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FaceBook - the CIA conspiracy?
2008-01-07 15:00:00 Assessing the mood of blogland this morning, I would say that the tide is definitely turning against FaceBook. It will be a slow exodus, but I predict we’ve seen FaceBook’s best days. Check back with me in 24 months to see. Meantime, here’s an interesting summary of a story that been circulating for some ... More About: Facebook , Conspiracy
FaceBook Part Deux
2008-01-06 14:00:00 Just to amplify on the previous post. Blogger Robert Scoble was running a script on FaceBook to collect the names, email addresses and birthdays of his friends. This is hardly a high crime and misdemeanour, is it? I’d say wanting to put your friends’ details into your own Microsoft Outlook address book, rather than have them ... More About: Facebook , Part
FaceBook ?Fessions
2008-01-06 08:00:00 I confess - I’m a lousy FaceBooker. I don’t log in enough, I don’t respond to join requests enough, I certainly don’t keep my activities well enough logged, and I don’t join in all the latest and greatest apps. It’s a wonder I have any friends left at all. Thing is, I’ve never really been able ... More About: Facebook , Fess
Lies of the Tooth Fairy
2008-01-05 17:28:00 Watching Hilary Clinton’s rally in Penacook, NH at the moment, I am again partly appalled and partly outraged by the popular American perception of the British health care system. An audience member (I know, it’s probably rigged) has just asked Ms. Clinton about reforming the American healthcare system so that "it does not duplicate the ... More About: Lies , Tooth Fairy
Keep On Truckin? In ?08!
2007-12-31 13:00:00 A very Happy New Year to all my readers? and here?s just the way to celebrate it, riding shotgun with moustachioed Polish-American trucker Hiob, as he broadcasts live from his 18-wheeler all across America! Personally, I think Truck Cams are going to be big in ?08! Share This
PC Update
2007-12-20 15:56:00 Hi ? I’ve been really cruddy these past few days ? heroic quantities of phlegm with resulting phlegmatic behaviour ? seems like everyone in town has either had this or are having. Felt much better this am, then needed to go back to bed two hours later. But I’m on the mend. ... More About: Update
Crewmember deaths by shirt color
2007-12-18 14:00:00 This is why I love Trekkies. Who else would do this? I think the lesson of wearing red shirts is quite clear. Share This More About: Color , Deaths , Shirt
Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
2007-12-17 18:23:00 Many scientists say the threat has been overblown. [Chief executive of Synth etic Genomics, J. Craig] Venter notes that his synthetic genomes are spiked with special genes that make the microbes dependent on a rare nutrient not available in nature. J. Craig Venter!!! Did you not see JURASSIC PARK??? “I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power ... More About: Life , Forms , New Life
They Really Are Watching You - Official
2007-12-17 10:50:00 ?Within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans? phone usage.? - The New York Times, yesterday. This is clearly nothing to do with the threat from terrorism, and everything to do with moving towards a surveillance state. No sensible person would object to ... More About: Watching , Official
Word 2007, You Are The Spawn of Satan
2007-12-14 16:41:00 Weeks after making the transition, my productivity is still less than 40% that of Word 2003. So many things to hate, so little time… I used to have all the functions I wanted on a single toolbar, and could access them all with a single click. Now, most common functions are three clicks or more ... More About: Satan , Spawn , Pawn
Jews? Subway Hero A Muslim
2007-12-13 10:03:00 I like this news story from my namesake ? it?s heart warming. Share This More About: Muslim , Jews , Subway , Hero
News From Doppelgängerland
2007-12-11 10:20:00 This is what our hive mind of Peter Cox has been up to in the last few hours? Media analyst Peter Cox said Black came across as arrogant the minute he stepped foot in Australia. “To me he was an intellectual wanker. He tried very hard to sound much smarter than he was.” CHUCK IN AIR RAGE ... More About: News
Silhouettes and Shillelaghs
2007-11-29 13:05:00 The hominid Peter Cox Fantastic party last night to celebrate children’s publisher Egmont’s expansion into the US market. Egmont is a wonderful publisher, and are well ahead of the pack in terms of their ethical business practices, particularly with regard to their environmental impact - something of growing concern to many of my authors and indeed ...
