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The Press Association: Britons 'waste £52bn on gadgets'

This story arrived in my inbox yesterday and like all good headlines it did grab my attention but the more I read the story and similar related ones doing the rounds the more curious I have become about the source and its methodology.

The source of the story seems to be a British based magazine called [...]

Honda FCX Clarity | Hydrogen re-filling station

The hydrogen-electric Honda

The FCX Clarity is a pretty impressive piece of high-techory but why must we wait 10 years or so before such gizmos are generally available when clearly they could have been made before now. The almost inescapable answer is that complementary relationship between car makers and oil companies is determined to wring [...]

Twitter hiring workers to turn Tweets into money | Reuters

It seems that Twitter is looking to cash in on its users according to this unsurprising news story. Perhaps the collective twitter mind could be tapped for some inspired business ideas. Imagine a tweet from twitter…we love giving you this free service but someone has to pay, send us your ideas.

Twitter hiring workers to turn [...]

Oz firm seeks talented IT developer • The Register

oh dear…

Surely not…

Oz firm seeks talented IT developer • The Register.

No shadow can take your place...

A song by the wonderfully talented Tiffany Eckhardt tells me to shine today, something I’m sure Auntie Gertrude would agree with, my lack of illumination not withstanding, yet I am sorely troubled by two things that have surfaced on my screen in recent times.

The first one I want to share is a job ad. I [...]

Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com

Twitter has been on my mind a bit lately and David Carr’s piece reminded me of a draft post I have in the pile of unfinished stuff lying around. At first I thought the two lines of thought might cross over but Davi’d article takes a fairly familiar line so I guess my Twitter Confession [...]

YouTube - where old TV promos go to live.

I love boing boing! Check out the cameras and the typewriters but the fashions…omfg!

YouTube – WITI TV-6 – News Update [1982] {1 min}.

Guy Rundle on the current technical revolution

Guy’s article caught my attention because he revealed the rather depressing news that eBooks outsold their physical predecessors on Amazon over the Christmas Consumer Festival. His argument though is nothing particularly new, the idea that our society and culture are underpinned by various needs and the material way in which these needs are satisfied which [...]

5 minutes with Kindle

A friend turned up tonight with a Kindle which he bought out of Amazon in the US for around $350.00 Oz and generously let me play with it for about 5 minutes which makes this a kind of first impressions report.

With its thickish device sandwiched between heavy covers with some sort of mock leather finish [...]

A casualty of the Liberal implosion?

It seems that the government’s plan to achieve structural separation of Telstra are not going to make it through the Senate this year. Hours of debate over the CPRS (Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme) has meant the bills will now sit in the todo list until next year.

Of course the bills were part bluff to start [...]