2 month ago
Rod Begbie : Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations - "The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric "peep" noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security." [via] #
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : The car, the radio, the night - and rock's most thrilling song - Travelogue round Route 128, inspired by Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner" #
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : All this online sharing has to stop | Technology | guardian.co.uk - A Modest Proposal supporting the music industry's calls for ISPs to block filesharing. #
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8 month ago
Rod Begbie : Stephen Fry: Dork talk - Stephen Fry writes about the HTML5 ogg video debacle -- he's even more geeky that I'd previously imagined. What a hero! #
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Ben Goldacre writes a long, brilliant and—please god—persuasive debunking of Homeopathy for The Guardian - The horror for me here is that cultural studies' critiques and examinations of the process of science are partly responsible for the public suspicion of evidence and rationality. Makes me very sad.
Rod Begbie : What's wrong with homeopathy, by Ben Goldacre | Science | The Guardian - Excellent article on homeopathy by Ben Goldacre -- not too ranty in an "all homeopathy is evil" way, rather a "homeopathy should be part of a discussion, if only for the benefits on the placebo effect, but we can't get the homeopaths to talk". Hopefully [via] #
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! | Technology | The Guardian - Stephen Fry reviews the iPhone for The Grauniad. "In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. The jouissance as Roland Barthes liked to sa #
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13 month ago
Rod Begbie : Welcome to America | Guardian Unlimited - "When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was before airport officials decided to detain her as a threat to security" [via] #
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : 'Oh good, it's raining again' | Glastonbury 2007 | Guardian Unlimited Music - Quality grumpiness from Charlie Brooker. "The pop-up a tent was a joy. It comes flat, disc-shaped. You throw it in the air and it unfurls into a canvas shell. Within seconds I was the proud owner of a home fit for a tramp." [via] #
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15 month ago
Rod Begbie : Bad Science » Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children - Splendid break-down of the bad science in last Monday's Panorama "Science says Wi-Fi is dangerous" scarefest. #
Simon Willison : Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children - Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children. Ben Goldacre tears the ridiculous Panorama WiFi episode to pieces.
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : Singles chart set to go retro | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited - This weekend, the UK charts will switch to including sales of all digital tracks, not just those marked as "singles". As a result, album tracks and one-hit wonders are likely to hit the Top 100. Anything that gets The Proclaimers into the charts *has* t #
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21 month ago
Rod Begbie : It's the name on everyone's screen. But is Southridge Ethanol really such a hot stock? | Special_reports | Guardian Unlimited Money - Anatomy of a pump'n'dump scam. Or: Why you're getting so much more spam this month. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Cracked it! | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited - FFS. Detailed explanation of the how's and why's of reading/cloning a UK RFID-chipped passport -- which don't even have the tinfoil protective cover that US passports will. "'This doesn't matter,' says a Home Office spokesman." [via] #
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | G24 - The Grauniad's constantly-updated downloadable PDF, designed to be printed out before you leave the office in the evening to read on the train home. Nice way to attack the evening newspapers' sales without having to distribute deadtree yourself. [via] #
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26 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Voicemail Sucks - Voicemail Sucks: "Voicemail is spectacularly inefficient and I hate it, so please don't leave me a message when you call" Agreed!
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technobile - I've just changed my voicemail message to say "Send me an email. I rarely check voicemail." [via] #
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Supposing . . . It's OK to lie for the sheer hell of it - "Get angry if they don't believe you. They will eventually. They always do." [via] #
plasticbag : Charlie Brooker on lying just for the hell of it... - You see, I sort of get this, but I'm afraid I'm a bit old fashioned. I don't think that smiling to people you're not so keen on counts as lying, and I think people who play tricks on other people are sort of self-inflated arseholes, really. Sorry. No fun,
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : MediaGuardian.co.uk | Guardian offers downloadable news digest - Grauniad to offer easily-print-outable on-demand PDF news digest. #
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited: Comment is free - The Grauniad's answer to the Huffington Post. Looking forward to see how this fleshes out. [via] #
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33 month ago
jkottke : Ricky Gervais (of The Office and Extras fame) will doing a 12-episode series of podcasts for The Guardian - Starting on Monday, Dec 5th, Ricky Gervais (of The Office and Extras fame) will doing a 12-episode series of podcasts for The Guardian. (thx nicholas)
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Ricky Gervais - Ricky Gervais is going to record a bunch of weekly podcasts, starting Monday. [via] #
jimray : Ricky Gervais is podcasting for the Guardian - Oh man, this is guaranteed to have me laughing out loud on the bus, which should serve to force all the Microsofties to look up from their tablet PC's to, in turn, laugh at me. I'm a little pissed I'm supposed to remember to come back to this page - would
Milo Vermeulen : I finally gave some of these Ricky Gervais podcasts a listen - they're great! [via]
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