No Release? Buy it up!

According to the Telegraph, a fan of the TV series Joking Apart has bought the rights and is releasing it himself. Sounds good.
Is there anyone out there who would like to do the same thing with the Absolutely? I loved that series, and it wouldn’t be dated. It’s not out on DVD, which means that […]

Seattle

I was talking with a friend last night about how to get the town of Swindon "on the map", and we were talking about how the city of Seattle had managed to become one of the coolest cities on the planet.
What I don’t understand is what was the catalyst.
It seems to me that there were […]

Revolution vs Wii

The naming of Nintendo’s console as Wii and not Revolution has upset some gamers. "Wii"? Are you joking?
Something I predicted to a friend a few days ago was that if it was a good enough console, then no-one would care about the name. And based on how much positive feedback Nintendo have received, it looks like […]

Political Cinema

You can’t seem to move for another documentary movie appearing at the cinema. The new kid on the block is Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, following films like Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and SuperSize Me. There’s also an Enron movie doing the rounds.
The rise of these films has been something of a […]

Tescopoly

Can someone explain what the big problem is with Tesco? I noticed that a number of groups have now banded together to form a website called Tescopoly to rally against the giant retailer.
I’d like to post something here for all the people who don’t say much about Tesco. The trolley pushers who spend their money […]

Idea: OpenOffice.org source identification

I recently had a conversation with Andy Oram (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36) regarding how users can know what software another user can use. Andy’s post on it is here.
The issue is particularly around the question of .doc files created with OpenOffice.org (OOo) Writer. Many OpenOffice.org Writer users are creating .doc files to send to other people, which may […]

Idea:Bayesian Searching

I’ve been thinking some time about whether there are opportunities for having a tool which does "Bayesian Searching", in a similar way to spam mail filtering in Paul Graham’s A Plan For Spam.
A browser toolbar could allow a user to mark pages that were not good matches, particularly pages which try and defeat Google’s indexing […]