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HowPack.

Amazing print-outs to create fancy boxes for stuff.

Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed | June 29, 2009 | ColbertNation.com.

The above correctly shows the stupidity of people’s internet trust, and the lazyness of todays media which doesn’t do their own research.

The Riversimple car can go 80km/hr 50mph and travels 322km 200mi per re-fuelling, with an efficiency equivalent to 300 miles to the gallon.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hydrogen car to be ‘open source’.

What’s great about this story is that they’re trying to bring a complete solution to get past the usual naysaying about [...]

PC Pro: News: BT wants BBC to pay-up for iPlayer.

So.  BT at it again.  Your stupid adverts go on about how your broadband is a more “complete” broadband because you hand out a nice wireless router.  So you’ll have a strong connection to your wireless router, but that’s pretty useless if the actual internet you [...]

Cory Doctorow: We must ensure ISPs don’t stop the next Google getting out of the garage | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

The internet only took off in the UK when people were able to use it as a tool that was simply there, without concerns for costs.  Always on, always available, and the same experience for all.

BT [...]

BBC NEWS | Education | Database of all children launched.

In the naive view that a massive database with all our children’s details on will help prevent another “Baby P”.

More knee jerk reaction from our government.  How long until this information is compromised like the Child Benefit Data or a similar government mistake, and then those [...]

George Mason University Sued by Thomson Reuters over Zotero | Disruptive Library Technology Jester.

This is an example of some of the problems with closed formats.  This article shows that a user who wrote some software which can convert the files from one type of software (endnote) to another format so that the owner of the [...]

BBC NEWS | Technology | SixthSense blurs digital and the real.

Ok. So it’s still quite geeky, but this really starts to look a little like the way wearable PC’s will work.  I can see this being built into a coat maybe, a little back-to-the-future 2 style..

Now I know that’s quite a blanket statement, so let me clarify.  You may hear me harping on about the problems with DRM.  People have cottoned on to this fact quite well in recent years, and now people are looking for music without drm (i.e. plain mp3) from amazon, play.com and even itunes.  This PC [...]