Caboose

By the way, if you’re ever looking for pictures of places around Cambridge Cambridge 2000 is very useful.

An excellent article by Tim O’Reilly on why the big media companies have got it all wrong: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution (via kottke.org).

Why do our governments support subsidising these industries — by changing the law to protect them — when they’re perfectly happy to watch other industries employing many more people fade away?

Couldn’t resist this: The Perpetual War Portfolio (via kottke.org)

This one’s via kottke.org: *LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS* ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22130.

I hadn’t realised that talking trees were offensive to God. I’m quite amazed by quite how easy it is to upset these people. Wonder if we can get them to analyse websites…

Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken, “Sententiae”

I found this slightly sinister site today: Geobytes

I’d love to know exactly how they can track my IP address to Cambridge, although I suppose there’s quite a lot of users all appearing to come from NTL’s proxy servers for this area.

“I’ve been places you can’t imagine.” turned up in my website stats recently, as a referrer. Very strange.

In fact there were 8 hits with that referrer. Is this somebody just having a laugh with their referrer strings in their browser?

A quick Google found somebody else who had been visited.

Makes a nice change from all the usual “http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search” stuff.

Interesting year-end stats from Google: Zeitgeist

Which Donnie Darko character are you? by Shay

Quite worrying, does this mean I’ll start getting visits from the scary rabbit guy? I do live pretty much right under the approach to Cambridge airport…

Last week I spotted a link to this Wall Street Journal article in Jim Romenesko’s Obscure Store and Reading Room.

Some of the quotes are pretty easy to laugh at (hint: it’s about being in control of the car, stupid!):

It also calls for such maneuvers as driving backwards around a corner and up the street along the curb. Touch the curb with the wheel and you flunk.

My favourite part is the way they completely fail to connect “Britain’s pass rate is under 44% and falling” with “Britain has one of the world’s lowest auto fatality rates”.

I’ve just noticed that my addition of a Blogsnob box on the right of the page has broken the layout in Opera. I’ll have a go at fixing it tonight.

It looked fine in Mozilla, probably need to tweak the stylesheet or something.