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Facebook photo policy 'leaked'

22 February 2012, 5:38 pm
After months of controversy over Facebook's removal of certain pictures, the guidelines describing which ones should be taken down have been 'leaked'....

In pictures: Hand-held consoles

22 February 2012, 4:37 pm
A look back at some of the consoles to grace our palms over the past three decades...

Million homes 'need TV filters'

22 February 2012, 3:36 pm
Filters will need to be installed in almost a million UK homes to combat TV interference likely to occur from new 4G mobile services....

EU court to rule on Acta legality

22 February 2012, 1:03 pm
A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms....

Pirate Bay vows to go underground

22 February 2012, 1:02 pm
File-sharing site Pirate Bay vows to carry on after the High Court lays the foundations for its closure....

VIDEO: Can HP return to its former glory?

22 February 2012, 10:38 am
Can the once mighty technology giant Hewlett Packard return to its former glory?...

VIDEO: Inside 'dirty lab' taking on hackers

22 February 2012, 10:20 am
A part-government funded research unit allowing ethical hackers to simulate attacks on computer systems has been set up in Worcestershire....

Nuclear space bomb 'quite likely'

22 February 2012, 9:13 am
The government must take "more seriously" the threat of a nuclear weapon being exploded in space by a rogue state, MPs warn....

VIDEO: New PlayStation Vita is tested

22 February 2012, 7:58 am
Against increasingly strong competition, two Newsbeat listeners test Sony's new hand-held console, the PlayStation Vita to see if it's any good....

US to expand broadband spectrum

22 February 2012, 4:42 am
US Vice-President Joe Biden unveils a report that calls for nearly doubling the US wireless broadband spectrum over 10 years....

I feel like Iâ��ve just won the Internet

23 November 2011, 11:33 pm
*ahem* Bing SERP today showed that my post was at the top 4 or so… Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Bing, Firefox, Winning, Internet...

Firefox 8.0 User Agent

7 November 2011, 1:57 am
Not yet pushed out the public, but now available if you know where to look, Firefox 8.0… Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox 8.0, User Agent...

Kyocera User Agent

25 September 2011, 8:41 pm
I’ve had an iPhone since forever and I apparently forgot that the second cell phone I ever owned was a Kyocera but that was back in 2003 or so and I had to procure a certain phone because I was living in Vermont which had a limited cell infrastructure…I do remember the 2003 era Kyocera [...]...

Spoofed Googlebot User Agent

19 September 2011, 4:57 pm
Well, this visitor caught my eye earlier as the originating IP address is from the technology company Oracle but with a Googlebot user agent. Another clue that this is a spoofed user agent is that they came in off of a Google Search Engine referrer, as Googlebot doesn’t usually do that. Also, their browser [...]...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 User Agent

16 September 2011, 12:34 pm
IP Address: 96.227.#.# Operating System : Microsoft WinNT User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0) Monitor : Resolution : 1920 x 1080 Color Depth : 24 bits It’s always sweet when a friend visits you to show off his new user agent (apparently this is why I’ve garnered Internet fame). Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 preview (MSIE 10) on [...]...

BlackBerry User Agent

25 July 2011, 1:35 am
I had no idea the user agent was…Safari based. Unless this is a BB user with a Safari browser? Can you use multiple browsers on a BB? Host: 74.82.68.# Operating System: Macintosh Unknown Agent: Safari 1.3 Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9800; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.0.526 Mobile Safari/534.8 Monitor: Resolution : 360 x 480 Color Depth : 24 bits Technorati Tags: [...]...

Hereâ��s an IP address you donâ��t see that often

24 May 2011, 11:25 pm
in your Web site logs…an IP address from the range of 2.102.206.* Wow. That’s an IP4 address starting with a 2. As someone fascinated with the history of the Internet, I find this pretty cool. It’s a RIPE address (European) and assigned to the UK. Technorati Tags: IP4, IP addresses, Internet history...

RockMelt User Agent

2 January 2011, 4:12 pm
RockMelt, the new browser which takes advantage of your social networks, has a user agent. * /2011/01/01/easy-seo-update-your-copyright-notice/ Http Code: 200 Date: Jan 01 11:02:13 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 10150 Referer: - Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) RockMelt/0.8.36.128 Chrome/7.0.517.44 [...]...

Easy SEO: Update your copyright notice

1 January 2011, 6:32 pm
Here’s a quick and easy SEO trick for you. We all know that Google indexes freshly updated content on your Web site. Since it’s the New Year, take a moment and check if your Web site copyright notices are updated. Not only do you get that piece of mind from an updated copyright notice, but [...]...

Droid User Agent

19 December 2010, 7:58 pm
I noticed that some (unhip) person with a Motorola built Droid based phone on Verizon visited cleverhack the other day. I’m too lazy to pull my official logs, so here’s the sitemeter report. I am surprised to notice that the Droid runs a version of mobile Safari according to the User Agent string. Operating System: Linux [...]...

EU will refer ACTA to highest European court

22 February 2012, 1:37 pm
The European Union says it will refer the controversial ACTA anti-piracy trade agreement to the institution's highest court, the European Court of Justice, to check whether it complies with the EU's fundamental rights. EU trade chief Karel De Gucht is leading the process. He said: "We are planning to ask Europe's highest court to assess ACTA's compatibility with the EU's fundamental rights and freedoms, such as freedom of expression and information or that of protection… Let me be very clear:...

TechCrunch @ Barcelona â�� Panels, Startups, Lunch & Networking during MWC

22 February 2012, 9:21 am
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year we're teaming up with the creators of an awesome new event which runs alongside MWC, called Heroes of the Mobile Fringe Festival. Consider this the "Off Broadway" or Fringe Festival of MWC, where you get to actually talk about the real issues in the mobile startup ecosystem in a lively debate format. This interactive event will feature some of the most innovative and interesting startups and investors on the scene. Sponsored by Oracle, GetTaxi, Te...

Housebites cooks up a storm as the new Airbnb-for-takeout

20 February 2012, 3:42 pm
I must admit I was sceptical when Housebites first launched last year. It seemed a quaint little business attacking a hugely established market but in a way which looked, as least from the outside, to be unscalable. The premise of Housebites is this: the average person likes the convenience of take-out food (in the UK it's called takeaway) but the food itself is usually unhealthy and processed. So why not capture all those wanna-be chefs, connect them with customers via location and, voila, you...

