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Posts from July 2008

Links For Tuesday 15th July 2008

Rare ‘Star-Making Machine’ Found In Distant Universe
Just read that headline a few times. Go on. Now: that’s not science-fiction. It’s, y’know, a real thing. Tell me that’s not enough awesome for a week, right there. That’s cheered me right up, that has.
(tags: science space stars awesome)


Links For Monday 14th July 2008

Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked … as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
I feel unclean linking to the Dail Heil, especially for a non-story like this “rebellious artist is middle class public schoolboy shocker”, but I remain a fan of Banksy’s work, and will be interested to see what impact this has on his future […]


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8 July 2008 @ 7pm

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Links For Tuesday 8th July 2008

Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
Good metaphor. I get my geek news through blogs instead of community-type sites for this sort of reason - the window where the site is gentrified enough that the a-geeks don’t annoy me but the masses and the attendant noise/churn haven’t arrived is […]


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7 July 2008 @ 7pm

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Links For Monday 7th July 2008

Warren Ellis ยป The Patchwork Years
This is an idea I want to revisit. I know a number of very creative people, and see no reason why a bunch of us should not get together and make something clever.
(tags: blogging content)

British Journal of Photography - Home Secretary green lights restrictions on photography
Very very angry now.
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4 July 2008 @ 7pm

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Links For Friday 4th July 2008

Every looked at anything you’d prefer not to admit to on You Tube?
Well, now Viacom is going to know about it. This, right here is why Google is dangerous. They may try not to do evil, but they can be compelled to hand over vast amounts of their oh-so-nice-honest data to people who […]


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