Links from Saturday 30th July 2005

The Man (great picture)
Link: John Peel Tape and File Project

Nobody Wants the Motorola iPod iPhone

Now here’s a monumental, earth shattering surprise:
One reason for the delay could be the missing third leg of the necessary triangle, the carrier. Verizon, Sprint and other Motorola partners are planning their own digital music services, which would allow subscribers to download music directly to their phones over new broadband wireless networks. That would essentially [...]

Links from Thursday 28th July 2005

Sony PSP (or, the little Wi-Fi terminal that can play the occassional overpriced, linear game) can capture and play podcasts. Not really surprising given the open standards that the Web and RSS run on, but Dave’s Ipaq has a nice demo on how to do this.
Link: Dave’s Ipaq
If you find a vulnerability in the Cisco [...]

Links From Wednesday 27th July, 2005

Tom Coates asks where all the UK start ups are. Why are there no Odeos, Flikrs or Six Aparts in blighty?
Link: Plasticbag.org
More on Sony getting caught paying for airtime – Boing Boing links to a 1.1mb PDF that details off all the little perks these ‘desk jockeys’ recieved to push Beyonce instead of a tiny [...]

OpenTech 2005 Thoughts After The Event

So, OpenTech 2005, what did I think? Well, apart from my adventures with the iPod Shuffles (and my explanation is getting a nice tag-load of link love), I had a pretty good time. Not exactly stunning, but then I’ve found that most Tech Conferences in the last year or so to be more useful [...]

Half Blood Prince Thoughts

Right, everyone who’s likely to read this should have finished ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ by now, so here’s my initial thoughts on the book. Surprisingly, it’s about the big Snape Stuff that hits the fan.
What gets me is how JK Rowling has taken the theme of “Harry must choose between what [...]

Links From Tuesday 26th July, 2005

And if you’re wondering why music sales are down, and people are turning to the Internet for their musical hit (ahem, my TPN Rock Show Podcast, plug, plug, plug), here’s one good reason. Sony BMG have been ordered to stop paying mainstream radio stations to play the tracks from their artists that Sony BMG believe [...]

Links From Monday 25th July, 2005

Meet a new potential BBC TV Detective Series. Set in (ehrm) Cornwall, with lots of gothic murders in the parish… it’s “Vincent and Price.”
Link (image): Jibble.org
Tom Reynolds gets even more coverage for his blog – it’s BBC News Website profiling “The Ambulance Blogger”
Link: BBC News, Tom Reynolds “Random Acts of Reality.”
Alfie takes aim at [...]

Pledge Banks – UK ID Card and UK Digital Rights

In case you’ve not seen PledgeBank yet, it’s a site where people say they will do something, but only if a certain number of other people will join them in doing it. It’s had some great successes, probably the most notable one so far is reaching a £10,000 legal defence fund for those who refuse [...]

The Apple iPod Shuffle Shuffle from OpenTech 2005

Okay, not exactly one of my better ideas, but in the end nobody got hurt, and the iPod Shuffle with the PGP Private Key got back to it’s rightful owner. What am I talking about? My Physical Media Hacking experiment at OpenTech 2005.

I’m still convinced the theory behind this is pretty sound (especially when you [...]

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