“If we wanted to listen to someone murder a Miley Cyrus record, we’d buy a Miley Cyrus record”

Via @gavindeas, an incisive take on the current Christmas number 1 battle. (Sign that humanity has no future, assuming Youtube comments are indicative, part 94: when I went to the Rage Against The Machine Killing In The Name Youtube page to remind ( Read more... )

Hey, you kids, get off my browser history!

I was writing down an idea just now, and I needed a word. But I’d forgotten it.

I started casting around mentally, but to no avail. I quickly realised that it was late, I was tired, and I was probably not going to think of the right word on my own. I’d have to either put in some awkward paraphrase ( Read more... )

Squeezes all your windows to ridiculous sizes.

World of Goo recently had a well-publicised Radiohead-type “Pay what you want for the game” sale (here’s a summary). Cleodhna had downloaded it, so I decided to grab it and give it a go in a brief lull at work.

I played it for a bit, then quit - to discover that all of my windows on my main ( Read more... )

You look tasty


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Cleodhna regularly wishes that she had some.


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Heaven forbid policies have purpose and consequences.

I really want to believe in local government. I really do. Then I read stuff like this.

Says The Guardian:

Overall, local government spends 18% of council tax revenue on dealing with rubbish, but that masks a lot of variation between regions and councils. The English district councils ( Read more... )

Really? This is a threat?

So now that the Lisbon treaty has passed a second referendum in Ireland, the Tories are looking for way to have a referendum anyway:

Senior Conservative sources say that Cameron will abandon a referendum on Lisbon if the measure enters EU law because he had accepted that it would be virtually impossible to unpick ( Read more... )

In times of unusual economic crisis, we must continue our ages-old policy of making life difficult for people who have nothing.

I read today that

David Cameron today announced he would impose a £25-a-week benefit cut on as many as 500,000 incapacity benefit claimants to fund a £600m back-to-work programme.

[…]

The “tough and ( Read more... )

Pretend to be bereaved and/or disastered.

Via waxy, a way to remove Sponsored Links from Google Mail:

Google does not use humans to read your email, only computers. These computers search for keywords that trigger the advertisements, however, if they hapen to find a catastrophic event or tragedy Google errs on the side of good taste and ( Read more... )

Or won’t for much longer.

I’ve written about this before: too many websites ask you to confirm your identity via questions that are comparatively easy to crack.

Today, like buses, two very-well argued essays argue that this is a major shortcoming of Internet, or indeed banking in general, security as a whole.

The anatomy of the Twitter ( Read more... )