At long last, Google Earth now has decent resolution aerial photos of Edinburgh!

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If you're feeling flush and charitable, the Wikimedia foundation are fundraising currently. And some days (like today) an anonymous donor is matching every donation, so a donation on those days gets doubled. Imagine if there was no wikipedia - we'd all be poorer for it.

I have mixed feelings about the news that David Irving is being released early. At the same time as knowing the Holocaust was and is a horrible thing (and its disingenuous denial a horror too), I feel uncomfortable about the questioning of it being a crime. I know that there truly isn't free speech per se - you can't shout "Fire!" in a crowded ( Read more... )

This looks very handy - bypass crappy 0870 phone numbers and get the real numbers! (UK only)

http://www.saynoto0870.com

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It seems someone is putting all of Mozart's sheet music online (Slashdot story): check it out. Sadly, the site is a pigs mess of misapplied technology and design, and they didn't have making it easy for people to download in mind ( Read more... )

What an.... interesting idea.

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/12/12/2137212.shtml

I've been meaning to do this stuff for a while...


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Good god - this guy Shaun Hutson is the real Garth Marenghi!

(Cribbed from http://bolshy-spice.livejournal.com/8362.html.)