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Fancy a movie?
If you’re in Glasgow this weekend, you can catch the award-winning Manasarovar at the GFT: it’s on at 2pm on Sunday 27th, and 8.45pm on Monday 28th before starting the rest of its run in the UK. From the Manasarovar web site: Manasarovar is a love story that ends before it begins. Ravi Roy (National…
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Hunter S Thompson’s followers
In an excellent piece in The Guardian, Jon Ronson points out that many HST wannabes miss the point: It is the morning after Hunter S Thompson’s suicide, and I am reading loaded magazine’s recent interview with Iggy Pop. It begins: “Iggy Pop! Shit man. I’m alone in a hotel room thinking I’ve overdosed on coke.…
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New iPods
As ever, the rumour mill got a bit excited and the reality is a bit less dramatic. Here’s the lowdown: iPod Mini now comes in two versions: 4GB for £139 and 6GB for £169. There are a few cosmetic improvements but not the rumoured colour screen. The “proper” iPod now comes in three configurations: 20GB…
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Moral cancer
Lock up your children: the Traditional Values Coalition warns parents that letting your kids watch Shrek 2 means they’ll become crazed, crossdressing deviants. DreamWorks is… promoting cross dressing and transgenderism in this animated film. I have every sympathy with parents who worry about the increasing vulgarity, commercialism and violence of a lot of TV programming…
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More DRM madness
Over the last few days, BoingBoing has been highlighting some particularly loathsome examples of DRM craziness. HP seems to be responsible for two of the most ridiculous examples: HP inkjet chips die after a pre-determined time, even if they’re full of ink and perfectly operational. HP laptops have a hard-wired list of hardware that you…
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Free fonts that aren’t awful
MetaFilter highlights an excellent new weblog about free fonts. It’s definitely worth bookmarking if you do any design for print or web.
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Not a good time to buy an iPod
My wife called me earlier, looking for advice: one of her colleagues wants to buy an iPod and is dithering between the Mini and the iPod proper. My advice: don’t buy anything just yet, because the iPod rumour mill is exploding. Think Secret is suggesting a revamped Mini range could be announced tomorrow, while as…
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Hunter S Thompson, RIP
Sad news: legendary journalist Hunter S Thompson has killed himself.
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Ned comedy
If you don’t live in Scotland, you probably haven’t seen this: it’s Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson announcing a get-tough policy on anti-social behaviour by neds (“Ned” is the Scots equivalent of “yob” or “chav”). As a letter in today’s Glasgow Herald puts it: It was comparable to the scene in the Pink Panther film when…
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Bad news for Napster
I mentioned a few days ago that the big problem with Napster To Go was the digital rights management technology that prevents you from keeping the music or burning it to CD. Now BoingBoing links to a strictly theoretical exercise that suggests you can turn a 14-day Napster trial into 252 CDs of DRM-free music.…