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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Heading North
I’m in Newcastle for the weekend to do some plotting with the fine people at Tyneside Cinema and to see Nicolas Roeg introduce his new film, Puffball. Unfortunately getting here was more of an adventure than it usually is thanks to the heavy rain, and the train was stuck outside Darlington for about an hour. [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Cloud City
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
When I’m asked to give a talk about technology I like to pull out my iPod Touch, wave it at the crowd and point out that ‘in the future’ it will be a supercomputer with parallel processors and terabytes of storage.
Well, it seems the future [...]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
End of the Internet: Pictures at Eleven?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
We journalists like nothing more than a forthcoming apocalypse, especially when it involves something that most people don’t properly understand. It’s easy to frighten people with talk of ‘superbugs’ or argue that when the Large Hadron Collider is turned on it will create ‘strangelets’ that [...]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us:
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet - the only sensible option…
Reporters sans frontières - Beijing Games 2008 - Advice from RSF
Test: Silicon Swings and Silicon Roundabouts - read and digest before taking any action
Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground | Technology | guardian.co.uk [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
Web curbs for Olympic journalists - What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown - Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… - nasty little piece of [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 22nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 17th and July 22nd:
Matasano?s ?blunder? « Ars Militaria: Research Institute of Systematic Misanthropy - Outline of what is believed to be Dan Kaminsky's cache poisoning finding
RANDOM.ORG - Coin Flipper - I really like this… especially the older coins
Techdirt: A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 13th through July 17th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 13th and July 17th:
iPhone problems - how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating
Mac vs PC - YouTube - Mac vs. PC - Halo Style
Android - Google’s Android platform: not so open after all
Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks - We need a firefox extension [...]
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 11th through July 12th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 11th and July 12th:
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Build the Open Shelves Classification -
2gether08 | Spirited Away - what next for 2gether - Call for ideas from Steve Moore for all at 2gether08
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Could Too Much Transparency Lead to Sunburn? - [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 10th through July 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 10th and July 11th:
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online - Distance Degrees.com - Useful list of places to look
BBC NEWS | Politics | Voters' data 'should not be sold' - Another sensible report to be ignored by the UK government…
Personal Internet [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 9th through July 10th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 9th and July 10th:
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy - Ecellent piece and one of the few that goes back to the psychology literature.
Wordle - EU Telecoms Law -
Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web « Perfect Path - Excellent critique [...]
