links for 2009-03-29

Although the bit I don't understand, is that it seems like it would have been OK if they'd *only* claimed for watching 'Oceans 13' and 'Surfs Up'. I must try that when I do my tax return this year...

"You can use the Twitter Web Interface for SuperTweets. You'll need to disable JavaScript to bypass the 140 character input limitation. With JavaScript off, you can construct a 250 Character SuperTweet and click the Update button. You will be presented with this message after updating...'Oops! Your update was over 140 characters. We sent the short version to your friends (they can view the entire update on the web).'"

"A story has been running on the front page of the BBC news website about a pub that’s been painted pink. If that wasn’t bad enough apparently the painting was a prank. The landlord just got up in the morning to find it that way …Yeah right and I’m an alien from Mars."

I've always argued that saving the vital link between the local press and local democracy is best served by having one situated many, many miles from the other. I mean, we still manage to cover the Olympics from the other side of the globe, right?

After "Earth Hour" on Saturday, on Sunday morning it was "anti-Earth Hour" by sitting and watching tons of carbon go up in smoke in Melbourne.

Great argument, sadly undermined by the fact that, frankly, in the current climate, even mentioning child pr0n automatically makes you an apologist and a $e% offender.

Andrew makes some good points here, but it isn't like the majority of newspapers put serious international reportage on their front pages all the time. They put something on their front pages that they think will sell papers - "the analogue clickstream" has always been measured by sales and advertising value.

"I thought of how many lives might have been prolonged, perhaps including Ferrier's, if so much earlier cancer had stopped being taken like a shaming secret to the grave."

"Well, El Reg's ghostbusting department was able - without the aid of a Ouija board - to reveal the chilling truth: What we have here is a woman in fancy dress...". The Telegraph's "ghost" story made to look distinctly foolish