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fanbloodytastic — that is pretty much part of why I stopped buying tabloid newspapers two years ago. The Sun’s full page colour photos of people jumping from the burning World Trade Center in their September 12, 2001 edition sealed the deal for me. I fear I would get more newsworthy material from a dog’s pooperscooper…

Yes, I’m still alive, just busy at the keyboard or outside in the sunshine. What’s all this sunshine about anyway? This is Scotland, we only have a quota of 2 or 3 hours of sunshine a year, dependent upon how many bailiffs collect from poll tax dodgers … However, I have the sunburned arms and…

Seems there’s a hiccup in The Animatrix DVD — in this modern day of subtitles on DVDs, you don’t usually get a ‘dirty’ print mastered onto the disc, that is, a version of the film with captions strewn upon it. [Incidentally, I’m using the archaic word ‘print’ when I’ll wager most, if not all, of…

Once again it seems Dave Winer is a bit slow at picking up editorial pieces on the BBC News website. Then again, this is the same Dave who thinks that the British taxpayer ‘pays’ for the BBC, when it is in fact the British TV licence fee payers who ‘pay’ for it. Sorry to be…

“Twenty years ago, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet.” For all the talk about vulnerabilities, low functionality, et cetera, I love that we have robust, proven and — to be frank — old protocols on the net. The biggest change to phone numbers…

Everybody laugh at John‘s new hairdo (or old hairdo, I suppose).

Excellent article from last Sunday’s Observer — it always takes me about a week to rattle through the Observer 🙂 — about the state of Iraq, and specifically Baghdad, in the aftermath of the Bush and Blair Show.

An “enthusiastic fan of the UK’s transformation into a multiracial society over the past 50 years” has taken it upon himself to start a campaign called reFLAG to rebrand the flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack. “Our” flag — I quote the word ‘our’ as the Union Jack isn’t really the native flag…