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Beware DNA, “athiests” and monkeys
Deoxyribonucleic Acid, for example… sounds impressive, right? But have you ever seen what happens if you put something in acid? It dissolves! If we had all this acid in our cells, we’d all dissolve! So much for the Theory of Evolution, Check MATE! Various quotes from stupid people on the internet, via MetaFilter (this particular…
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Music biz to Apple: thanks for saving our necks. Screw you! And come to think of it, screw music fans too!
I’m hoping that part of Steve Jobs’ keynote on Tuesday will be the news that all iTunes music is going to become DRM-free, but I’m not holding my breath. The big four major labels have all made Damascene conversions to the cause of unprotected music downloads, but they want to sell them through Amazon, not…
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Maybe I’m getting old, but I like this idea
ASDA’s going to start fining drivers who park in disabled or parent/child spaces. Quite right too. The point of these things is that people with mobility problems – not necessarily wheelchairs, but the inability to walk far – get to park closer to the door, and parents get to put their kids in prams at…
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Videogames eat brains, says woman
Another day, another videogame health warning: Children should be banned from playing computer games until the age of seven because the technology is “rewiring” their brains, it is claimed. Claimed by one woman, that is.
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NetNewsWire and FeedDemon are now freeware
Excellent news about excellent software: NetNewsWire 3.1 is free! By free I mean both that we’ve released it from its cage and that it costs no money. Zero dollars. Upgrades are free. It’s free for new users. It’s freeware. You can download it right away. Here are the change notes. NetNewsWire is not alone—we’ve also…
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Sony BMG drops the DRM and makes everything easy
This is brilliant. We’re pleased to announce we are the final major music corporation to release electronic tracks without that pesky DRM! All you have to do is leave your house, go to a selected retail outlet, buy a special card there, go back to your house, scratch off the back of the card to…
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves
This is real: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design.
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Firefox 3 beta 2…
…is really, really fast on the Mac. Seems stable enough too, although inevitably online banking goes in a big huff about unsupported browsers. Download link here, beta software may taunt your relatives and eat your computer, etc etc etc.
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A gadget guide for new parents
This won’t be of the slightest interest to the majority of you, hip young things that you are, but I know that a few of you are new parents or shortly will be. So here’s some tried and tested gadgetry that really will make your life easier. Sadly it doesn’t include a robot babysitter. *…
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Is RAID enough to protect your pics?
Mrs Bigmouth wanted to watch our wedding DVD the other week, so she popped it in the player and said some very bad words when it froze. The disc has a slight scratch, rendering it unplayable a few minutes in. No worries: I’ll fling it through Handbrake, rip it to the Mac and make another…