December 2010
37 posts
Traveling to Japan - Charlie's Diary →
Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax... →
Google paid less than 10% of the tax it should have over the last three years using a Double Irish Dutch Sandwich. This involves shuffling lots of money through an Irish subsidiary, exploiting Irish tax law. Ireland, that country which recently needed a bail out.
What Vince Cable said about Rupert Murdoch and... →
The telegraph seem to have put their foot in it. What began as a hatchet job on Cable’s reputation has backfired as it appears they withheld these statements about the Rupert Murdoch BSkyB deal. The telegraph have openly stated they’re opposed to this deal, which brings into question just how trustworthy their reporting is.
Editorial voice is one thing, but you can’t really...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
“2000 Bob The Builder “Can We Fix It?”
2001 Robbie Williams &...”
– List of Christmas number one singles (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Optimistic kids song, generic old love song, mediocre floor filler, soul-eating melancholic cover, celebrity ego stroking guilt milker, generic “talent competition” love song, cover of a generic American...
Matt Langer · A million dollars isn't cool. →
Computer Science for Fun - cs4fn: And the beat... →
An audio loop that seems to be continually speeding up. Neat.
“But while it may be true that the present system embodies an unnecessary...”
– LRB · Stefan Collini · Browne’s Gamble
After secrets: Missing the point of WikiLeaks |... →
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Guest post: What we're arguing against and what... →
Good overview of the reasons why the government’s proposed cuts are unlikely to help. By Adam Ramsay. Which is somewhat galling given I spent far too many hours trolling him and his People & Planet mates as a students. Ho hum.
gominokouhai: Well, this is embarrassing: a point... →
pajh has put together a great overview of Thursday’s festivities on Parliament Square, wtih plenty of interesting links to read.
As I didn't say to the archbishop… | Victoria... →
Victoria Coren outs herself as a theist and takes a jab or two at the current trend of evangelical atheism. And compares Rowan Williams to Patrick Swayze.
“I mean, we have one band member that would literally not even sit in the same...”
– Mike Portnoy ‘Truly Heartbroken’ Over Dream Theater Moving On - Noisecreep
Ouch. Still, good insight into why he left.
Outline of a Digital Preservation System (Aaron... →
Cars (again) - Charlie's Diary →
Networked_Performance — [iDC] Facebook Suicide... →
“US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a letter to the US congress...”
– Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths | The Australian
IEEE Spectrum: Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism →
USA v. Crippen — A Retrospective « bunnie's blog →
The Streisand Effect →
The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized widely and to a greater extent than would have occurred if no contrary action had been attempted.
See also: Wikileaks.
