links for 2008-09-16

"The Daily Sport said it was fully aware of the seriousness and sensitivity surrounding mental health issues and that it had felt the article was a fair, balanced and factual report". After publishing a 'top ten suicide hot spots' list. Nice one.

"Do you want it to be in one spot under one URL, or do you want it 6 categories, 4 tag archives, and monthly, daily and yearly archives? Lastly do you want google to guess at which URL's you want the content indexed under or would you much rather tell it where to look and what to ignore?". There will be a post on currybetdotnet about duplicated newspaper content later this week.

"Its called domain based digital rights management. Apple already uses a version of it. Total freedom until you want to share what you bought with a friend...or use it on a non-compatible device.This DRM has a new name and may even be a bit less intrusive. But it's still DRM, and as such faces certain consumer rejection. When will we learn?"

Car meets tree, 1920's style, from the always elegantly interesting Shorpy site.

Brand analysis of the Metallica re-design, includes the great line - "but to this day, when I need to haul-ass on a production task I will crank the vintage Metallica". Likewise I have a playlist on my iPod called "Workhorse" which is nothing but Pixies, Nirvana, Tool, Foo Fighters etc for when a dealine is looming.

Stuart uses an Excel spreadsheet categorising a day's output to defend the value of the Licence Fee in the face of the critical onslaught from Noel Edmonds. I wonder if he used the programme ontology?

Brazenly suggests post-moderated comments. Have you seen the average contents of a blog spam filter? The other 6 are very good points though ;-)