Speedinvest Makes Four Investments In Four Months

20 February 2012, 10:00 am
Vienna and San Francisco based Super angel fund Speedinvest, launched just over 6 months ago, has announced it's made four investments to date. According to Founder and CEO Oliver Holle, the fund has invested more than €1 million in those four startups and doubled that sum through co-investors. The investments made are rather diverse, ranging from VoiP to an already well-known social sharing app. Sipwise, a VoiP vendor based on an open source framework catering to small regional ISPs and cab...

Ammado raises â�¬7m to solve global giving problem

20 February 2012, 9:39 am
Following the trend towards global platforms for raising money, such as Kickstarter, Ammado, which connects charities with donors, has raised €7m, and signed up several multinational partners. The investment round was led by Belgiun-based Saffelburg Investments, which put in €5.5m and John Ryan, founder of Rovi, who put in about €1.5m. Set up in 2005 by Anna Kupka and Peter Conlon, the latter has put in €8.7m to date. which means Ammado has raised a total of €15.7m so far. Ammado aims...

Tribe of Noise partners with Getty Images to bypass the record labels

18 February 2012, 10:27 am
Tribe of Noise is an online music community connecting musicians with business professionals who want music. Artists can share a few songs for free in return for exposure, new revenue streams and new business opportunities with partners. Now the startup is partnering with Getty Images. The lathers global sales force is 's going out there to sell music licenses to Getty's customers (tv broadcasters, filmmakers, multimedia pro's etc). Yes, this time stock images they are selling or stock music, ...

Runa Capital and Parallels plan to accelerate cloud startups

17 February 2012, 11:43 am
The trend in the startup acceleration industry is specialization. There are accelerators focused on health (Rock Health, Healthbox, Blueprint Health and SXSW Health) or B2B accelerators (such as Tech Wildcatters). There is even one which specializes on women-led startups in the mobile space, named predictably WomenInnovateMobile. Yes, I know... But today’s news is about a cloud software accelerator funded by Runa Capital and Parallels. Both companies have been founded by Serguei Beloussov, th...

Syrian government blocks Bambuserâ��s live video of crisis

17 February 2012, 11:20 am
Bambuser, a live mobile video streaming startup along the lines of Qik, has become something of an underground hit in the last couple of years because of its ability to stream video over poor mobile connections. That's made it a favourite of emerging markets, in part because it supports over 200 different mobile devices, from cheap Nokias to the latest iPhone. During the Arab Spring last year it was used by protesters to document various uprisings across the region. The platform has lately been...

FoundersCard is poised to hit Europe â�� But are the deals worth it?

16 February 2012, 8:20 pm
Top executives often get perks just because of who they are, like freebies and travel upgrades. The American Express’ Centurion Card for instance is also known as “the black card” for this reason. Eric Kuhn started FoundersCard in 2009, deciding to bring the same rewards specifically to entrepreneurs and founders who put their neck on the line to take ricks and create value. FoundersCard is now a membership community that boasts over 5,000 members who pay up to $495 annually to get discou...

eSellerPro raises another Â£1 million from Notion Capital

16 February 2012, 5:35 pm
E-commerce platform eSellerPro, an eCommerce software provider for multi-channel sellers, has secured a follow-on investment of £1m from Notion Capital, following the £1.8 million Notion put in 2010. The money will go towards the product and entry into new markets....

Site Progress

5 January 2012, 6:42 pm
Still haven’t finished importing the missing posts, but I did upgrade to 3.3.1. Hopefully I can get them imported in the next couple days. I’ve also noticed some weird issues with axodys.com not loading properly, but that was prior to … Continue reading →...

Site Migration

26 December 2011, 10:43 am
I’m in the process of finishing up a reimport of the old blog back into a fresh WordPress 3.3 install. Unfortunately something seems to be going awry with the last couple year’s worth of posts. Rather than banging my head … Continue reading →...

Twitter: Took my front â�¦

2 September 2010, 8:26 pm
Took my front wheel off during lunch and confirmed that my front brake pads are shot. Time to save my wheel and pick up some new ones....

Twitter: Chrome didnâ��t pull â�¦

1 September 2010, 5:07 pm
Chrome didn’t pull up the Apple Keynote so I switched to Safari and it just worked. The quality is unbelievable....

Twitter: The new mac â�¦

15 June 2010, 10:22 am
The new mac minis look like they may have some of that carved from a solid aluminum block unibody action going on. http://apple.com/macmini/...

Twitter: Watched the first â�¦

15 June 2010, 6:32 am
Watched the first third of High Fidelity tonight while getting in my workout ride. Love that movie. Saving the rest for tomorrow....

Twitter: Weird server error â�¦

14 June 2010, 11:34 pm
Weird server error just caused me to double tweet. Corrected now hopefully....

Twitter: Watched the first â�¦

14 June 2010, 11:32 pm
Watched the first third of High Fidelity tonight while getting in my workout ride. Love that movie. Saving the rest for tomorrow....

Lego Monster Chess

13 June 2010, 6:24 am
No spoilers other than things get crazy at about the 2:40 mark! Awesome work by the team that constructed this. Very, very impressive and one of the coolest Lego projects I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGtbBz1sQo...

Alien Action Figure

11 June 2010, 4:35 pm
I wasn’t even aware of the Alien movie when it came out in 1979 (being 5 or 6 years old at the time), but I distinctly remember seeing this action figure in a store in Moses Lake, WA (the mid-sized … Continue reading →...

A quote from Brian Goetz

19 August 2011, 12:20 pm
There is plenty of evidence in the ecosystem to support the hypothesis that, if given the tools to do so easily, object-oriented programmers are ready to embrace functional techniques (such as immutability) and work them into an object-oriented view of the world, and will write better, less error-prone code as a result. Simply put, we believe the best thing we can do for Java developers is to give them a gentle push towards a more functional style of programming. - Brian Goetz ...

How we use Redis at Bump

16 July 2011, 4:37 pm
How we use Redis at Bump. A couple of neat tricks I hadn’t seen before: using Redis to aggregate log files from multiple servers (they all push in to a Redis queue, then one process pulls from the queue and writes to disk), and using Redis blocking queues for RPC by specifying a different temporary queue to return the result. ...