Stumped!
2007-11-28 02:49:00 How do they do this? I?m utterly mystified! Please, gentle reader, enlighten me? Share This
Eye Spy
2007-11-26 10:28:00 I have a horrible feeling that, sooner or later (and very probably, far sooner than you?d expect) this technology will be used to provide editorial feedback on manuscripts. ?Fantastic job, William darling! But the Eye Tracking says that people are skipping chapters 2 thru 20, can you just have a teensy little look at ...
Vegan Thanksgiving
2007-11-23 13:02:00 So, unbelievers and infidels, you thought that we vegans had a miserable time at Thanksgiving , did you? Let me show you the error of your ways! This was our menu last night: Thanksgiving Day Menu Welcome: Rosemary Ale Fresh Organic French Walnuts Starter: Sorrel Soup Sourdough Bread Main: 3-Grain Medley of Quinoa, Brown Basmati & Minnesota Wild Rice Roasted Orkney Red ... More About: Vegan , Hank
Madeleine McCann/Laura Palmer
2007-11-20 10:35:00 Watching last night?s Panorama program on the disappearance of four year-old Madeleine McCann, I became aware at least twice that the program makers were using, as a soundtrack , the haunting theme that composer Angelo Badalamenti produced for David Lynch?s television epic Twin Peaks. Lynch?s series, as you may remember, deals with an FBI agent?s attempt ... More About: Palmer , Laura , Mccann
The Strike Gets Viral
2007-11-19 16:04:00 As you might expect, members of the the Writers Guild of America, West are putting their talents to create some pretty powerful communications material while engaged in their dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. I particularly like these three videos from YouTube. And what a great way to get the viral ... More About: Viral , Strike
Judith Regan Sues HarperCollins
2007-11-14 17:55:00 The publishing world loves a good soap opera ? see, as proof, my recent piece about the current PFD debacle ? and here is our next instalment. The larger-than-life Judith Regan, erstwhile publisher of the eponymous HarperCollins imprint, is suing her former employer for $100m. Judith also has to cope with the ... More About: Judith Regan
First Sight of The Joshua Files
2007-11-13 08:00:00 The children’s publishing world is amazingly creative about book design, but I’ve rarely seen such a stunning book jacket as Scholastic ’s extraordinary cover for the hugely-anticipated THE JOSHUA FILES by MG Harris. This meeting, last week, was the first time I saw it in the ... More About: Publishing , Files , Joshua , Sight
The War on Boyhood
2007-11-12 15:38:00 Tonight?s ?Panorama? programme discloses that thousands of British children with ?behavioural problems? are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs with dangerous side effects. The powerful tranquillisers, designed to treat psychosis and schizophrenia in adults, are often being used to calm children who are simply “hyperactive”. The situation is even worse in the States (and it will get worse here ...
L?été se meurt?
2007-11-08 08:29:00 It’s clearly Autumn here in London town. two photos from Green Park, just off Piccadilly… Share This
Running On Empty
2007-11-07 08:03:00 I mentioned the concept of ?Peak Oil? ? which is getting more mainstream media coverage now ? in a earlier post. Here, not for the statistically faint-hearted, is an interesting debate on exactly where we are now (no-one can be certain) and where we might be in a few short years. This latest statistical work ... More About: Running , Empty
Conspiracy Theory
2007-11-06 08:09:00 In 1933, a group of American businessmen (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush?s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. So they instigated a coup. Their treasonous plottings were aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the ... More About: Rants , Theory , Conspiracy , Conspiracy Theory , Theo
Perfidy!
2007-11-05 11:16:00 ?When I arrived at the company in August there had already been two offers for the business in the region of £8m. The agents having sold their business to CSS Stellar for £12m were offering in the region of £4m and taking whatever persuasive measures they could, including mass resignations, to ensure that CSS had ...
Neat Xmas Present?
More articles from this author:2007-11-05 08:11:00 Using the power of the internet, Kiva is a website that lets you loan money (very small amounts of money by Western standards) to small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the ... More About: Present , Xmas , Resent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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