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Hollywood filming of #RonHoward’s #Rush at #Blackbushe Airport was rushed & somehow ill-informed
Backplot (in chronological order): Discovery Analysis Engagement Update If I read the latter of Rachel’s postings correctly, it appears that whomever requested – or perhaps organised – the deal to film Ron Howard’s new Formula 1 movie on Blackbushe Airport: was not made aware that (Wikipedia notwithstanding) Blackbushe Airport is built on Common Land for…
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Talk: “Why you and your phone are huge threats to the Net” #rdggeek Jan 10 http://goo.gl/hjUlO
I’m speaking at Reading Geek Night next Tuesday evening; the evening is themed around the future, apparently, and Jim is seeking other content for talks in the upcoming year. 10..15 minute rant, plus questions. See you there?
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Of murder rates and death penalties…
2008/9: 648 – “20 year low” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/murder-rate-hits-20year-low-1748627.html 2009/10: 619 – “lowest for 12 years” (Huh?) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/murder-rate-lowest-12-years Stats for 2010/11 do not seem to be out at the moment. Analysing claims that “the murder rate has doubled since the end of the death penalty” http://fullfact.org/blog/murder_rate_doubled_death_penalty_abolished-2924 Short version: the stats aren’t available for like-to-like comparison, maybe it’s…
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#WhatsApp is being educated in full-disclosure
The first lesson is always the hardest… via WhatsApp Status Changer. Since a while there are rumors about leaks in the ‘amazing’ and free-to-use app WhatsApp. The engineers of WhatsApp are telling their customers that they will fix it as soon as possible while it’s been a long time now. So on this website we…
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iPhone 4S Users Consume Double the Mobile Data of iPhone 4 – Tech Europe – WSJ
How service providers see the people to whom they provide service: WSJ: 1% of users are consuming 50% of data In tackling the demands on their network—and in the absence of additional spectrum to carry the data, or more efficient technologies such as next-generation LTE which allow more data to be carried over existing frequencies,…
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Nokia and Microsoft to “spend a fortune on marketing” HT: @TheTechEye # why this will not work
Via @TheTechEye Rumours that Microsoft and Nokia are set to spend over $100 million on marketing Windows 8 tablets and smartphones are rubbish, according to veteran vole-watcher Paul Thurrott, who claims that they are going to spend a lot more. Thurrott said that he has been given the real marketing figure and it is a…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-06
New: #Airzound – A New Toy! #cycling #mtb http://t.co/q4LKP9x3 # @dc4420 Is there a meeting on the 17th ? Got speakers ? # New: Falling off a cycle has never been so much fun… http://t.co/DHluGniI # New: How many vendors have 'celebrated' the 'death' of their software? #ie6 http://t.co/GUnxlJYr http://t.co/ABDvkKlr # :: Why you might…
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NASA go open-source
No, really. I have no idea what this will achieve, but given what they have aegis over it is bound to be interesting…
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So it seems that with the takeover of TweetDeck comes the death of RTs that propagate to Facebook.
Bummer. We shall have to take other measures…
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This is what happens then you sand a macbook…
http://www.reddit.com/tb/o48iv Like, but… no.
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Do not taunt the frog…
It’s been blogged everywhere, but just in case you missed it: http://youtu.be/WlEzvdlYRes
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Why you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
tl;dr – read this link, all of it. I used to read The Economist – until I economised. I’d subscribed on the personal recommendation of ESR who said it was some of the best writing I’d find in a news journal; and then later – as a consultant – I kept it up because as…