A quote from Dan Manges, Braintree

30 June 2011, 9:27 pm
We can deploy new versions of our software, make database schema changes, or even rotate our primary database server, all without failing to respond to a single request. We can accomplish this because we gave ourselves the ability suspend our traffic, which gives us a window of a few seconds to make some changes before letting the requests through. To make this happen, we built a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python’s Tornado and Redis. - Dan Manges, Brai...

The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts

29 June 2011, 5:26 pm
The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts. I really like Adam’s description of Software Erosion—I’ve seen that happen to my projects a bunch of times, and it really is an important problem to solve. ...

Visualizing WebKit's hardware acceleration

27 June 2011, 10:31 am
Visualizing WebKit’s hardware acceleration. Command line flags for launching Safari (and the iOS simulator) in a way that highlights areas of the screen that are being hardware accelerated—particularly useful if you are using the “-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0)” trick. ...

On HTTP Load Testing

18 May 2011, 10:17 am
On HTTP Load Testing. Mark Nottingham explains that running good HTTP benchmarks means understanding available network bandwidth, using dedicated physical hardware, testing at progressively higher loads and a whole lot more. ...

We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

22 April 2011, 10:00 am
We Need to Stop Google’s Exploitation of Open Communities. Mikel Maron from OpenStreetMap is justifiably angry about Google MapMaker, which copies OpenStreetMap’s model of crowdsourcing geographic data (even copying the OSM idea of Mapping Parties) but keeps the data under a much more restrictive license, and uses the Google brand to market itself to African governments. ...

Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters

9 April 2011, 7:54 am
Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters. Jon Stokes speculates that Facebook plan to use open source hardware to compete with Google at datacenter efficiency . This isn’t a new pattern. Years ago when I worked at Yahoo! I was furiously jealous of the secret sauce technologies that allowed Google to build big applications faster than anyone else, such as BigTable and map/reduce. Today, the open source world has created better, free alternatives—sponsored in part by Facebook, Yahoo! and othe...

Qwery - The Tiny Selector Engine

2 April 2011, 8:27 am
Qwery—The Tiny Selector Engine. A quarter of the size of Sizzle (1K gzipped and minified) due to only supporting ID, class and attribute selectors. Could be useful for things like embeddable widgets and badges, where depending on a larger library is impolite. ...

Product design at GitHub

2 April 2011, 7:51 am
Product design at GitHub. At GitHub, every employee is a product designer. ...

Epson prepping budget GPS sports watch

22 February 2012, 4:58 pm
The name Epson may conjure images of flashy projectors and all-in-one printer scanners, but the company look set to be expanding into a fairly unexpected avenue: sports watches. To be precise, Epson are looking to take on the Nike+ SportWatch......

Samsung Galaxy S III to launch in July?

22 February 2012, 3:30 pm
It was disappointing to hear that Samsung would be giving Mobile World Congress the cold shoulder when it came to the launch of their highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, but at least now we've got an indication of when......

Samsung Series 9 notebook UK release date set for this month

22 February 2012, 11:59 am
Samsung have finally revealed the release date of their Samsung Series 9 laptop, with the super-slim machine hitting the UK by the end of February. Revealed back at CES, the Series 9 is the world's slimmest laptop, measuring just 12.9mm,......

Next Qualcomm Snapdragon chips will integrate LTE for better battery life

22 February 2012, 11:37 am
Qualcomm are prepping their next generation of Snapdrgron mobile system-on-a-chip tech at next week's Mobile World Congress show, and look set to include some innovative new ideas. The new chip (the MSM8960, or Snapdragon S4) remains only a dual-core affair,......

Hundreds queue for PS Vita UK GAME launch

22 February 2012, 11:23 am
Sony's PS Vita handheld games console has now gone on sale in the UK, with GAME stores up and down the country hosting midnight opening events to meet demand. The flagship Oxford Street branch saw the most activity, with hundreds......

Sexy photos and vids on 26% of Brit smartphones

22 February 2012, 10:59 am
Brits like " a bit of blue" when it comes to filling up their smartphones with pictures and videos, a new survey has revealed. According to findings from UK retailer GoodMobilePhones.co.uk, 26% of mobile or smartphone owning Brits replied "yes"......

Onkyo 2012 entry level AV receiver range packs in 7.2 and Spotify

22 February 2012, 10:11 am
Onkyo have revealed their 2012 entry-level AV receiver range, packed full of enough bells and networked whistles to rival other brands higher-end gear, such as Spotify streaming. Kicking off with the cheapest model, you've got the £299.99 5.1 Onkyo TX-NR313.......

LG focus on mobile 3D once more with Optimus 3D Max at MWC 2012

22 February 2012, 9:54 am
More pre-show smartphone news from LG this morning, who've just revealed that the LG Optimus 3D Max is headed to Mobile World Congress 2012 next week. The successor to the LG Optimus 3D, first launched last year, it features a......

PREVIEW: A-Men (PS Vita)

21 February 2012, 5:36 pm
Sony may be touting the PS Vita almost solely on its handheld power, but Polish developers Bloober are harking back to gaming's puzzle roots with their Vita launch title, A-Men. One part Lemmings, one part The Lost Vikings and......

Minority Report-style charity ad will show different info to men and women

21 February 2012, 4:00 pm
A new, £30,000 street advert is set to hit a bustop along Oxford Street in London this week, packed full of unique facial recognition tech that will be able to tell whether a man or a woman is looking at......

Doubleday Books Facebook Sweepstakes (Win Two Books About the Hidden Designs of Our World)

2 February 2012, 5:46 am
Doubleday Books has launched a contest on their Facebook Fanpage for the opportunity to win two books about the hidden designs of our world. The details are simple: Become a Fan of the Doubleday Books fanpage by Clicking LIKE and Enter the Sweepstakes on the landing page. Only persons residing in United States who are at [...]...

2012 Paperback Book Tour Dates & Locations for Physics of the Future: How Science will Change Daily Life by 2100

30 January 2012, 4:16 pm
Tuesday, February 21 Albany, NY – New York State Writer’s Institute Venue: Campus Center Ballroom Time: 8:00pm 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 Wednesday, February 22 Louisville, KY – Kentucky Author Forum Venue: Kentucky Author Forum Time: tk 624 West Main, Second Floor, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 Thursday, February 23 Berkeley, CA – First Congregational Church of Berkeley Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley Time: tk 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA Friday, Februar...

