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Mel reviews Food Not Lawns If you like mandalas, yoga and community theatre this might be the book for you. If you think digging a deep hole, standing in it, then getting a friend to bury your feet and legs and then water you whilst you; …raise your arms to the sky and imagine your

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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry Fascinating, gripping tale of the development of the iPhone, equally interesting for what it does not say: that iPhone is underspecced for Europe and a continent used to 3G phones. The parochialism of the US market comes through loud & clear. (tags: iphone apple

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A disappointed (occasional) reader writes: While an infrequent visitor to blogs, I think I’ve gone completely off your now. why is it mostly just a set of links? I don’t care what you’re reading as much as what you’re thinking. Help me understand the rationale. All I think when I look at the never-ending lists

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Ranum’s Law: “You can’t solve social problems with software.” Compare with the quote from James Cicconi, senior vice president, external & legal affairs for AT&T: BoingBoing: AT&T is considering adding content filters to its network. These will try to figure out if your network connection contains a copyrighted work, and censor any communications that are

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Goats on Powerpoint Slideware “You would put all management out of a job!” (tags: goats cartoons powerpoint presentations communications) The Null Device Facebook and Google anounce that they are joining the Data Portability Workgroup, a body advocating open standards allowing users of social web sites to easily move their data from one site to another.

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If this is true: The state of California is one the verge of controlling every air conditioner in the state. Title 24, California’s state-mandated energy regulatory code is about to be revised to implement a requirement that will allow the state to take control of the thermostat in every new home and office in the

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Watching all the discussion of HD-DVD (“RIP”) versus Blu-Ray, or Blu-ray is the “revenge of Betamax” since Sony owned the latter – I can’t help thinking that people are watching the wrong game. It’s not HD-DVD format vs: Blu-Ray format. It’s hard-plastic-disk-format, versus online. Me, I bet on the latter. Terabyte disks are dropping to

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Judge rules defendant can’t be forced to divulge PGP passphrase [Politech] A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled tha (tags: privacy law civilrights america cryptography)

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Macworld | CES: Casio unveils super high-speed digital camera Casio will put on sale in March a digital still camera capable of shooting up to 60 full-resolution images in one second, and video at more than 1,000 per second to realize a super slow-motion effect, it is expected to announce Sunday at the International (tags:

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Colleague Dan Lacher is looking for a toy espresso machine: Based on a conversation the other day with my little girl I am now in search of a toy espresso machine. She was playing in her new kitchen and I was being served a slice of cake. I asked if I could have a cup

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Identity theft – dontcha just love it. I maintain my slightly awkward stance on a lot of ID theft – that the term is a misnomer for fraud, used to prop up “security theatre” by banks, and that retailers who are defrauded should be the focus of legal prosecution – but this sort of thing

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Argh… “would the person in economy who is nmap’ing our navcom please stop, we need to steer”. WiReD Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The computer network

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