We walked into Brighton’s Churchill Square yesterday and I spotted a book by Banksy in one of the bookshops. So despite having received far too many Christmas presents this year, we are going back with one more book now! If you haven’t run across Banksy before, you clearly haven’t being paying attention here. . . . → Read More: … now with 10% more crap
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There’s an interesting article on arstechnica about why pirate downloads of videos are outpacing legal ones. I particularly liked their term for Digital Rights Management: Another obvious factor is Content Restriction Annulment and Protection (CRAP) technologies, more commonly known as DRM. Consumers who pay for digital video downloads want to be able to play . . . → Read More: Why illegal downloads outpace legal ones 5:1 Peter Gutmann in New Zealand has looked at the problems that Windows Vista’s digital rights management (DRM) can cause. Not only Windows users will be affected, it will also cause problems for other operating systems such as Linux and OS X and can potentially threaten your life: For example the field of medical imaging . . . → Read More: Windows Vista DRM The weather permitting, we should be in the UK for the next few days. (We should by flying to and from Heathrow, at the moment the flight has not been cancelled). Normal posting will resume when we return, in the mean time we wish you a happy Christmas! Update (2006.12.23): We got to the . . . → Read More: Out of here for a few days Amazon recommended Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks to me a couple of weeks ago. And, having read various positive reviews about Ubuntu, I decided to get it. Up until now, my experiments with Linux have been of limited success and use – at irregular intervals I’ve loaded the latest and greatest Suse Linux version . . . → Read More: Playing with Ubuntu Ford is using a total of 14 Mac minis on their assembly lines in their two northern Indiana factories to sequence the delivery of parts, reports Macworld. Interestingly, the company that did the evaluation for Ford that lead to the decision has almost completely switched to Macs as a result of their findings in . . . → Read More: Ford is using Mac minis on the assembly line One thing I like to do when I have time is to follow links from one web site to the next exploring new connections. Today, starting from Transblawg, I found myself after several clicks reading a longish paper on The Translation and Dubbing of ‘Fuck’ into Catalan: The Case of From Dusk till . . . → Read More: How to translate “fuck” into Catalan This week’s Economist has a report about the new Nikon D40 – a 6 megapixel digital SLR camera which undercuts its rivals by several hundred dollars. Their main point in the article subtitled Nikon’s new camera favours quality over quantity is that they think Nikon has recognized that chasing an ever-increasing number of pixels . . . → Read More: Six million pixels are enough I’ve just read When smoke ran like water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis. Its a real eye-opener about how industry distorts and manipulates evidence about the effects of pollution in an effort to keep their liabilities as low as possible and profits as high as possible. . . . → Read More: When smoke ran like water What happens if you put your iPod in a food blender? (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog) |
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