The Singer Company – Made in Great Britain, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. When you think green, you think hemp clothing, the Toyota Prius and save the whale stickers. That’s where environmentalists have got it wrong for a long time. There is no appeal to a self-interest apart from a vague abstract ‘global warming’ which is [...]
I went to MiniBar the other Friday with my old Yahoo! buddy Chieu and started discussing the whys and wherefores of augmented technology. We met up with Zack who was a former engineer at Yahoo! and carried on the discussion at Sichuan restaurant Barshu in Soho. The food was great. Firstly, on the surface the [...]
Matt Simmons: The Oil & Water Mix – nice statistics about potable water, metals recycling and the oil industry Microsoft Talks Google’s Privacy “Fails” at SXSW | WebProNews Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking UK copyright – Boing Boing – WTF. The BPI-authored changes the effect of which was that “the [...]
According to the March 12, 2010 (issue 489) of Popbitch, UK politicians visits to the troops serving in Afghanistan are known by HM Forces personnel as combat tourism.
I spent a bit of this afternoon getting to grips with the just-published Conservative technology manifesto. This also meant having a read of James Dyson’s report Ingenious Britain: Making the UK the leading high tech exporter in Europe as this is referenced to, and borrowed from by the manifesto. The results of this quick download [...]
Take a Virtual Walk Through Hong Kong With Google Street View – really nicely done Focus On…The US – PR Week Hi-tech governments growing keener on snooping, says report | Pinsent Masons LLP – criticising other governments for online rights and freedoms isn’t so clear-cut any more Buddy Media – Facebook page management and creation [...]
I have been noticing graphic ads appearing in my RSS feeds recently. The advert pictured that really caught my eye seems to be being served by Google, but I am sure that these adverts are appearing via other advertising networks as well. A quick search online shows the legal issues that eBay has had with [...]
Dry Planet – Products: Purchase Waterpebble – really nice green design idea Former CEO of Fujitsu Nozoe Kuniaki (野副州旦) – blackmail forced his resignation | Japan: Stippy – interesting story of boardroom intrigue. WiTopia: Providers of personal VPN services for online privacy, data security, and unblocking Facebook, Twitter, and Skype where censored. Relakks – Surf [...]
Like the Irish, immigration is part of the Chinese psyche. Reading an article in Sina.com, I was reminded of one particular tranche of Chinese immigration: prior to, and during the handover of Hong Kong; a number of families chose to move to Canada and other countries. The families lived in places with large existing Chinese [...]
Google and Transparency Five Best VPN Tools – Vpn – Lifehacker Magda Abu-Fadil: Arab Print Media Weather Financial Crunch Better Than Western Counterparts PolicyTool for Social Media – love this is a good basis Brazilian startup Compra3 launches group buying site | VentureBeat Axe Cop – genius: a 5 year-old script writer and a 29 [...]
Amazing picture from the International Space Station by Japanese astro/cosmo-naut Soichi Noguchi 野口 聡一. I love how intricate it all looks.
I didn’t put this down in the 29 things for PR people series of how-tos because I would then run the risk of being accused of polluting the site with PR piffle subjective content more orientated to the viewpoint of a paying client. Wikipedia has a good resource that explains everything from what is acceptable [...]
I am not particularly political by nature and the different political parties leave me a bit cold. Aside from Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, I have never felt the need to pay attention to political goings on in the UK. In many respects, I pay more attention to [...]
Forrester Research – data protection restrictions worldwide – your data is safest in Argentina and Germany Toyota And China. It’s A Small World After All. – China Law Blog – Chinese consumers are sensitive about Japan at the best of times, due Japan’s previous empire-building efforts. Toyota knows this and so deserves everything that they [...]
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