(Holiday Sale - $24) Collaboration T-Shirt (Kaku Official / Imaginary Foundation)

9 December 2011, 3:07 am
“SOMEWHERE SOMETHING INCREDIBLE IS WAITING TO BE KNOWN.” Such are the sage words of the late great Dr. Carl Sagan. Such is the axiom of The IMAGINARY FOUNDATION. And such is the life mission of physicist/futurist Dr. Michio Kaku. The big ideas and new frontiers that elevate that statement from the ramblings of mere mortals [...]...

Last Ten Blog Posts from Dr. Kakuâ��s Universe (Big Think Blog)

21 August 2011, 5:41 am
For your convenience, here is a list of the last ten blog entries from Dr. Kaku’s blog (Dr. Kaku’s Universe) hosted at Big Think. Be sure to leave your questions in the comment sections below each blog entry as Dr. Kaku will be periodically answering questions from fans. Stay tuned for more updates! MARS Updates Including [...]...

Youâ��ve Got Michio Kaku - AOL Video

12 July 2011, 12:35 am
The AOL You’ve Got Series: Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks about how science fiction will one day become reality — http://aol.it/rbcFMT (7/6/11)...

Rose-Hulman 2011 Commencement Speech

28 May 2011, 5:20 am
“Boundaries are being broken by technology,” Dr. Michio Kaku told the class of 2011 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s 133rd Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 28, in the Sports and Recreation Center. Dr. Kaku’s Delta flight from Moscow was cancelled due to mechanical difficulties. By burning the midnight oil, and with the help of [...]...

Science Friday (Office Hours with Michio Kaku)

25 May 2011, 4:08 am
Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of his office, where he writes his bestsellers and records his radio shows. The futuristic 1950s TV show Flash Gordon jump-started his interest in science. Watching it as a kid, Kaku realized [...]...

Read and Share the Last 10 Blog Posts on Dr. Kakuâ��s Universe

27 April 2011, 6:01 am
Read and Share the Last 10 Blog Posts on Dr. Kaku’s Universe and don’t forget to sign up for the Weekly Newsletter. Please also be encouraged the register an account so you can leave comments on each of the blog posts where Dr. Kaku will be answering questions. The Possible Discovery of the Higgs Will Shake [...]...

4/15 Appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) to Discuss Nuclear Crisis in Japan

15 April 2011, 5:36 am
4/15 appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) to discuss the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan and what the utility is doing to combat the issue....

Appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman (The Nuclear Crisis in Japan)

21 March 2011, 6:28 pm
What are the best-and-worst-case scenarios for the nuclear crisis in Japan? Theoretical physics professor and author Dr. Michio Kaku shares his opinions with David Letterman on The Late Show....

Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth

1 February 2012, 7:24 pm
A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to Earth's magnetic field despite the fact that it was aimed away from our planet....

Waiting for Death Valley's big bang: Volcanic explosion crater may have future potential

23 January 2012, 8:25 pm
In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently than previously thought -- and that conditions for a sequel may exist today....

Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars

15 December 2011, 6:59 pm
A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions. They have characteristics that would make the microbes capable of living in the subsurface of Mars and other planetary bodies....

Large asteroid to pass by Earth Nov. 8, but what if it didn't?

1 November 2011, 5:43 pm
An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will fly near Earth on Nov. 8, 2011. While there is no danger of it hitting the planet, an asteroid impact expert says a similar-sized object hitting Earth would result in a 4,000-megaton blast, magnitude 7.0 earthquake and, should it strike in the deep ocean, 70-foot-high tsunami waves 60 miles from the splashdown site....

Fallout of a giant meteorite strike revealed in new model

19 October 2011, 9:34 pm
Seeking to better understand the level of death and destruction that would result from a large meteorite striking Earth, researchers have developed a new model that can not only more accurately simulate the seismic fallout of such an impact, but also help reveal new information about the surface and interior of planets based on past collisions....

CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth

18 October 2011, 1:51 pm
Volcanologists have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding region....

Space observatory provides clues to creation of Earth's oceans

5 October 2011, 6:55 pm
Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. The findings may help explain how Earth's surface ended up covered in water....

First comet found with ocean-like water

5 October 2011, 5:16 pm
New evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth's oceans, which scientists believe formed about eight million years after the planet itself....

Salty water and gas sucked into Earth's interior helps unravel planetary evolution

26 September 2011, 1:53 pm
An international team of scientists has provided new insights into the processes behind the evolution of the planet by demonstrating how salty water and gases transfer from the atmosphere into the Earth's interior....

NASA's WISE raises doubt about asteroid family believed responsible for dinosaur extinction

19 September 2011, 6:40 pm
Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, keeping open the case on one of Earth's greatest mysteries....

The Answer By Quantum Physic

1 December 2011, 7:05 am
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Chaos is a Natural Part of Transformation â�� Robert Williams on CEC

30 November 2011, 6:44 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/chaos-is-a-natural-part-of-transformation-robert-williams-on-cec.html';www.CuttingEdgeConsciousness.com Subtle Energy Technology Specialist, Robert O. Williams, joins Barnet Bain and Freeman Michaels on Cutting Edge Consciousness to discuss the process of transformation. Natural law indicates that chaos is part of evolution and transformation in biological systems – this understanding can be applied to virtually ALL aspects of life. This amazing conversati...

Understanding Consciousness and Human Self ( Questions from you, Answers from Dr Seyed Azmayesh)

29 November 2011, 6:23 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/understanding-consciousness-and-human-self-questions-from-you-answers-from-dr-seyed-azmayesh.html';Understanding Consciousness: A Challenge for Modern Science Exploring consciousness through psychology, neuroscience, quantum physics and spiritual insight. Question from you and Answers from Dr Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh...

ET Disclosure, Annunaki, Anu ?=? Ahura Mazda, Atlantis/Toltec, Lemuria, Indigos, Crystals

28 November 2011, 6:03 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/et-disclosure-annunaki-anu-ahura-mazda-atlantistoltec-lemuria-indigos-crystals.html';FBI opens the ET/ UFO vault: divinecosmos.com Ancient Aliens episode that discusses Ahuru Mazda/ Zoroastrian: www.youtube.com Release date: May 31, 2011- “The Spirit of Zoroastrianism” www.amazon.com Planetary origin (where are you from)?: www.lightconnection.org Indigos/ Crystals: psychedelicadventure.blogspot.com...

