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LifestreamIf I didn’t know better I’d say this was a concerted effort to run search engines and the free and open content system of the Internet into the ground. One day it’s paedophilia, the next it’s bogus terrorism and viruses. And when that isn’t getting the job done they turn to something else. Now they’re [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Swedish IDG rag ComputerSweden made a big splash about Apple getting into the employee home PC market the other day. Sure, I suppose there are people that would believe those fantasies. Not even Apple themselves think they could get more than 10%, at best, to go for their junk even if people had the choice. [...]
Barbarians at the gates! Terry Jones’ new BBC series “Barbarians” (with the accompanying book by the same name) is about to go on air and so he summarizes the idea behind the project for The Sunday Times. Very timely and eerily familiar …
The Romans kept the Barbarians at bay for as long as they could, [...]
New Scientist notes that deforestation and agricultural uniformity may have undermined the bananas’ gene pool beyond remedy.
Go bananas while you still can. The world’s most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed.
Virtually [...]
Ironically, as jobs around the world get outsourced to India, the Indian film industry is looking for ghora (”light-skinned foreigners”) to populate movies and give them a more “cosmopolitan feel.” Of course, critics of ‘Bollywood’ will no doubt see this as confirmation that the industry increasingly adopts racism as a sure way to success. They [...]
A Swedish newspaper broke the story this morning, indicating that Sweden and other EU states will have to open their databases of telecommunication logs to not only European authorities but American as well. The Data Retention Directive has gone from bad to worse and one must suspect that this was the plan all along. Seeing [...]
The most remarkable science fiction design so far this year. A solution for a cramped future perhaps.
The Cool Hunter via Gizmodo - The 2 photos above were taken at Volkswagen’s new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design [...]
Boing Boing highlights a new grassroots movement [notyoursoldier.org] within the U.S. aiming to raise awareness about recruitment specifically and the system of militarization in general.
Not Your Soldier Action Camps bring together young people who are heavily targeted by military recruitment. At the camps, youth learn how to take action to fight military recruitment, the poverty [...]
HUD secretary’s blunt warning - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson stumps advertising contractor after he admits to not liking President Bush.
Mental patient left handcuffed to fence - “Outrage is sweeping across Oklahoma as people are demanding to know why a cop left a mental patient handcuffed to a fence outside a hospital [...]
The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is hitting the roof and is now among the highest of surveyed industrialized states. Here are some clues as to why:
– Health care provision in the USA is more patchy than in most industrialised nations. Health insurance in the USA covers a smaller percentage of the population when [...]
