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• Commented on Anti-Olympic mural censored in Vancouver
  This seems to be regular Olympic procedure now. Get taxpayers to pay for a white elephant and to cough up for junkets by the various has-beens, never-weres and criminals on the IOC, then get the government to pass laws that...
• Commented on Streisand's enduring legacy
  See also tonight's breaking news that Tiger Woods (an American citizen) has used the British courts to put an injunction on the British media so that UK citizens can't learn about stories breaking in the US. Fortunately, even if you...
• Commented on Jeff Bezos's Kindle apology: please tell us what the Kindle can do
  @ Gecko: 'Very interesting - what would people recommend as a workable ebook reader?' I have the Sony PRS505 eBook Reader and it's awesome. Much the same screen as Kindle and the usual Sony build quality. Unlike Kindle it supports...
• Commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
  I'm sure Cory didn't deliberately leave out some details of this story, but there is another take on it... ...firstly. The NPG had offered Wikipedia lower resolution images suitable for Web browsers. These would have been of a similar quality...
• Commented on Hit by a Rock from Outer Space?
  30,000mph would be a fairly average speed for a meteoroid entering the atmosphere, but smaller objects lose almost all of that velocity in the upper atmosphere because they have relatively small masses to surface area. So it would probably have...
• Commented on Spanish Flu of 1918: how bad was it?
  Although the mortality is quite low for pandemic 'flu such as 1918-19; the infection rate is still enough to cause huge problems. With huge swathes of the population unable to work because they were either ill with 'flu or still...
• Commented on Steven Johnson's TED talk about spreading of epidemics
  A big thumbs up for the book as well. The guy writes as well as he talks and there's something extremely poignant about the personal stories Johnson's uncovered from the archives; all of a sudden it's not just a story...
• Commented on British cops identify 200 schoolchildren as potential terrorists
  It's brilliant when you think about it. Brilliant politics that is. 1: it satisfies the 'something must be done' brigade in the red-top press who are the real constituency the government is concerned with; 2: it looks like the government...
• Commented on Pentagon plans to build giant spy zeppelin
  Sort of what the Pentagon was doing in the 1950s. The ZPG-3W was a giant (120m long) manned blimp which had a 13m rotating radar antenna inside the envelope. It was designed to mount a radar picket around the coast...
• Commented on Boing Boing on GOOD: Why I Like the Amazon Kindle 2 (or will once I get one)
  So no SD slot, no ePub support and no use outside the US. Well done Amazon, you've made a product with even use more tie-in than Sony....
• Commented on Climatic Heresy: 4.
  'Lawson is not a scientist but does understand politics' Never a truer word said. Lawson, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, ignored economic advice and cut taxes to secure a further Conservative term. The result was an inflationary spiral that ended...
• Commented on 1973 synthesizer music LP: BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Fourth Dimension
  The BBC put out a new recording of some of the music from the Radiophonic Workshop only last month. It's called 'The Radiophonic Workshop', but look out for the remastered version dated 2008. One of my university professors tried to...