Just a couple of quick things I wanted to post.
First off, I’ve edited my About page recently so that it now includes a lifestream. This means that not only does it list my profiles around the Internet, but also aggregates information about what I’ve been doing on all of them onto one page. Check it [...]

This is cool! This is the first ever live ad shown in the UK - a group of skydivers spelling out “Honda”. I particularly love the “Hello Mum”
Video from YouTube. The official “Difficult Is Worth Doing” site is here.

The BBC reports that more than 100 countries (thankfully, Britain included) have agreed to ban current designs of cluster bombs. These weapons are dangerous not only at time of use but also for many years afterward, as unexploded bomblets essentially become landmines littering the ground. However, while the number of signatories is positive news it’s [...]

Jack Schofield blogs on The Guardian website that Microsoft are to expand their support of open file formats in Office. Next year’s service pack will bring XPS, PDF, PDF/A, ODF, and (in a sign of the increasing importance of Chinese business) the Chinese national file format UOF as standard. Additionally, the next version of Office [...]

BBC News reports on the EU’s Directive on Unfair Business-to-Consumer Commercial Practices, which outlaws practises such as setting up fake blogs simply to promote products, or companies reviewing their own products on ratings sites. In theory, a great idea - these advertising tactics are bad for the consumer and underhand on the part of the [...]

From Explosm, here.

“The environmental movement has never been short on noble goals … But today, one ecological problem outweighs all others: global warming … Just one problem. Winning the war on global warming requires slaughtering some of environmentalism’s sacred cows.”
Wired has a great bunch of articles looking at the sacrifices environmentalists may need to accept in order [...]

“Targets also miss the point of what the public want. The Home Office judges each police force by how many crimes it detects and clears up. The public want something different. They do not want crimes happening in the first place. They believe, like Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the Metropolitan police, that ‘the [...]

Charles Arthur posted a superb piss-take on his Guardian technology blog a couple of weeks ago He takes a look at the new Microsoft Telescope software, starting with the installation procedure (11 lengthy, technical bullet points), followed by Microsoft’s claim of ‘Mac support’. Telescope’s revolutionary way of working on a Mac is to -er [...]

“Steps up to the entrance were deliberately built to ensure nobody would try to ram the building. Cameras and motion detectors are everywhere to be seen. The reflecting windows on the outside are fake … At each stage, at least two forms of authentication are required to enter various parts of the building, including door [...]