Archives for October 2007
Links for 2007-10-26 (October 26, 2007) Nice Splashcast interview by Chris Valance of Cory Doctorow on whether ISPs should be responsible for identifying copyrighted works that go through their servers Good, solid bits of argument in there. Cory speaks extremely well on these matters, clearly...
Links for 2007-10-22 (October 22, 2007) JK Rowling says Dumbledore was gay, and I couldn't be happier about it. I've seen too many gay characters recently in films and theatre and TV that are filthy old stereotypes for an audience to find amusing, like pets......
Links for 2007-10-20 (October 20, 2007) Loving the ratings joke on the Radiohead "In Rainbows" review on Pitchfork Media Just in case you wondered, the actual rating is 9.3 which is pretty good... Kevin Rose on cover of new Captain America comic? Certainly there's a...
Links for 2007-10-18 (October 18, 2007) Screw Getting Things Done, my brains' completely plotzing over "Consider it Done" It's like a PA service for tedious or bureaucratic life-management jobs like sorting out your expenses, finding all the documentation for your tax return, paying bills. Good...
Links for 2007-10-17 (October 17, 2007) ITunes Plus appears to be dropping its price around the world to be inline with normal iTunes songs Difficult to know why anyone would buy the other ones really. To be honest, it's probably easier for them to just...
Links for 2007-10-13 (October 13, 2007) Are you angry that the threat of terrorism has been used to sanction human rights abuses in our own countries? Then visit the Amnesty International 'Unsubscribe Me' campaign It feels a bit like you're just saying 'not in my...
Links for 2007-10-11 (October 11, 2007) Google are acquiring Jaiku and with it, presumably, the lovely Jyri and Ulla Well done guys! I'm assuming this has something to do with the fabled GPhone? Serious Eats posts on the wonderful Stichelton cheese available from Neal's Yard...
Links for 2007-10-10 (October 10, 2007) Ce Matin Un Lapin, rediscovered... The old URL stopped working. To alleviate your anxieties about the lamentable shortage of rabbits with guns, I have posted the new URL. Kevin Kelly's review of Scan Café is interesting for those of...
Paul A Young's new shop in the Royal Exchange... (October 9, 2007) About eighteen months ago a couple of friends of mine started a chocolate shop in Islington and I wrote about it on plasticbag.org. Today--in about half an hour in fact--they're opening their second branch near Bank tube station in the...
Links for 2007-10-09 (October 9, 2007) If you have an e-mail address from any of these 100 companies you can get yourself a Dopplr invitation straightaway... Very classy idea, oh Dopplr central. I'll be circulating this around Yahoo straight away......
Links for 2007-10-07 (October 7, 2007) Really enjoying playing with ffffound. It's sort of like del.icio.us divided by Flickr only with no tags and more designers. Fascinating....
Links for 2007-10-03 (October 3, 2007) A Petition to require polling organisations to abide by the preferences of citizens who have opted out of cold-calling via the Telephone Preference Service... Feel free to promote and link to as you see fit....
On Labour, Ipsos MORI and the TPS... (October 2, 2007) This is one of those grumpy old curmudgeonly men blog posts that I kept reading on the web and never really understood until very recently. I'm just warning you so you can get out now. I have a long-standing grudge...
