It may be a week overdue, but I finally got round to finishing the changes I wanted to make, so the site’s back up and running. Over the last week, I’ve made tonnes of minor changes to the code that should hopefully make it just that bit nicer to use, including adding Lightbox functionality to [...]

As the title suggests, you shouldn’t expect any posts on here for at least the next five days as I’m off to a party at my mate’s house. Chilling, drinking copious quantities of beer, going out, playing paintball, trampolining and driving around the Yorkshire Moors on an old London Routemaster bus are all on the [...]

The Guardian has an interview with Andrew Keen, Internet supervillain and author of The Cult of the Amateur. Keen rails against Web 2.0, claiming not only that the proliferation of blogs, social networking and other user-generated content is “dumbing down the Internet” but also that it is killing off old media such as newspapers. While [...]

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“The UK’s reputation was damaged when the government hesitated in calling for an immediate end to the Lebanon war last year, MPs have said … The foreign affairs committee also said it was ‘counterproductive’ not to talk to Palestinian militant group Hamas. “
The foreign affairs committee is clearly correct in both cases. However, whether or [...]

“Telekom Malaysia sent Yahaya Wahab a bill for 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit, or about $218 trillion, for charges to the account, along with a demand from the company’s debt collection agency that he settle the alleged debt within 10 days, or get a lawyer.”
Not only did the company claim the man owed them roughly 17 times the [...]

In another post that I never got round to blogging, Boing Boing linked last month to a new study into copyright. Economist Rufus Pollock takes into account that the optimal copyright period on intellectual property will fall as costs of production reduce, and that the optimal level will fall over time in general. Putting this [...]

“When all the pieces of the global economy work together smoothly, all the players involved benefit. In this decade, a clear pattern emerged: China became factory to the world, the U.S. became buyer to the world, and India began to become back office to the world.”
In an excerpt from her new book on the subject, [...]

The founder of Perfect 10, a website which specialises in “tasteful nude images”, has announced that he is suing Microsoft. Norm Zada’s convoluted claim argues that because some people illegally copy and post his images on their own sites, and because Microsoft in turn indexes and displays these images in its search results, Microsoft is [...]

This amazing video is over 8 minutes long, but well worth watching. A herd of lions attack a baby buffalo, a crocodile crawls out of a nearby lake and joins the fight, and then an entire herd of buffalo stampedes towards the fray to save its own. Incredible. From YouTube, here. Found via BBC News, [...]