Links from Friday 22nd July 2005

Just a few for the weekend as I’m chairing a panel at OpenTech 2005 this weekend. Guess that’s the first link.
Link: OpenTech 2005
Cory’s speaking at OpenTech (it’s NotNotCon, okay), so this primer about him on the BBC (He’s a Digital Citizen, which makes him sound a bit like Jeff Bridges from Tron) might be worth […]

Links from Thursday 21st July 2005

John Dvorak lays into the Creative Commons Licence, asking “…how Creative Commons works or what it’s supposed to do that current copyright law doesn’t do.”
Link: PC Mag
El Reg does it’s best to respond to Dvorak and calm the waters.
Link: The Register
Oh my god the sky is falling! There’s a security hole in the majority of […]

No World Record Waltzers For Me

I’m a bit upset today. I’ve been looking around for some wacky new project (as if Orgasmatones and TPN Rock weren’t enough? - Crow) and I had come across an idea of setting a World Record at something. But it had to be something that typified me, that came across as “only Ewan would do […]

Links from Wednesday 20th July 2005

Rather twisted look at podcasting and why it will die. Insert tounge in cheek before reading.
Link: The Death of Podcasting
I know the example here is Lost, but really I think the new Battlestar Galactica is a better show. And TV execs should realise they’ve not lost 10% of their potential audience, they’ve found a significant […]

Links from Tuesday 19th July 2005

Feeling a bit down today, so having Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon on rotation is suiting my mood perfectly.
Link: Amazon.co.uk
Steve’s gathered a whole bundle of one line tips and tricks over on his 3-Lib website for Symbian users.
Link: 3-Lib Knowledge Base
If you fail to meet your budget, then you… re-write the rules […]

4 gig iPod Shuffle - Listening Blindfolded

For all that they’re small and svelte and functional, the iPod Shuffle is, in my opinion, a really crap mp3 player in it’s 1 gb incarnation, let alone any 2 gb and 4gb versions that may come along this Autumn.
I can just about live with the idea of auto-filling your MP3 player with a random […]

Links from Monday 18th July 2005

Edinburgh bus drivers “on strike” say the council, with a “we’re not doing overtime” for the rest of the week. And I guess it depends on the contract, but I always assumed overtime should be a voluntary thing. Contracts which simply say that employees are “expected to do a reasonable amount of overtime” always strike […]

Which Ewan Are You?

Link: Which Ewan [McGregor] Are You?

Mash-ups: Music Around The Web

You know, Jazz Musician Humphrey Lyttleton has a lot to answer for. Over the years, he’s consistently tried to get the idea of a simple new musical genre into our heads, and invariably fails. Here’s one of his more gentle attempts:
It is hard to explain the rules of this particular game, involving as it does […]

Harry Potter, For The Record

It took 16 hours. I guess with shopping to do, sites to maintain, a house to pack, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it, I could have found the electronic version by midday (which is how long Order of the Phoenix took). But I’m pretty happy with that, all things considered. Now […]

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