought this article looked quite promising until I realised that they only mean sharing this content with other “pay” TV channels. I’m still bemused and a little dumb struck at the number of people who happily pay for their sports but it annoys me that we can’t see big national football games without paying a subscription. And the Murdoch clan aren’t ever getting...
Cheeky Chinaman waves a flag in space →
Tremendous achievement but quite a lot of trouble to go to to wave a flag round a bit.
Twatdangler - David Blaine • The Register →
Pilot completes jetpack challenge →
So does that mean one day we’ll all be heading off to work by jetpack? Or down the post office to collect the pension haha!
“…the renowned Pentagon crazyscience bureau whose nuttiness can only be...”
– http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/darpa_nasa_scramjet_ready_to_blow/
Royal Navy won't fight pirates 'in case they claim... →
European Parliament Recommends Stricter Cell Phone... →
The European Parliament has voted 522 to 16 to recommend tighter safety standards for cell phones. In light of the growing body of scientific evidence implicating cell phone use with brain tumors,…
David Blaine does a Benito Mussolini • The... →
why?
BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Justice... →
Everyones favourite Nazi perverts the FIA seem prejudiced in favour of Ferrari YET AGAIN!
Or maybe Hamilton could be tempted to repeat Sasha Baron Cohen’s famous catchphrase? If he loses the title to Massa by less than six points this could go down in history as a low point for the FIA.
is staring forlornly at a HUGE mountain of paperwork (but might just run off into town for a bit haha).
is wondering what’s next?
is arsing about with twitter
EFF to sue Bush and cronies over telecom spying →
The president has decreed that they can’t sue the phone companies over illegal spying on Americans, so the Electronic Frontier Foundation today will announce a class-action suit in behalf of AT&T…
Heads are rolling on Digg.com →
.. or it’s just site database issue.Somewhere between 16:00h and 20:00h (PMT) more than 50 power users were removed from Digg.com. Trying to access their Digg personal profiles leads to server error…
Adobe yanks speech exposing critical... →
Another good reason to be using the noscript firefox addon - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
Ironically enough I had to allow scripts at theregister.co.uk to post this ho ho bloody ho.
Amarok 2 installer for OS X - Amarok Blog →
I’m really happy to get a simple install of Amarok for OS X (Leopard Intel only). Just the wikipedia feature missing for me really but I love this so far, even if it is early days yet.
Clemency denied for an innocent man →
7 Out of 9 witnesses have recanted their testimony against Troy Davis - many citing police coercion as the reason for their original testimony. Still the Georgia Board of Paroles and Pardons spent…
Amnesty International USA - Troy Davis is... →
“Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on September 23 for the murder of Police Officer Mark MacPhail in Georgia, yet serious doubts of his guilt remain and compelling evidence of his innocence has not been heard in court. On Friday, September 12, the Georgia Board of Pardon and Paroles denied clemency to Davis — we must urge them to reconsider their decision.”
Iran 'sending weapons to Taleban' →
“Elements in the Iranian state are sending weapons across the border to the Taleban in Afghanistan, a BBC investigation has uncovered.”
Here we go the flames are being stoked! Only this time the manpower on the ground surely isn’t available?
“CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web...”
– http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/
This is brilliant! I’ve been running this in VMware with XP for the last week or so but this is a much quicker way to use Chrome on OS X. Probably not suitable for use as a main browser and certainly not safe for untrusted sites, but a...
Needs a rest from the computer screen - best go stare at the TV for a bit I reckon.
What a great music festival! →
I ended up missing far too much of this years Bridgnorth Music Festival but what I caught was excellent. So many venues taking part too, so I was gutted to spend a lot of the week indoors with a…
What about a monthly new music night in... →
What next then? How about a regular (probably monthly?) new music night similar to new music thursdays, that happened leading up to the festival? More than monthly would probably be pushing it a…
Twelve tone and the Avant Garde →
A really nice set of links that opened my eyes up to some great 20th century material. And last.fm is the BEST way I know to find good new music.
Fring - free skype on a mobile? →
A genuinely FREE way to use skype over wifi on a Nokia N95 8Gb. Dunno if I’m too fussed about instant messaging on shitty numeric phone keys though hehe! I’ve been spoilt using Treo qwerty keys for too long. Not to mention the touch screen which seems to have finally arrived on a few other phones which won’t need mentioning by name.
Been meaning to blog for years!
And then I think what’s the point, maybe it’s a bit self important. Great way to share good finds though and it might even help me remember stuff?
