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95% of Tech reporting is contaminated by Bullshit Shocker. 23 Jul 2013 | 02:50 pm
MG Siegler on Tech Blog News: A few months ago, I found myself in an odd position — with some time off. A lot of it. Naturally, I decided to use the time not to disconnect, but instead to double-down...
Porn, the Internet, and False Positives 22 Jul 2013 | 02:39 pm
A pair of great tits. Will the new Porn filters ban them? The UK government has launched into the battle against Internet Porn (again) - BBC: Every household in the UK is to have pornography blocked...
RIP Elaine Morgan 21 Jul 2013 | 04:36 pm
A true renaissance woman, and author of the fascinating thesis that man was at one time an aquatic ape. An outsider who shook the field of evolutionary anthropology.
Big Data and the Game Theory of Graduate Hiring 19 Jul 2013 | 07:50 pm
Fascinating article by Rory Sutherland in the Spectator: It’s hard to tell the difference between a university and a business school nowadays. Where are all the hippies, the potheads and the commies?...
The Internet of (Wearable) Things 18 Jul 2013 | 02:38 pm
(Above - 2016 Season Integrated Wearable Technology Suit with Wide Area Connectivity Device and inbuilt Directional IPTV Transceiver) Article in the FT today spurred me into writing something that I'...
Lessons in New Media - Amanda Palmer and the Daily Mail 17 Jul 2013 | 11:24 pm
Singer/Songwriter Amanda Palmer, who mixes acidic satire with an angelic voice (Disclosure - I am a fan) had an (ahem) wardrobe malfunction during a recent concert t Glastonbury, and the British "Dail...
Seeing the wood for the Forrest 27 Jun 2013 | 12:48 am
The misunderstanding between the law and new media gets more ridiculous - Part 437. In the last few weeks, in the UK, there was a trial of a teacher who ran off with a pupil to France, eventually ret...
Lessons from (Dead) Geek Entrepreneurs 25 Jun 2013 | 10:04 pm
There are a number of great old Victorian cemeteries in London (the Magnificent 7, they are called). Highgate in North London is the most famous as Karl Marx is buried there. A chance meeting with som...
Ten Blindingly Obvious Things about PRISMGate et al 15 Jun 2013 | 01:46 am
Like many others I've been watching the whole PRISM issue unfurl with an increasing measure of amusement and amazement, mainly that people are surprised and shocked. There is so much BS being spouted ...
Iain Banks RIP 10 Jun 2013 | 02:03 am
Science Fiction writer (Culture series) and "Normal" fiction novelist Iain Banks (Wasp Factory etc) has died, aged 59. Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. May he rest in peace.