OCCUPY YOUR BRAIN

27 November 2011, 5:46 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/occupy-your-brain.html';…and find out WHY so many people disagree with each other… This documentary researches the developments in neuroscience and sociology from the past decades that have shed light on many aspects of human psychology that are only now beginning to be discussed in the fields of ’self-help’ and self-development. While there is a lot of [...]...

The Big Bang Theory Season 4 Episode 22 The Wildebeest Implementation May 5, 2011 s4e22 Full HD

26 November 2011, 5:24 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/the-big-bang-theory-season-4-episode-22-the-wildebeest-implementation-may-5-2011-s4e22-full-hd.html';ishort.ca Here you can watch The Big Bang Theory full episodes online. streaming episodes, previous seasons, reviews & more. THE BIG BANG THEORY is a comedy from the Emmy Award nominated Co-Creator and Executive Producer of “Two and a Half Men” Chuck Lorre, about brainy best friends Leonard (Johnny Galecki, “Roseanne”) and Sheldon (Ji...

What The Bleep Do We Know: Down The Rabbit Hole ( Full Length Movie )

25 November 2011, 5:05 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/what-the-bleep-do-we-know-down-the-rabbit-hole-full-length-movie.html';Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality....

The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 5 The Russian Rocket Reaction s4e5 HD HQ

24 November 2011, 4:42 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/the-big-bang-theory-season-5-episode-5-the-russian-rocket-reaction-s4e5-hd-hq.html';nolink.us Here you can watch The Big Bang Theory full episodes online. streaming episodes, previous seasons, reviews & more. THE BIG BANG THEORY is a comedy from the Emmy Award nominated Co-Creator and Executive Producer of “Two and a Half Men” Chuck Lorre, about brainy best friends Leonard (Johnny Galecki, “Roseanne”) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons [...]...

Meta 2.0: Keys to the Kingdom

23 November 2011, 4:26 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/meta-2-0-keys-to-the-kingdom.html';So many people have contacted me with regard to challenges in relationships. I really recommend chapter 8 of Neale Donald Walsh’s book “Conversations with God”. You probably have to read the rest of the book to accept chapter 8, but once you get that – you’ve got it! And, along the way, so many other [...]...

Secrets of the Sacred Ark â�� 2

21 November 2011, 3:43 am
url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/secrets-of-the-sacred-ark-2.html';Laurence Gardner has ascertained that mfkzt(monatomic gold) was the secret of the pharaoh’s rite of passage to Afterlife, and was directly associated with the pyramids and the biblical Ark of the Covenant,as revealed by inscriptions at the Sinai mountain temple of Moses. With the old science now rediscovered,GOLD is fast becoming established as a logistically [...]...

New Alzheimerâ��s drugs botch brainâ��s wiring

22 February 2012, 6:06 pm
NORTHWESTERN (US) — Alzheimer’s drugs currently in clinical trials may have potentially adverse side effects, including memory damage.A Northwestern University study with mice suggests the drugs could act like a bad electrician, and cause neurons to be miswired and interfere with their ability to send messages to the brain....

With gold, a tiny test for poison gas

22 February 2012, 3:47 pm
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — Researchers have coaxed gold into nanowires in order to create an inexpensive test for poison in natural gas.Alexander Star, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, developed a self-assembly method that uses scaffolds to grow gold nanowires....

To eat healthy when happy, focus on future

22 February 2012, 3:00 pm
PENN STATE / TEXAS A&M (US) — Emotional eating can lead people to eat when they’re happy, but focusing on the future can result in healthier choices.Having a good day at work, for example, can sometimes lead to a candy bar treat from the vending machine, according to Karen Winterich, assistant professor of marketing at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. At other times, positive feelings lead to choosing a healthier option, such as fruit....

Military death sentences higher for minorities

21 February 2012, 10:55 pm
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Skin color plays a role in deciding whether to execute military criminals, according to new research that finds minorities in the military are twice as likely as whites to be sentenced to death.The study of military prosecutions in all potentially death-eligible murders from 1984 to 2005 identified 105 death-eligible murder cases and found unprecedented racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty in the United States military. Death-eligible offenses ...

New clues to how HIV avoids bodyâ��s attack

21 February 2012, 10:40 pm
UC DAVIS (US) — Tissue infected with a close relative of HIV can ramp up production of a type of T cell that actually weakens the body’s attack against the invading virus.The discovery, in lymph nodes draining the intestinal tract, could help explain how the HIV virus evades the body’s immune defenses. The findings, based on a study with monkeys, are reported in the journal AIDS....

Quick test predicts if transplant will stick

21 February 2012, 8:18 pm
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — A simple, 10-minute bedside exam can predict which kidney transplant patients are most likely to do well with a new organ.A report in the journal Archives of Surgery suggests that a recently developed “frailty” test—typically used with elderly patients—is actually a useful tool for evaluating kidney transplant candidates of all ages....

Coastal aquifers hurt by use, not climate

21 February 2012, 7:39 pm
MCGILL (CAN) — Human activity is more of a threat to coastal groundwater used for drinking than rising sea levels from climate change.Grant Ferguson from the University of Saskatchewan department of civil and geological engineering worked with Tom Gleeson from McGill University‘s department of civil engineering to examine data from more than 1,400 coastal watersheds....

Cells coax damaged nerves to reconnect

21 February 2012, 7:32 pm
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Researchers have taken a step toward repairing nerves more effectively in patients who have been involved in car accidents or suffered severe injuries.In a paper published in the journal PLoS One, neurosurgeon Jason Huang and colleagues at the University of Rochester report that a surprising set of cells may hold potential for nerve transplants....

Flame retardant linked to autism risk

21 February 2012, 6:36 pm
UC DAVIS (US) — Exposure to flame retardant is linked to smaller offspring with social and learning issues, according to a study with mice. Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to autism-like behaviors that were exposed to a common flame retardant were less fertile and their offspring were smaller, less sociable, and demonstrated marked deficits in learning and long-term memory when compared with the offspring of normal unexposed mice, the researchers report.The University of Californ...

Telescope snaps gamma-ray bursts in orbit

21 February 2012, 5:57 pm
PENN STATE (US) — The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope allows scientists to measure the super-fast jets that produce gamma-ray bursts.Detectable for only a few seconds but possessing enormous energy, gamma-ray bursts are difficult to capture because their energy does not penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere....

VIDEO: Should false widow spiders worry us?

