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060912 11:10 Censorship
Wikipedia makes a stand where others didn't:
The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries.
Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine, challenged other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing.
Wikipedia, a hugely popular reference tool in the West, has been banned from China since last October. Whereas Google, Microsoft and Yahoo went into the country accepting some restrictions on their online content, Wales believes it must be all or nothing for Wikipedia.
060826 21:44 Politics / Civil liberties
i have to get me one of these.
060824 20:50 Politics / Civil liberties
You can take a corkscrew on a plane but not lip gloss? And nailfiles but no nail polish!
060822 14:25 The world outside
060821 09:56 Politics / Civil liberties
"The plane was not yet full and it became apparent that people were refusing to board. In the gate waiting area, people had been talking about these two, who looked really suspicious with their heavy clothing, scruffy, rough, appearance and long hair.
"Some of the older children, who had seen the terror alert on television, were starting to mutter things like, 'Those two look like they're bombers.' [...]
...two British women with young children on another flight from Spain complained about flying with a bearded Muslim even though he had been security-checked twice before boarding.
Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally. [...]"
No, i think this is a victory for someone else...
060815 08:05 Comics
Eureka! The solution to the Middle East Crisis!
060814 15:51 Business
Western business practices are messing up the mental health of the Japanese (via WE):
A spokesman for the Mental Health Institute said that the emphasis on individual performance was driving Japanese workers - particularly those in their thirties - to mental turmoil. "People tend to be individualised under the new working patterns," he said. "When people worked in teams they were happier."
060807 23:04 Internet
Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com. Cameroon controls the .cm top level domain.
They have placed a wildcard DNS record to redirect all traffic to an ad-based search page.
I wonder... how long until the word 'typo-squat' is admitted into dictionaries?
quote of the month
Then he got a look on his face as if he were thinking. Daniel had learned, in his almost seventy years, not to expect much of people who got such looks, because thinking really was something one ought to do all the time.
Neal Stephenson, The System of the World.