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Downloads: wooly thinking at Woolworths.co.uk
I recieved an email from “John” this morning asking whether there was a difference between the quality of WMA files and the original CDs; he’d bought a few digital downloads from Woolworth’s online shop and thought they sounded crap. He contacted Woolies, and their reply is reprinted here: >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> Thank you…
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Another blogger booted
Another blogger gets fired for comments in their blog, this time by Waterstones in Edinburgh. More details here. {Via BoingBoing]
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Jesus, save me from your followers
(Not all of them, of course; this post is about a minority of a minority: professional complainers and their tabloid allies.) Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, Dogma, Bezhti… the list of fairly innocuous things targeted by outraged religious types (of all faiths) is a depressingly long one, with the BBC’s decision to…
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So you want to be a screenwriter?
Professional screenwriter John August’s weblog covers pretty much everything a would-be screenwriter needs to know. [Via MetaFilter]
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Sony and Microsoft to team up?
One for the “rumour and speculation” file: Yahoo! News suggests that Microsoft is considering climbing into bed with Sony in order to challenge Apple’s dominance of the digital music market. It’s a fairly flimsy story and may well be completely wrong-headed, but such a move *would* make sense for both firms. Sony would benefit from…
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Three minutes silence
It’s hard to disagree with this post on the popbitch messageboard: this wasn’t a disaster; it was a disgrace. The Centre for Nuclear Testing Monitoring with over 300 sensors able to provide early warning of such an event? Unmanned due to Christmas. Officials not having holiday period phone numbers for relevant departments in the countries…
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The Engadget awards and Sony vs Apple
The votes have been counted and Engadget has published its Gadget Of The Year Awards. There are some interesting differences between the readers’ choice awards and Engadget’s own picks, which suggests the power of the online Mac community – typically if Apple makes something in any of the categories, the readers overwhelmingly voted for it…
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Smoke gets in your lies
I received an email this morning from “The Angry Smoker”, directing me to a web site that enables nicotine addicts to “fight back”: We have been penalised, long enough, it is time to fight back! If you are fed up of being ripped off by a British government, who continually raise taxes on tobacco, take…
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See you next year
This’ll be my last post before Hogmanay, the Scottish version of New Year. Being Scots we take New Year very seriously, and on New Year’s Eve we resolve to cut out bad habits, embrace a healthier lifestyle and become better people. To demonstrate our commitment to these lofty aims, we then try to kill ourselves…
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Is a headless Mac on its way?
I got slammed a few months back for suggesting (in print) that Apple needed to sell a cheap and cheerful Mac without a monitor, and for suggesting (in this blog) that Macs were too expensive compared to PCs. However, according to Think Secret, a super-cheap headless Mac is on its way. With iPod-savvy Windows users…