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I cancelled my Sky subscription mid-year. I’ve not regretted it. It’s not an anti-Murdoch or other political political statement, or anything like that. Truth is, I barely watch TV nowadays and can survive very well on a combination of radio, podcasts, video-podcasts, bittorrent and free-to-air TV channels; the BBC, channel4 and so forth. Saving £30

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The Spectrum Swindle – Mises Institute In terms of revenue generation, the FCC is second only perhaps to the IRS in extracting wealth from citizens and businesses. In addition to the various USF-related taxes, the FCC is required to collect regulatory fees each year. In 2006 it collected $2 (tags: broadband business politics government communications)

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Operating systems for really, really old computers – Ubuntu Forums Distributions, distributions everywhere, nor any patch to fix… (tags: linux ubuntu) » Best picture quality with 6 megapixels! I’ll take this “under advisement” – they have a point, but this glibness of this advice is likely to be recycled as urban legend for years to

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UK Plan for Creationist Theme Park Draws Fire — 12/20/2007 London (CNSNews.com) – A British charity has drawn national attention — and come under attack — over plans to build a theme park, including a television studio, to promote creationism. The AH Trust said in its annual report that it wants to build a $7-m

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Courses – Open Yale Courses (tags: education courses yale free) Abandoned Sun Microsystems building photo-tour – Boing Boing Sigh – I used to work here on occasions… PAL01. (tags: sun sunmicrosystems abandoned) Buy n Large This has got to be the most advanced viral-marketing website I have ever seen, all in support / backplot for

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This is ludicrous to anyone who knows a jot about computing: A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case. TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association of America. A judge made a default ruling in favour of the MPAA

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Time Cube The primary purpose for Education is not Subject matter, but subservience to accept any crap taught without opposing thought, destroying opposite brain to be submissive android. You’re taught to be stupid. (tags: philosophy conspiracy funny science) NASA – killer death star roasting planets (tags: astronomy photography science) What I’ve Learned: Michael J. Fox

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Sinfest – Surveillance Cameras “They spy on us because we are BEAUTIFUL!” (tags: sinfest comic Security) BBC NEWS | Politics | Probe into missing driver details A US information technology company is investigating how a hard drive from the Driving Standards Agency went missing in its premises. (tags: Security privacy) The Great Firewall: China’s Misguided

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viewership stats for alecmuffett.blip.tv ; doing pretty good. 🙂 1055 views: IT Futurology (& the Terabyte iPod): What could happen to the web by 2012 ? 743 views: What’s It Like To Ride A Recumbent Trike 575 views: Muffett On Web2.0 Security 453 views: Hacking A Topbox 328 views: What’s It Like To Ride A

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Twine. Yay: Making sense of an ever-increasing number of emails, web pages, feeds, and social networking contacts is a tough job for even the most organised person. But now a new website can organise your life like a personal assistant, say its developers. Hmm: Its website called Twine, which is currently in beta testing, harnesses

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Left-Hand-Turn Elimination – New York Times Last year, according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas (tags: technology) Brits! Petition for mandatory notification following data hemorrhages – Boing Boing The petition

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24-Hour Michael Bolton Station Declares Bankruptcy | The Austin Probe – Austin News what i can’t believe is that this is for real (tags: news radio) Review: Windows XP – Coding Sanity I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I

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