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For those of us who seldom show interest in Proton collisions at this time of the year, the coming red-button day at the CERN might have escaped our attention. The fact that a circular tunnel 27 kilometres long under the Swiss / French border will be used this summer to recreate Big Bang conditions pulling […]

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Radiohead have started a music video competition called the In Rainbows Contest over at independent video animation site AniBoom. It started two days ago - Monday 17th March - and storyboards can be sent in up until April 27.
Outline: Submitted work will be rated by the Aniboom community who will choose the 10 semi-finalists that […]

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Quaero - ring any bells? In a word it’s the former European Google-Killer turned Gallic pied de nez (cock-a-snook). There are those that have said it’s more like a bottomless money-pit which will never amount to much. There are also those that are willing to throw money into it like there is no […]

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Fact: Flash Player is the most widely installed software in the history of computing.
Question: Given today’s press release from Nokia, are Adobe going to be outmanoeuvred by Microsoft’silverlight on mobiles ?
Answer: Pull the other one, it repeats “I’m a Flash killer” in a squeaky voice
Sparked by Daren Waters over at dot.life blog
The next stage in […]

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Homes in Paris are to be fitted out with fibre optic relayed Internet connections that will cost 1 € (1,19 with tax) a month for each household connected. This has got to be the cheapest deal in Europe at the moment, no?
It’s part & parcel of the “crossing the digital divide…we want to […]

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With shake-ups and shake-downs fast becoming monnaie courante in the online music world, music discovery service Last.fm have shook a leg once again:
launching its on-demand service in the US, UK and Germany immediately, [Last.fm] plans to roll it out globally over the coming months…’the world’s biggest free music service‘.
The service allows anyone to tap […]

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Fans get a chance to have their say on managing an English football club. The Beeb’s sport page is reporting that myfootbalclub.com, [the site has crashed at the minute] a community site launched in April, has mustered £700,000 already, enough to buy control over the non-league club, Ebbsfleet United! How’s that for crowdsourcing. 20, 000 […]

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‘Borne’ Identity II

Mentioned in the last post, nearly all the free wi-fi access points promised by the Mayor of Paris, are now up and waving.
Gripe: the official Paris Wi-Fi site is not very helpful for finding a ‘borne‘ in your immediate…, there is a list with links to zoomable aerial photo views of the corresponding […]

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