- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead – It's a sad week for the IT industry.
- Alma telescope opens its eyes – Awesome. In the original sense of the word.
- Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History – Both beautiful and fascinating.
- Apple’s iPod: ten years old – Is it really a decade since the first iPod?
Tag Archives: News
My delicious.com bookmarks for August 25th through September 1st
- Gallery: Iron Man, Other Pop Icons Become My Little Pony Sculptures – My Little Pony has a dark side too.
- What they’re "protecting" us from – "Every single person who'd attack Steve Jobs on any of these grounds is, demonstrably, worse at business than Jobs. They're unqualified to assert that liberal values are bad for business, when the demonstrable, factual, obvious evidence contradicts those assertions."
My delicious.com bookmarks for August 20th through August 23rd
- Open Finder folder in Terminal – Ooh, neat. Almost worth upgrading to Lion for this alone. (Warning: not in the least bit true for most people.)
- Losing the HP Way – "In today’s world of MBA-managed companies, R&D is perceived as not being a good use of money." And HP used to be a great engineering company. Sad.
My delicious.com bookmarks for July 22nd through August 3rd
- Social Media Propaganda Posters – "Be brief! The enemy might be listening in!"
- Norway attacks: Oslo hit by bomb explosion and youths shot at camp – Shocking. Both because it's Norway and because it's a city that I've spent a lot of time in.
The weird world of the Daily Mail
Today the Daily Mail is complaining about a joke that was broadcast on the News Quiz in October last year. (Is it still considered news six months after the event?)
I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading the article, so, to summarise:
- Broadcasting a joke that implies, but doesn’t use, a swear word is bad
- But printing the same joke in a newspaper is okay
- Broadcasting scantily clad women dancing is bad
- But printing pictures of the same is okay
- Putting quotes around a word to indicate disdain is good writing
- A single complaint represents The Silent Majority
- Mob rule would be a good thing
- Potentially causing offence is grounds for severe sanctions
- (But see bullets two and four for exceptions)
- Knee-jerk liberals — whatever they are — are a wide-spread problem
- Knee-jerk tabloids are okay
- Personal responsibility is good
- (Unless we have to exercise it ourselves)
- Your opinion is wrong
- Mine is right
- Banning stuff that we don’t like represents freedom
- Stating things as fact makes them true
- Black is white
- We’ve always been at war with Eastasia
I may have veered off target a little at the end but I think that’s pretty close to the core of the article. Did I miss anything?
My delicious.com bookmarks for April 28th through May 5th
- Yahoo! Finds! Buyer! For! Doomed! Delicious! – Hopefully good news for Delicious.com.