22 February 2012, 1:49 pm
Experts say they have seen an increase in the number of Britain's most dangerous spider, the false widow. But should it worry us?...

Confessions of a climate gate-opener

22 February 2012, 1:24 pm
What do documents from climate sceptic group really tell us?...

AUDIO: UK 'overtakes US' in physics

22 February 2012, 11:15 am
Dr Beth Taylor of the Institute of Physics explains why Britain has overtaken the US in the field of physics research....

Path of tsunami debris mapped out

22 February 2012, 10:38 am
A year on, modellers continue to provide daily forecasts of the likely spread of floating debris washed out into the Pacific by the Japanese Tohoku megatsunami....

VIDEO: Petition calls for cormorant cull

22 February 2012, 9:45 am
A petition calling for more cormorants to be culled is being handed to the Fisheries Minister....

Nuclear space bomb 'quite likely'

22 February 2012, 9:13 am
The government must take "more seriously" the threat of a nuclear weapon being exploded in space by a rogue state, MPs warn....

Humboldt squid's impressive dives

22 February 2012, 8:48 am
Scientists tag Humboldt squid as they dive through very low-oxygen waters off the coast of California....

Ancient tracks are elephant herd

22 February 2012, 8:18 am
Vast trails of seven-million-year-old fossilised footprints reveal the "social structure" of prehistoric elephants, say scientists....

Amphibian family first for India

22 February 2012, 2:40 am
A new family of caecilians, the most enigmatic branch of the amphibians, has been discovered in northeastern India....

UK study reveals GPS jamming use

22 February 2012, 12:01 am
The illegal use of Global Positioning System (GPS) jammers in the UK is highlighted in a new study....

Hubble discovers a true water world

22 February 2012, 2:52 pm
Our solar system contains three types of planets: rocky, terrestrial worlds (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), and ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). Planets orbiting distant stars come in an even wider variety, including lava worlds and “hot Jupiters.” Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have added a new type of [...]...

Real value of a green card? About $1,000 per month

22 February 2012, 2:44 pm
Just what does it mean to get a green card? To some applicants, about $1,000 each month. A recent study by a Universityof Nevada, Reno economist and a graduate student found that employer-sponsored workers in the United States on temporary visas who acquire their green cards and become permanent residents increase their annual incomes by [...]...

Education doesnâ��t increase support for affirmative action among whites, minorities

22 February 2012, 2:42 pm
Highly educated whites and minorities are no more likely to support workplace affirmative action programs than are their less educated peers, according to a new study in the March issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, which casts some doubt on the view that an advanced education is profoundly transformative when it comes to racial attitudes. “I [...]...

Nanotech converts body heat into power

22 February 2012, 2:37 pm
Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juice to make another call simply by touching it. Developed by researchers in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University, [...]...

Chemists build an â��offâ�� switch for pain

22 February 2012, 2:35 pm
The notion of a pain switch is an alluring idea, but is it realistic? Well, chemists have now shown in laboratory experiments that it is possible to inhibit the activity of pain-sensitive neurons using an agent that acts as a photosensitive switch. For the researchers at LMU Munich, in collaboration with colleagues in Berkeley and [...]...

Anticipating Stressful Events Makes You Old

21 February 2012, 9:52 pm
The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk for the diseases of aging, according to a study by UCSF researchers. In a study of 50 women, about half of them caring for relatives with dementia, the psychologists found [...]...

Obscure fungus killing rare rattlesnakes

21 February 2012, 7:41 pm
A small population of rattlesnakes that already is in decline in southern Illinois faces a new and unexpected threat in the form of a fungus rarely seen in the wild, researchers report. The eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus), a candidate for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, suffers from habitat loss and environmental [...]...

Can Consuming Caffeine While Breastfeeding Harm Your Baby?

21 February 2012, 7:26 pm
Babies are not able to metabolize or excrete caffeine very well, so a breastfeeding mother’s consumption of caffeine may lead to caffeine accumulation and symptoms such as wakefulness and irritability, according to an interview with expert Ruth Lawrence, MD, published in Journal of Caffeine Research, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The interview [...]...

Chess Experts Help Researchers Understand How We See the World

21 February 2012, 3:02 pm
Just as expert chess players scrutinize a board to calculate their next moves, UT Dallas cognitive neuroscientists are studying the way these players’ brains work to better understand how visual information is processed. In three recent papers, Dr. James Bartlett, Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and doctoral student Amy Boggan of the School of Behavioral and Brain [...]...

Rare Earth element found far, far away

21 February 2012, 2:28 pm
Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium — byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, the very first stars emerged, creating additional chemical elements throughout the universe. Since then, giant stellar explosions, or supernovas, have given rise to carbon, oxygen, iron and [...]...

NASA Contract Modification For Engineering And Support Services

22 February 2012, 5:00 am
NASA has signed its final contract option with InfoPro Corp. in Huntsville to continue engineering technicians and trades support services for the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center....

NASA'S Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

22 February 2012, 5:00 am
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form....

NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar-Mass Black Hole

22 February 2012, 5:00 am
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole....

NASA Administrator Announces Senior Leadership Changes

21 February 2012, 5:00 am
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Tuesday changes to his senior leadership team. Associate Administrator Chris Scolese was named director of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Robert Lightfoot, director of the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will serve as acting associate administrator....

NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon

20 February 2012, 5:00 am
New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface....

New Jersey Education Consortium Hosts Live Chat with Space Station Astronauts

17 February 2012, 5:00 am
Students and educators from Sussex County, N.J., will gather at Newton High School on Wednesday, Feb. 22, to further their space studies by speaking live with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station....

NASA Chief Technologist to Visit Dayton's CRG Wednesday

17 February 2012, 5:00 am
NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will visit Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (CRG) in Dayton, Ohio on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m. EST...

NASA to Deliver Commercial Research Equipment to Station

16 February 2012, 5:00 am
NASA, Astrium Space Transportation and NanoRacks LLC are teaming up to expand the research capability of the International Space Station through delivery of a small commercial centrifuge facility that will conduct molecular and cellular investigations on plant and animal tissue....

Teachers Fly Experiments on NASA Reduced Gravity Flights

14 February 2012, 5:00 am
More than 70 teachers had an opportunity to experience what it feels like to float in space as they participated in the Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston last week....

