links for 2008-12-31
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Thousands of Microsoft Zunes suddenly simultaneously freeze up. Weird. Even as MS bugs go, this one’s pretty freaky. Something to do with the clock setting and the leap year/leap second in 2008?
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A review of the good, bad and maddening TV adverts of 2008
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Age ratings for the website: government regulation of online space. Not only is it wildly impractical, it’s also going to be deeply, deeply unpopular. Cultural Secretary Andy Burnham’s musings may have seriously dented his political career, and – if adopted by the government – may hole the government’s re-election chances. Great going!
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Because parents need a pamphlet to tell them, naturally. In fact Alcohol Concern are concerned and say that there is no safe amount of alcohol in children and that any advice needed to be “very clear”: such as, “Don’t.”
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Cars that won’t let you break the speed limit. Even Orwell would have felt this was too outrageous for fiction, but it’s coming to a road near you any day now. The Government believe drivers will leap at the chance to fit this technology; they clearly aren’t viewers of Top Gear!
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Chinese internet users spend 44% of their leisure time online … but UK housewives notch up 47% So much for the internet being a male-only preserve. Students spend 39%, more than the unemployed (32%). And apparently, “online acquaintances are now perceived by most of us as real acquaintances.” Was there any doubt?
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Just when you think that things can’t get any more absurd in data surveillance and big brother society, along comes the idea that a private company could be asked to run a huge database containing details of everybody’s telephone calls, emails and internet use. Give me strength …
links for 2008-12-30
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Is Sony’s Great Hope, the PS3, staring into the abys of failure? Not understanding why it’s getting thumped by the less-advanced Wii may be key.
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Battle of the deep links – with deep consequences
links for 2008-12-29
links for 2008-12-25
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“After a year’s worth of tweeting and blogging and uploading and sharing, simply writing “Happy Holidays” on a card, especially one designed by someone else, seems woefully inadequate. It seems so 20th century.”
links for 2008-12-24
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Marking the 40th anniversary of the first time we saw the Earth rise over another landscape – the first manned orbit of the Moon.
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I’d initially expected this to be an attack on COI (among others) but instead I think the Tories are saying “why isn’t everyone using the Media Monitoring Unit, judging from the line “the government has its own in-house monitoring service, which employs 19 staff and costs £1m a year to run.” Yay, us!
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A reply to a paper that outlines the rules and regulations that make the simplest Web 2.0 acts the cause of bureaucratic headaches – this one offering some solutions. (An HTML version of an official document located at http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/technology/other_tech.shtml)
links for 2008-12-22
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