links for 2007-11-09

IGN: Battlestar Galactica Producer Talks Strike
Ron Moore on why he’s striking and how Battlestar’s final season is affected. (Oh and the front ten eps of BSG are filmed, with the mid season cliffhanger, so it;’s in good-ish shape)
(tags: bsg galactica wga strike opinion)

Camelot pulls scratchcard amid numerical anarchy | The Register
“On one of my cards […]

links for 2007-11-08

Best Movie Death Scenes, goriest death scenes, bloody death scenes
Jim Caviezel, “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) Can’t knock the classics.
(tags: death movie toplist jesuschrist crucifiction)

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: It’s not a phone, it’s an alliance
Hey, we’ve got forty spazzo companies that can’t fuck their way out of a paper bag; let’s put […]

links for 2007-11-07

ZeFrank.com: strike day
Ze Frank returns with comments on the WGA strike (and he blinks)
(tags: zefrank strike wga writersguild tv union)

Mobile Opportunity: Google, the OS company
The bottom line: Google is now an OS company.
(tags: google gphone mobile os michaelmace symbian analysis)

Web 2.0, Kool-Aid, Aspirations and Failures : Evil Genius Chronicles
It has felt to me like these […]

links for 2007-11-06

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Eagles beat Britney to number one
Veteran rockers The Eagles have topped the UK album chart for the first time. No band has ever taken longer to reach number one, with a 33-year gap between their debut UK hit, On the Border, and this release, Long Road Out of Eden. The […]

Platinum On American, and Why Status is Good

Dean asked me, before he left for Boston, what good status is on an airline. After the current trip to the US (which finished last week as I arrived home from the aforesaid Boston), I’ve had a chance to reflect on that question. And of course this is magnified as at the start of October […]

links for 2007-11-05

T3 - It’s official: iPhone 1.1.2
UK iPhones to get firmware 1.1.2 on Nov 9. THe rest of the world is surely to follow
(tags: iphone jailbreak hack firmware sdk)

links for 2007-11-03

The new ‘Father Ted’ DVD « Why, That’s Delightful!
[From the writer, GRaham Lineham] …but really, if you’re happy with the old one, I wouldn’t buy it. However, if your old copy went on fire or got sat on or something, then this is definitely the one to get.
(tags: dvd fatherted complete ripoff)

Tech PR Gems: PRobecast […]

links for 2007-11-02

Jon Swift: Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere
According to Facebook, I am a fake, a charlatan, a nonperson and all of my more than 200 Facebook friends are the victims of a cruel hoax. My crime? Violating Facebook’s Terms of Service by not using my “real name.”
(tags: facebook identity fraud orwellian 1984)

Fake Security Theatre [Anti-terrorism] […]

My Video Podcast, Podcamp Boston and the LOLSaurs

Back from the travels, and the last stop had been Podcamp Boston. Two things of note from my point of view from the event. The first, of course, is that I’m more than happy now to tell people about “Spence” my video podcast. If you’ve not had a heads up yet then head over to […]

links for 2007-11-01

Airline bans A380 mile-high club
The potential problem has arisen because the first class area of its giant superjumbo contains 12 private suites complete with double beds. Singapore, which is the first airline to start flying the A380, said the suites were not sound-proofed.
(tags: sex mile-high a380 airbus nookie quiet)

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