NASA Awards Huntsville Operations Support Center Services Contract

14 February 2012, 5:00 am
NASA has selected COLSA Corp. of Huntsville, Ala., for its Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) contract....

A Look Inside Dawnâ��s Grand Asteroid Adventure

2 February 2012, 1:03 am
By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. The south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta, as imaged by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in September 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA | › Full image and caption [...]...

Slice of History: Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon

24 January 2012, 8:35 pm
By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon — Photograph Number P-10709B In November 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad landed on the moon less than 600 [...]...

Dawn Longs to be Closer to Asteroid Vesta

12 January 2012, 9:43 pm
By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image, one of the first obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows part of the rim of a fresh crater on the giant [...]...

Viewing Times and Tips for Saturday Morningâ��s Lunar Eclipse

9 December 2011, 8:20 pm
By Steve Edberg The last lunar eclipse until 2014 will grace the sky on Saturday, Dec. 10. Steve Edberg, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shares the best viewing times and tips. For more lunar eclipse resources and to join NASA/JPL’s “I’m There: Lunar Eclipse” event, visit http://1.usa.gov/uBfAI8. Keith Burns submitted this winning photo of the [...]...

Getting the Lowdown on Asteroid Vesta

5 December 2011, 6:59 pm
By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This 3-D video incorporates images from the framing camera instrument aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from July to August 2011. The images were obtained as Dawn approached Vesta and circled [...]...

Mission Control to Mars: Launching the Next Mars Rover

28 November 2011, 10:36 pm
By Rob Manning In the wee morning hours of Nov. 26, 2011, scientists and engineers gathered in the mission control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help launch the next Mars rover, Curiosity. The mission’s chief engineer, Rob Manning, shares the developing story from the control room as tensions and excitement for a mission eight [...]...

Slice of History: Advanced Ocean Technology Development Platform

9 November 2011, 6:33 pm
By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Advanced Ocean Technology Development Platform — Photograph Number P-23298B The Advanced Ocean Technology Development Platform (AOTDP) was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1970s by the [...]...

Asteroid Vesta, All in the Details

3 November 2011, 8:14 pm
By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on September 20, 2011. This image was taken through the camera’s clear filter. The distance to the surface of [...]...

Slice of History: Freeway Tunnel Simulator

6 October 2011, 11:09 pm
By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Freeway Tunnel Simulator — Photograph Number P-20673A In October 1978, this photo was taken of a freeway tunnel simulator, which was used to study the air quality in freeways [...]...

The Giant Asteroid, Up Close and Personal

29 September 2011, 11:14 pm
By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA › Full image and caption | [...]...

The Space We Love

14 February 2011, 8:00 am
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Black Holes: By the Numbers

3 February 2011, 8:00 am
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NEOWISE: A Solar System Safari

1 February 2011, 8:00 am
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The Change of Seasons: Views From Space

22 December 2010, 8:00 am
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WISE - Your Guide to the Infrared Sky

2 April 2010, 7:00 am
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Slide Show: SRTM's 'World Tour'

11 February 2010, 8:00 am
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Interactive: Take the Sea Level Quiz

22 October 2009, 7:00 am
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From the Lab to the Moon

21 July 2009, 7:00 am
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Five Years on Mars

29 January 2009, 8:00 am
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Earthquake Studies

29 July 2008, 7:00 am
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New Alzheimerâ��s drugs botch brainâ��s wiring

With gold, a tiny test for poison gas

To eat healthy when happy, focus on future

Military death sentences higher for minorities

New clues to how HIV avoids bodyâ��s attack

Quick test predicts if transplant will stick

Coastal aquifers hurt by use, not climate

Cells coax damaged nerves to reconnect

Flame retardant linked to autism risk

Telescope snaps gamma-ray bursts in orbit

Politics live blog: PMQs and NHS risk register debate

22 February 2012, 4:41 pm
• My PMQs verdict• Afternoon summary4.30pm: Here's an afternoon summary.• Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, has accused the government of refusing to publish the NHS risk register because it would demolish the case the health bill. Opening what has been a bad-tempered debate on a Labour motion calling for the register to be published, as the Information Commissioner's Office has said it should be published, Burnham said that regional risk registers which have been made public high...

Dr Liam Fox's deregulation remedy? A tonic we don't need

22 February 2012, 12:24 pm
As shadow health secretary Fox had some scary treatment for the NHS. His next patient is labour protections laws. We should be afraidWhenever I read a speech by Liam Fox I usually think how lucky I am never to have been a patient of the good doctor. Headache? Let's amputate a leg, shall we? Sore throat? Whoops, we seem to have severed an artery here. So sorry.His return to frontline politics on Wednesday, after what footballers would call a four-month suspension over the strange Adam Werrit...

MPs unite to give a powerful new voice for Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire

22 February 2012, 11:51 am
A new all-party Parliamentary group for the region has been formed. Andrew Percy, its co-chair and Conservative MP for Brigg and Goole, explains why and sets out its prioritiesWith the emergence of City Regions, Local Enterprise Partnerships, and the clear commitment by all major political parties to "localism", is now the right time to establish a new, regionally-based, cross-party group of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire MPs? The clear consensus is "Yes". The question of whether to join po...

London mayoral election hustings - live

21 February 2012, 4:02 pm
See all the debate between Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and Brian Paddick as they spelled out their plans ahead of May's elections5.02pm: To summarise, I'll take each candidate in turn.Brian PaddickPaddick played to his strength as a former Met officer and focused on tackling crime and making people feel safer, but it seemed to play well with an audience of older people. He promised to protect the Freedom Pass for older people.His one new announcement was that he would put in place a deputy m...

Jeremy Paxman: wrong to criticise Tony Blair over Irish potato famine

21 February 2012, 1:15 pm
Newsnight presenter misquotes and misinterprets landmark declaration by former prime minister on Irish potato famineJeremy Paxman believes Tony Blair is guilty of "moral vacuousness" for apologising for the Irish potato famine and for Britain's role in slavery.This is what the Newsnight presenter and author of Empire, What Ruling the World Did to the British has told the Radio Times:You should apologise for things that you have done, that you recognise that perhaps you shouldn't have done or reg...

Politics live blog: Tuesday 21 February

21 February 2012, 1:15 pm
• Rachel Reeves speech - summary• Lunchtime summary8.50am: The big story this morning is coming out of Brussels, where Eurozone finance ministers have agreed the latest bailout package for Greece. My colleague Graeme Wearden has all the details on his Eurozone debt crisis live blog. In London the government's main announcement this morning is coming from Nick Clegg, who is unveiling a work programme for what Clegg describes as "disengaged" 16 and 17-year-olds (ie, NEETS, people not in educat...

