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From the British Isles

18 Doughty Street is a new web based internet TV channel. They won’t hide its rightwing agenda. I wonder if it will be Fox News for the UK. Discussing politics is always good for democracy in an age where civil liberties are compromised for the Anti Terror crusade. I am looking forward for the 10th [...]

01/10/2006, 01:48

Who is Papadizi?

Papadizi played by Israeli actor Menashe Noy, a goat shepherd from Macedonia who is looking for an American wife. The short videos were released to the internet via youtube and are part of a viral marketing campaign by producer OUri Sasson MISTER GOOGLE FIND ME AMERICAN WOMAN hello internet village i am papadizi and i [more]

23/08/2006, 05:51

S5 has a future

Ryan King has announced that he will continue S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. I have used S5 a few times in the last couple of years, and really enjoyed it. The web never looks good on a presentation because of the size and the detail it presents. PowerPoint on the other hand, isn’t [...]

15/08/2006, 21:02

95 Theses of Geek Activism

A must read: Geek activism has not taken off yet, but it should. With the gamers recognizing the need for a louder voice, EFF gaining momentum and Linux taking on the mainstream on the one hand and recent severe losses in privacy, freedom of speech and intellectual property rights on the other, now seems to be [...]

15/08/2006, 18:27

Wordpress as petitioning software in two stages.

How to create a petitioning software with Wordpress? 1. Use the default WordPress theme Kubrick and change the commenting system (form) for Name, Email and Address. I shortened the comment field and labeled it as the place for entering the address. 2. I add a Page template that creates a list of all the signatur [more]

04/08/2006, 17:55