2006-04-29 at 8:27am
So, Google have released yet another Mac-unfriendly product. Wake me up when something changes…
Nintendo now has a really dumb name for it’s next console. Someone in Japan has been watching the Web 2.0 silly names contest in the Valley.
Free hugs next Sunday. I’m usually a very cynical person, but this is a cool idea.
Andrew Sullivan: “Equally, we have to make sure that our criticism of Bush and his dreadful, criminal defense secretary does not mean a capitulation to the anti-Americanism, moral relativism and defeatism of the cut-and-run left. We must fight that tendency as relentlessly as we must fight Christianism and Islamism. But a new coalition is forming - against all these isms. For freedom. For the West.”
I didn’t know that Dave was a Kill Bill fan.
I’ve just set up Virtue Desktops so that I can switch between operating systems - OS X, Windows and Second Life. “;->”
Jacob Sullum: “I don’t know how many innocent men there are at Guantanamo, and neither does the government. I wish it cared a little more.”
Bryan Appleyard: “The reflex egalitarian, anti-elitist streak in the BBC means that they prefer bland, jolly, tabloidy types to anybody with any weight or authority.”
Jeffrey Shallit has a slightly more odd creationist quote-mangle.
The Guardian has an article profiling healthy fast-food places across the country. There are a few places that sound god in central London on there, even though a few don’t meet the fast food ethic. Yes, ethic. The thing which is great about fast food is that it’s unpretentious and cheap. With McDonalds and the suchlike, you get exactly what you pay for. There is no elaborate nonsense or ‘dialectic’. There’s no “platters” or “drizzles” - there’s fries or there aren’t. Vegetarian food has this problem - all the organic crapola that goes with it. We need “unpretentious restaurant awards”.
Tom Coates pointed to the new BBC Infax catalogue. Very cool. Now to tie that to BitTorrent. Seriously, sites like UKNova could use the BBC Programme Number to check for duplicates. For instance, the first Jonathan Miller Atheism programme (‘Shadows of Doubt’) is NMGJ580L.
Finally, the Mexican government are decriminalising small amounts of drug possession - not just marijuana but cocaine and heroin too! Of course, for us to really see the benefits of drug legalisation, you need to stop enforcing all the damn drug laws, but this is a good start.
Kevin Murphy has really a cute Sheltie!
Yawn. Nothing to see here. Just tired old nonsense. If you ban memory sticks, why not ban human memory. If you don’t want people distributing files either (a) don’t give them the file or (b) tell them not to distribute it and threaten them if they do.
