- Review: Charming Wall-E Sweeps Up Trash, Hearts – Seems that being bought by Disney has not cramped Pixars style. Definitely one that I'll see at the cinema.
- Labour fifth as Tories win Henley – When Labour get fewer votes than the BNP in a by-election there is a big problem…
- Legal, British P2P 'by end of year' – Is the music industry finally ready to embrace new distribution models?
Tag Archives: internet
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 30th through May 7th
- Senator to ISPs: "Think twice" about 'Net neutrality… or else – It's encouraging that some politicians understand the issues of net neutrality. Let's hope that there are also tech-savvy MPs here in the UK.
- Peep Show for free! – If you're in the UK this is a must-have download: the first episode of the new series of Peep Show. It's perhaps the best comedy show on British TV at the moment. Highly recommended.
- The Free Web: 15 Years Old Today – The subject line says it all! Where would we be without the web?
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 20th through April 23rd
- Amnesty unveils shock 'waterboarding' film – This video makes it pretty clear why waterboarding is torture and not just an "enhanced interrogation" technique as George Bush would have us believe. Very nasty. (Don't watch over dinner.)
- DRM: The Gift that Keeps on Taking – "Now, people, aren't you really glad you bought DRM'd music"
- Free your mind – How can a writer make money when distribution is free…
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 8th through April 11th
- London teen orders 'cab, innit' – Barely believable but very funny!
- Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich? – "I never bought that Home Taping Is Killing Music shit in the 1980s that the record companies tried to lay on us. In fact I printed on the front of my fourth album that Capitalism is Killing Music. And that's what's happening now. The powerful start-ups a
- What Idiot Wrote These Ten Commandments? – "Where's the stuff we can use? Where's 'No pushing'? Or 'Bag your leaves so they don't blow around in your neighbor's yard?' And don't even get me started on right-of-way. Didn't they have real problems back in Bible days?"
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 2nd through April 5th
- The Cost of E-Voting – One of the many reasons that I am against e-voting machines: the cost. "The cost … increased 179 percent per voter on average." All that money for a less reliable system. Bargain!
- Change we can believe in – I didn't realise that we were in line for some new coins. They look surprisingly good, certainly much better than the new US notes. (Originally from daringfireball.net)
- Bali bombings: A sister's search for justice – I've always said that it's much easier to be against capital punishment when it's just an abstract idea. Here the sister of one of the Bali bombing's victims argues why she's still against it.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 19th through March 26th
- Everything you ever wanted to know about "Rickrolling"… – The man who sang "Never gonna give you up," the classic Stock-Aitken-Waterman pop song, makes an unexpected come back. (What's wrong with Debbie Gibson by the way?!)
- Lies and Statistics – Most people in Britain believe that Jesus rose from the dead. Or do they…?
- Our Bad. Wired Had Some Tips For Apple — We Were Wrong. – Fascinating to see how much things have changed in the last ten years.