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Archive for September, 2006
Can you guess what it is yet?
Saturday, September 30th, 2006George Carlin on Religion
Saturday, September 16th, 2006
technorati tags:humour, religion, georgecarlin, video
New Tory Logo – BBC concerned about plagiarism
Saturday, September 16th, 2006
The News Sniffer – monitoring news censorship
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006The News Sniffer project aims to automatically monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias.
- Revisionista monitors news websites and detects when articles change. The versions are viewable and the changes are highlighted.
- ‘Watch Your Mouth’ monitors the BBC’s ‘Have Your Say’ website and detects when comments get censored.
[ HT Stef at Famous for 15 Megapixels ]
Want to be hit by a car while riding a bicycle? Wear a helmet!
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006To get a greater sense of motorist-bicyclist interactions, a researcher named Dr. Ian Walker put his body on the line and went out on his bicycle, armed with a ultrasound distance meter. [...] Having been passed by motorists over 2,500 times and hit twice, he reached an inescapable conclusion: drivers passed closer to a cyclist that was wearing a helmet.
Nobel Intent: Want to be hit by a car while riding a bicycle? Wear a helmet!
[ crossposted to OpenCycleRoute ]
GPL enforced in German court
Monday, September 11th, 2006Harald Welte, the developer of netfilter and founder of gpl-violations.org has won ” the first regular civil court case on the GPL in Germany”. Further details will be released soon.
30% of Americans think Bush should be impeached
Monday, September 11th, 2006One for Alan over at The Impeachment Clock:
During the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio, just 19% of Americans initially thought Pres. Clinton should go. That was in February of 1998. At the height of the scandal, 29% of Americans thought Clinton should get the boot.
Hotline On Call: The Big Number: 30
technorati tags:bush, impeachment
Handy reference…
Saturday, September 9th, 2006…to all known conspiracy theories. Print this off and keep it handy:
http://www.redcoat.net/pics/worldconspiracy.jpg
technorati tags:conspiracytheory, funny
No more Agassi
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
In tears on match point, the sentimental favorite was eliminated from his 21st consecutive and final US Open on Sunday, and it was clear from the first game that the two-time champion Andre Agassi had lost his foot-speed and flexibility.
Bummer. I would have loved to see him playing live at the height of his powers.
God’s Army. God help us all.
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006[ Via PSOM ]
