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A good write-up on the absurdities of political correctness by my fave shock-blogger, violent acres.

Sometimes (like with this article) I find myself reading it and every sentence makes me think “Yes… Yep..”, I couldn’t agree more with what (s)he has to say… But other times violent just comes across as what us brits call “a nutter”.

(S)he does make me wonder whether it’s all a fix-up for ad-revenue.. But what the hell! Most of the blog entries are very thought-provoking articles which whether you agree with them or not do bring up some specific viewpoints.

… Though my theory is that violent is a (male) linux geek with too much spare time… Sorry is that un-PC .

Technorati Tags: violent acres, political correctness, unPC

I noticed a couple of days ago that a site I regularly use, www.loyalty-points.co.uk has been taken down. I thought it was probably just a temporary thing whilst the owners got their account in good order with their ISP or whatever, but a few days have passed and it’s still “suspended”…. So the question remains: why?

Basically, the site shares tesco points codes between users, so that people who order their groceries online can get extra points back, and then get stuff in exchange for their points…. Like holidays or MFI furniture.

After watching a crapumentary about Tesco tonight (sensationalism, yet again), it makes me wonder if big-bad tesco is behind this site being down? But to be honest, I think a more reasonable explanation is that simply the owners have stopped supporting the site, which to be honest is a lot of a shame .

It’s a shame because the site had a good community going, and although I wasn’t really part of the site it was a good site(tm). It seems that for the last 6 – 9 months that the owners/admins of the site haven’t been updating the stickies so it seems that it’s farewell.

If anyone knows anything else about loyalty-points.co.uk, please email me as I’m going to have to find another source for my codes (and www.paidtoshop.co.uk isn’t as good).

Technorati Tags: tesco, loyalty-points.co.uk, site down, clubcard, tesco clubcard

Just seen this posted on theregister.co.uk…

Apparently, the newest addition to the UK Army site is an auction which allows you to bid on old army gear…

How about a Green Goddess starting at £1000, or a Royal Navy dental kit for £120. Or maybe an army Landy starting at £5750?

Get on over to the flea market at here.

Technorati Tags: army, mod, surplus

So, I was browsing digg.com, trying to find something to send me to sleep, and I came across an article about TurboTax charging safari users more? What better way to send me to sleep than read about a tax website?

I browse on over, and see the weird observation by a flickr user that when they open the turbotax site in safari and firefox, side-by-side, that it comes up with differing prices. WEIRD!

Anyways, I decided to investigate myself. I opened IE and Firefox, both appeared the same ‘cheap’ price…. I opened opera, and lo-and-behold, it comes up with the more expensive price?

At first I thought this was just one of those trial different pricing schemes like amazon was supposed to be running a few years back… But YES – it does appear to be targetting specific web browsers?! Weird eh?

Here’s a pic

UPDATE: Here’s another posted by a digg user (shows four browsers, 3 diff prices)

Either way it looks like turbotax are being naughty with their prices.

Technorati Tags: turbotax, safari, firefox, internet explorer, opera, different prices

I’ve just stumbled on a discussion about a newgroup posting 10 years ago, where someone called Kristian Thommesen (a student) was asking about the possibility of 1Gig RAM in PCs. Anyways – a user called Scott Nudds shot-him-down in flames saying that the maximum anyone could ever need is 200MB.

This throws up two things:

1) People NEVER EVER LEARN. God – everyone knows that bill gates said this about 640KB.

2) Some people just love to cause an argument.

After a bit of googling, I stumbled across quite a few postings here (#4) and there, and all of them seem to point to the fact that Scott Nudds was/is a troll.

Which leads me to my next point that people never learn: Don’t feed the trolls.

Technorati Tags: Scott Nudds, Kristian Thommesen, Troll, 1GB

God – what a sham the BBC TWO court documentary The Verdict was! I think they were trying to show a real trial, but they just couldn’t seem to stop making Archer look like a perv (how many times did he say virgin?), or the judge (rubbing his glasses).

Archer wouldn’t even be allowed on a jury (Because he’s a criminal). I think Portillo is a lawyer, so wouldn’t be allowed on and I’m not sure of the legal history of Stan Collymore.

It seems like the BBC are trying to sensationalize still… If this was a real case, how come they didn’t just pick random members of the public like the similar Channel 4 documentary last week.

The only good thing about this program was that Stan Collymore seemed to come across as the most normal person on the jury!

Technorati Tags: The Verdict, Jeffrey Archer, Portillo, BBC

WOW! This device is cool! It’s a NAS server that you shove whatever SATA drives you want in there, but the cool thing is that on top of being a NAS drive it’s got a bit-torrent client running – so you don’t have to leave your computer on to download torrent files!

I’ve wondered about this type of thing for a while. Just have to find out where I can buy one in the UK now!

Update: I’ve been frantically looking and there doesn’t appear to be anywhere to buy one in the UK!!!
Technorati Tags: NAS, BitTorrent, Planex

Wow – just seen this on losteastereggs.blogspot.com. I’ve got to admit that LOST is wearing a little thin these days… The plot never seems to advance much. I mean – in this latest episode all that really happened was that Kate and Sawyer escape… And that’s it.

I can remember reading a while ago that the LOST production team were going to set an end-date for the series, however I’ve kept trying in vain to find this out! It seems that they might have set a date, but not actually announced it.

One cool thing – that I didn’t even think of, was to reverse the audio of the freaky torture room.. Someone did this, and they produced the weird freaky voice … “Only fools are enslaved by time and space”. It seems that LOST are definately going down the time/space type thing, what with the Stephen Hawking book featuring fairly prominently in the episode too.

I really hope they don’t continue to drag LOST out too long… I mean, if they decide that season 6 is the ending, they could always carry on with series 7 as in What happens when they got home? What changed? Hurleys millions etc. The doc’s wife, Kate in prison etc. We can hope!

Technorati Tags: LOST, ending date, Stephen Hawking, only fools are enslaved by time and space

Just been reading on digg about the OSC Open Source Consortium slamming the BBC for locking in their on-demand TV with Microsoft.

I 100% agree with the OSC’s argument – the BBC’s charter says they are unbiased and yet they decide to use the services of a proven monopoly that is also under investigation by the EU?

I mean, really, there should be no argument over this content. The BBC produces it using public money, our licence fee, and therefore once the content is created it should be available int he public domain.

The programmes on the BBC should be available for everyone in the UK to download, whenever they feel like it, by using bittorrent.

The BBC seems to have forgotten that they are where they are because we, the UK public, pay for them.

The programmes belong to us.

Technorati Tags: BBC, OSC, Microsoft, slammed, DRM, on-demand

Yet more bullsh*t from a once-great UK telly program: Panorama. I watched the first few minutes, mainly due to there being nothing else worth watching, and I’ve exhausted my criminal minds, lost and prison break downloads… (Even Ugly Betty rather than this).

But what a load of rubbish Panorama was… To save you from being put through the torture yourself – it basically said that everyone is at risk from violent crime, and no-one wants to step in to help due to fear of reprisals and arrest… So whats new?

It then brought out a load of unfortunate stories, where people had tackled robbers and youths and either become a hero, or died.

I’ve got to admit that Tony McNulty MP telling us to jump up and down is just stupid, but then – when did MP’s say anything that does actually make sense? MPs live in a world so far removed from UK housing estates that they will never be able to understand them.

All I’ve learnt from this documentary is that society can’t help but wind itself up into a frenzy by hanging onto every word of the media.

The BBC should know better.

Technorati Tags: BBC, Panorama, Jump Up and Down, MP, Jeremy Vine, Tony McNulty