October 2009
a) simply a bossy, hard-working postmodern Hughie Green who spotted a gap in the...
– Paul Morley ponders ‘What is Simon Cowell?’ here
The Retweet Incident is a distillation of how Twitter has come so far so fast —...
– Via Wired here. Come on, who’d ever have predicted that 140 character messaging was the killer app?
Torrent crackdown pushing pirates towards file... →
“RapidShare in particular has become massively popular, with traffic demand pushing it into the top 20 list of most trafficked websites on the internet, Alexa reports. The site holds a reported 10 petabytes of files on its systems, which have the capability to handle up to three million users at any one time. Users with premium accounts enjoy unlimited download speeds while the downloads of...
… being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a...
– Via Unix For Dummies (2nd Ed). Linux, for those of us who just love to tinker with the computron. Sort of the Operating System equivalent of having a shed.
Give life to the brand
– Just overheard via Heston Blumenthal on Channel 4. Wanker.
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration,...
– JG Ballard.
David Mills, Tessa Jowell's husband, fails to... →
Oh dear, how sad. BTW: just how did the husband of a UK government minster ostensibly from a ‘democratic socialist party’ end up as consiglieri to an aging, rather creepy, Italian lothario with links to neofascists?
Isn’t politics wonderful?
You can see why there’s such enthusiasm for taking on the post unions,...
– Mark Steel gets to the heart of the postal dispute. here
22 Power Laws Of The Emerging Social Economy →
Mr Feastingonroadkill’s Fave? No 16
“Principle Of Least Effort
Though it sounds simplistic, a surprising number of software and social systems ignore this rule, which says people basically vote with their feet to the easiest solution. In fact, the Principle of Least Effort notes that they will tend to use the most convenient method, in the least exacting way available, with...
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary...
– Marshall McLuhan. So. Now you know, web 2.0 obsessed tumblin’ chums.
An Arsewipe Writes...
“Fellow British Patriot
Question Time is scheduled for 10.35pm tomorrow evening (Thursday) and will be a milestone in the indomitable march of the British National Party towards saving our country.
Our violent opponents on the far Left have promised to lay siege and barricade the studio venue, because they know only too well that this could be THE key moment that propels the BNP into the...