Archive for February 3rd, 2010

— Death Swing – Australia —

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: www.youtube.com
    Bloody hell!!    

SeeSaw – A great place to watch TV

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: www.seesaw.com
    If you like iplayer, you'll love seesaw – they keep programmes for much longer.

you need to pre-register and wait for an invite, but it's worth it.

UK ONLY    

Police have more than 10,000 ANPR cameras • The Register

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
    The UK – where Big Brother is alive and well.

Basically, these 10,000 cameras record your car registration wherever you go, and keep the collated results on a database for 2 years.    

Think Aussie election rules are draconian? Look at the UK's • The Register

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
    I wouldn't say “draconian” – there are laws restricting what press can publish during an election campain – this is to stop the sort of thing that happens in America, where politicians big corporations buy advertising space and print-columns to push their political agenda – in other words, the ones with the most money get the most exposure.

What is interesting is that in these times, do these laws apply to blogs too?    

Spirit Airlines Releases Another Naughty Sounding Promo – The Consumerist

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: consumerist.com

Pope condemns gay equality laws ahead of first UK visit | World news | guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
    What a sad, sad, sad institution. As someone commented:

“o some German sitting on a self appointed throne in Italy thinks he can
tell the British people what should be in their laws because his ancient
books says so. What arrogant childish posturing.”    

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Source: wildfire.gigya.com