March 2010
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Urgent Evoke - A crash course in changing the... →
Fixing Reality with Online Games | h+ Magazine →
BBC News - Man charged with murder after body... →
Proof it doesn’t just happen in comic books.
Clockworks: A Steampunk / Fantasy Webcomic →
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Spinnerette! →
audiotool.com →
Make music in your browser
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"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword... →
Pixel breakout →
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Write to Harriet Harman →
seej500:
Harriet Harman MP, Leader of the House of Commons, will – on Thursday afternoon – have to explain the Government’s plans for the Digital Economy Bill. The Bill has suffered from huge manipulation by lobbyists, including insertion of entire new clauses at the behest of music lobbyists the BPI, and accusations that Lords amended the Bill without declaring their interests. The Bill still...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Talib Kweli (4)
Black Milk (4)
The Roots (4)
Mos Def (3)
Jay-Z (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Image Comics Online - Fell #1 →
Falcon Squadron →
Internet home of Johnny Red, classic weekly British war comic by Tom Tully and Joe Colquhoun (including years of archives).
Paris 26 Gigapixels - Interactive virtual tour of... →
Beautiful. Via @digitalyn
Timelapse Photography with your spare Ubuntu Box... →
Illegal-file sharing could 'cost billions' by 2015... →
Reblogged for correction:
digitalyn:
seej500:
UPDATE: Following a comment by an eagle-eyed reader, I’ve realised I over-simplified my original point. This was sloppy of me, and I apologise. Corrections, backed up by government statistics, at the end of the piece.
“In the UK alone, losses could be up to 254,000 jobs and 7.8bn euros, it said.”
N.B. 7.8bn euros is, on current exchange rates,...
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Illegal-file sharing could 'cost billions' by 2015... →
seej500:
“In the UK alone, losses could be up to 254,000 jobs and 7.8bn euros, it said.”
N.B. 7.8bn euros is, on current exchange rates, about 7.0bn pounds sterling.
This is one of those cases where I think we all need to see how this industry-sponsored research has reached this number. Music sales are up, as The BPI admits, and as this article from last week’s Guardian also points out (see...
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A (startlingly quick) response from my MP
I emailed my MP, Nick Palmer to express my concerns about the upcoming, and soon to be rushed through, Digital Economy Bill This was the response I got, less than an hour later:
Yes, I agree, but the position is not quite as reported and I think that some of the comments on the internet haven’t fully understood the procedure at the end of a Parliament. The DEB is a mammoth project...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Jay-Z (20)
De La Soul (10)
The Roots (5)
Nas (4)
J Dilla (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“If music executives sold bottled water, they’d be calling for a ban on...”
– The demise of the music industry is visible everywhere but in the facts | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Seen Not Heard- Boing Boing →
Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in... →
“This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower His Dark Materials trilogy Sabriel The Canterbury Tales...
Belle de Jour: 03/01/2010 - 04/01/2010 →
Belle De Jour (of ‘Diary of a London Call-Girl’ fame) runs down 10 types of geek (and hey, who new Belle was so Geek-friendly?)
That damn show →
Over on The Tearoom of Despair, Bob Temuka makes a startlingly good case for the defense of the ‘60’s Batman show…(which of course, I don’t mind admitting, I loved as a kid and will still watch today with a big grin on my face as if a kid again..)
