dark looks

So the coalition has released its agreed priorities with admirable promptness. Glad I didn’t bother with the manifestos; now I can read two at once. Disclosure: I am a non-politico, but I have friends with strongly held views across the spectrum. And I also understand the difference between a stated intent and an executed policy, [...]

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I’m not generally speaking one to take up a dogmatic position on this sort of thing, but the more attention you pay to DRM and the way it doesn’t work, the more convinced I am that there are whole industries here set up around deliberately shooting oneself in the foot.

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Thought of the morning: Beyond Belief doesn’t ever stray particularly far beyond belief, does it. This makes it the anti-Ronseal of brands… “does everything save what it says on the tin” is rather less snappy, and I see why they haven’t chosen it for their tagline.

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In a rare show of unity, everyone announced today that everyone else was hideously corrupt, whilst pocketing a fat brown envelope. Used fivers spilling out of their pockets, everyone was quick to point out that that other person over there, that shifty looking one, had definitely stuffed one of the tenners falling out of their [...]

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via Queerty

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… that I didn’t go out and buy a Sony PRS-505 the other day. If I had, I’d have been tempted to eschew Sony and Waterstones’ generous promise that prices will be “Much the same as normal paperbacks” by finding a copy of, say, Neal Stephenson’s new opus Anathem on a site like Fictionwise (because [...]

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Right. Jolly good. I’ve had the most marvellously busy couple of months, which has kept me out of trouble and off the interwebs, probably to everyone’s benefit. I’ve had three conversations with three separate people* lately which brushed gently across the same territory. The topic is, as you have probably guessed by now, my artistic [...]

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Seen on a giant ad hoarding on my way home today: “Imagine… expressing your emotions with optical zoom” I can’t even begin to understand how I have successfully expressed my emotions all these years without an optical zoom (save the built in one, where you move the lens assembly and imaging surfaces closer to the [...]

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The link speaks for itself

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“The UN Panel says every country will be affected by global warming” Reaches for atlas. Unable to locate any countries not on the globe. Reaches for dictionary. Unable to find relevant alternative definitions of global. Concludes either: a) “Global warming” now a set phrase and as such UK anglophones (at least) no longer required to [...]

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