Women told: ‘You have dishonoured your family, please kill yourself’ When Elif’s father told her she had to kill herself in order to spare him from a prison sentence for…
Tag: internet
Links for March 26th
”Hello America, I’m a British Muslim’ When British businessman Imran Ahmad was made redundant in January, instead of hitting the Job Centre he decided to arrange a one-man speaking tour…
Links for March 12th
Iron Maiden speak out over riot Heavy metal group Iron Maiden’s tour manager has criticised the people who were arrested for trying to gatecrash a concert in Bogota. Colombian police…
Bookmarks for March 5th through March 10th
YouTube vs PRS: whoever wins, it’s bad news for musicians – You’ve got to hand it to Google: when it threw its toys out of the pram over its dispute…
Bookmarks for February 25th through February 27th
A false sense of security – The real danger of social networks is complacency, not cancer, says Bill Thompson Ryanair mulls charge for toilets – Irish budget airline Ryanair has…
Bookmarks for February 19th through February 23rd
Techcrunch are full of shit – On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA…
Links for February 18th
Novelist Pratchett becomes a Sir – Author Terry Pratchett has been knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to literature. Sir Terry, 60, was named in the New…
Bookmarks for February 15th through February 16th
NABBC National Convention – A bright but cold morning recently greeted the delegates for the 2009 National Convention of the National Association of Brass Band conductors (NABBC) at their convention…
Runnin’ with the Songsmith
The internet is an amazing place. Here is evidence of my previous statement. Companies release tools that might be of use. People use these tools and post the results on…
ISPs – how to make me hate you
I was reading the Slashdot feed earlier and found an interesting story from Techdirt regarding various large Internet Service Providers attempts to find “alternative revenue streams”. For some reason they…
AOL 8
I’ve just spent the Easter weekend at my mum’s. Bless my old Stepdad, but he’s clueless about internet things, and with my sister living in Canada he’s keen to get…