Archive for October 18th, 2006

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Now Reading Now Installed

Just installed a new wordpress plugin for my blog, it’s called Now Reading and you can find the results of this if you scroll down the page and look for “Now Reading” in the (right) sidebar. Anyway, it lets you put in books in your collection and allocate them to whether you plan to read […]

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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

On a lighter note… Loco Roco!

I love this game so much that I am (almost) considering buying a PSP just to play it. You can play a lovely demo on the official site or download speccy stuff from the Loco Roco myspace page. There’s even a threadless loves t-shirt comp for it (entries close 1 Nov). Some favs:
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Stem Cells and Dirty Business of Political Lobbying

I have to say I am a little uncomfortable with this ad.

Maybe it’s the idea that as the congressmen weren’t “scientists or doctors” they didn’t have a right to what is essentially an ethical opinion. That you have to have a considerable background in medical science before you can say what you feel is […]

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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

The Small Print Project

One of Cory Doctorow’s students just started up a blog documenting the incredible small print that we’re subjected to daily. It’s called the Small Print Project and people are invited to post their experiences of dodgy clauses that they’ve noticed. It’s quite bizarre what companies try and impose, this one example from Cory:
Just last week, […]

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