Archive for June, 2004

Once you pop, you can’t stop

Posted at 8:29am on Monday, June 14th, 2004 by

Pringles are apparently soon to start printing ads on individual chips! I started to be really put off them when they made the ridiculous duck billed platypus marketed ‘dippers’, but this latest move would really seal the deal I think… No more Pringles in this house.
Found at waxy.org

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Shafton Two Gates

Posted at 8:48am on Friday, June 11th, 2004 by

Some place names round here are a little odd… Find your own.

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Public whip

Posted at 8:37am on Friday, June 11th, 2004 by

Having just had Super Thursday (ouch, Tony, ouch) it made me think it’s sometimes good to see exactly what your MP has been up to… www.publicwhip.org.uk is an absolutely fantastic service that does exactly that. (and on a sidenote – who knew that it’s perfectly legitimate for MPs to vote twice in the same division!!!)

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RFID in license plates

Posted at 8:19am on Friday, June 11th, 2004 by

RFID News is reporting that RFID tagged number plates may be one of the schemes tested by the UK Government to combat the current problem of “car cloning”. It’s clear that this will cause a massive uproar on the privacy front… Active tags on every car? You’ll have to do a lot of persuading to get the public to agree to that…

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From Abba to Zappa

Posted at 4:47pm on Thursday, June 10th, 2004 by

Test your knowledge and win an iPod. Oooh, you’re a bit tasty…

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Top 40 new words of 2003

Posted at 8:23am on Thursday, June 10th, 2004 by

Can be found here… Who knew that coulrophobia wasn’t a real word?

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How very depressing

Posted at 2:36pm on Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 by

To be so easily classified

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EU orders ‘do not copy’ functionality in imaging software

Posted at 8:28am on Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 by

The Observer reports that the EU is trying to clampdown on home forgers by enforcing the implementation of ‘do not copy’ software within imaging products (like Photoshop). Worth having a read of Declan’s comments in this post at Politech
Ta Doug

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Virtual insanity

Posted at 2:46pm on Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 by

One of these Rorschach tests made me think of Goatse. I’m clearly very sick…

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Virtual iPod

Posted at 2:43pm on Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 by

An iPod for your iPaq

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