Monthly Archives: June 2008
DRM and how it can go so wrong
On New Zealand news website, Stuff.co.nz, Graeme Philipson wrote a good article on “Digital copyright: it’s all wrong”. He brings up some interesting points about the US submitting a draft to the G8 meeting in Tokyo, outlining the possibility for … Continue reading
Laser Crusader Terrorising Wellington Pilots
Apparently some guy, (won’t mention names) has been pointing a high-powered green laser at planes, in their flight path to land at Wellington Airport. “The people who are doing it, these guys are idiots. I don’t know why they do … Continue reading
This is how the media is destroying society
“Blond, white schoolboy is al-Qa’eda extremist, say police” The Telegraph (UK) write that a 12 student has been arrested under the anti-terrorism act, for distributing videos of terrorists beheading westerner’s. He also “has an unnatural interest in guns and weapons… … Continue reading
UK Government Terror Plot on P2P Pirates
According to what DMN describe as “top-level” and other “executive” sources, the music industry and major ISPs including BT, Carphone Warehouse, Tiscali and Virgin Media are now involved in “serious negotiations” over how to deal with what they perceive to … Continue reading
Spore releases free Creature Creator for Win/OS X
EA’s upcoming (amazing) game formost platforms, Spore is one kick ass game. The story is basically that of evolution. You start as a Spore, a tiny little single-cell ameba (sic?) that chases things it can eat to get bigger (same … Continue reading
FireFox 3 Pledge Day DoS's Mozilla server
Today is the day where Mozilla are trying to achieve a world record in FireFox 3 downloads. Unfortunately everyone just received an email from Mozilla saying DOWNLOAD NOW! So everyone did, causing their download server to grind to a halt. … Continue reading
Gene Simmons is STILL a dick
(The story that this is related to can be found by either searching for “simmons” or you can get to it here. Just when you think Shock-Rock couldn’t be more shocking, Simmons rears his ugly head and shouts out “Radiohead’s … Continue reading
O2 playing tricks with EDGE
Today EDGE was turned of in London. I couldn’t get my daily internets news on the way to work. I was only a little bit mad cos our home internet has gone down too (but I think that’s Ali’s fault). … Continue reading
Christianity, ON SALE NOW!
Christain advertising has been increasingly prevalent in todays London. A couple of weeks back there was a dirty great big billboard near my house saying “Jesus loves each and everyone of you”. Therefore Jesus loves hookers. This morning I saw … Continue reading