Rupert Murdoch hints at backing for Scottish independence

21 February 2012, 12:43 pm
Tweets by owner of Scottish Sun seem to imply Alex Salmond will have a big boost in his plans for referendum voteRupert Murdoch has used his Twitter feed to suggest he backs independence for Scotland, signalling that the Sun may too come out in favour of breaking up the UK.In a slightly gnomic eight word tweet late on Monday evening, the News Corporation owner said:This apparent endorsement for Alex Salmond's independence plans was welcomed by the first minister's office, but in somewhat cautiou...

Vince Cable and the Merkel-Borgen connection

21 February 2012, 12:19 pm
What wrangling in Germany tells us about coalition politicsHave you been following the drama over Germany's non-executive presidency? The one in which Christian Wulff was forced to resign over a "favours" scandal? What about the subsequent row in Angela Merkel's coalition over their choice of the "Stasi hunter" Joachim Gauck as his successor?Probably not, we're all busy. Though not as busy as Merkel, who must have cursed her bad luck and judgment – we'll come to that – as she tried to focus...

Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946?

21 February 2012, 11:50 am
How bad is the deficit really? As new figures show it's worsening, we bring you all the data going back to the 1940s• Get the dataWhat's happened to the deficit? Are things getting better? Britain's public finances posted their biggest monthly surplus in four years last month after a drop in local government borrowing and a rise in tax receipts hauled the country's debt back below the £1 trillion mark.The Office for National Statistics says the public sector made a net repayment excluding fi...

Politics live blog â�� Monday 20 February

20 February 2012, 5:33 pm
• Today's agenda• Number 10 lobby briefing - summary• Lunchtime summary• Afternoon summary8.40am: The health bill is back at the top of the news. David Cameron is hosting a health summit at Number 10 and, as the Guardian reports this morning, he has angered some in the health lobby by excluding organisations like the BMA and the Royal College of General Practitioners who are opposed to the bill. On the Today programme, after recovering from the shock of being introduced by Sarah Montague...

David Amess MP: Fishermen are losing out on their catch

22 February 2012, 8:43 am
David Amess MP urges government action to help fisherman and act on quotas that are "killing the historic UK fishing industry"....

MP calls for Hillsborough death inquest

22 February 2012, 8:00 am
Stephen Mosley MP calls on the government to grant a fresh inquest into the death of Hillsborough victim, Kevin Williams....

UK is cheating on air quality laws and misleading the European Commission

22 February 2012, 8:00 am
Clean Air in London says that it is "totally unacceptable" that the UK is cheating on air quality laws and misleading the European Commission....

Barry Gardiner MP: Olympics needs radical reform

21 February 2012, 9:00 am
Barry Gardiner MP calls for the relationship between national Olympic Associations, the International Olympic Association and host governments to be reformed....

MP calls for road safety measures

21 February 2012, 7:53 am
John Leech MP calls for a number of provisions to improve road safety in a bid to save lives, reduce pollution and inspire younger generations to be fitter and healthier....

Government policy on higher-rate taxpayers and child benefit

21 February 2012, 7:30 am
Christopher Chope MP calls for the government policy on higher-rate taxpayers and child benefit to be "abandoned"....

Reform of Dangerous Dogs Act a â��no-brainerâ��

17 February 2012, 3:08 pm
TheCommunication Workers’ Union (CWU) has welcomed Huw Irranca-Davies MP’s call for the government to crack down on irresponsible dog ownership....

Legally unacceptable pension changes

15 February 2012, 12:26 pm
The largest teachers' union has argued that the government's plans to change the teachers’ pension scheme are legally "unacceptable"....

'Best of village life in busy city'

15 February 2012, 10:09 am
The Woodland Trust is actively supporting the London Mayor's campaign to plant more trees and revamp parks in London, and is calling on Londoners to get involved in the valuable project....

â��Not possible to deflate your way to growthâ��

15 February 2012, 8:00 am
Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary has argued that, "Austerity means 2.67m are not working"....

The Times Loses It: Sense and nonsense about Tucson

17 January 2011, 2:01 pm
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WikiLeaks: Were I An Alien ...

8 December 2010, 8:10 am
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General Motors should have gone bankrupt

7 December 2010, 8:03 am
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PJ on Political Satire

1 December 2010, 2:04 am
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PJ's speech at IQÂ²

22 November 2010, 8:29 am
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I Think We Lost the Election

14 November 2010, 2:29 am
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Facts Meet Freedom: On the Air in Afghanistan

2 November 2010, 1:27 am
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Bloomberg grills PJ

27 October 2010, 7:34 am
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They Hate Our Guts and theyâ��re drunk on power

24 October 2010, 1:25 am
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New Book: Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards

21 September 2010, 5:38 pm
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Cherie Blair starts hacking case

22 February 2012, 6:05 pm
Cherie Blair has started legal proceedings over phone hacking, her solicitor confirms....

Awema: 'Ministers stonewalling'

22 February 2012, 5:56 pm
Opposition AMs have accuse the Welsh government of failing to answer questions about race-relations charity All Wales Ethnic Minority Association (Awema)....

Commons staging Mullin diary play

22 February 2012, 5:04 pm
A hit play based on the diaries of former Labour MP Chris Mullin is to be performed in Parliament....

Moore calls for early referendum

22 February 2012, 4:49 pm
The Scottish secretary sets out a timetable he said would allow an independence referendum to be held in September 2013....

VIDEO: Lib Dem MP: Health Bill is now 'less bad'

22 February 2012, 4:37 pm
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George said the coalition Health Bill was "less bad" but he was yet to be persuaded it should go through....

Tories get most party donations

22 February 2012, 4:30 pm
The Conservatives received £3.2m in party donations in the last three months of 2011, according to figures from the Electoral Commission....

Pilots 'falling asleep on duty'

22 February 2012, 4:17 pm
Many over-tired airline pilots are falling asleep on duty, putting passenger safety at risk, MPs hear....

VIDEO: Ten Minute Rule Motion

22 February 2012, 4:07 pm
A proposal to send individuals itemised annual statements detailing their NHS healthcare costs has been rejected by MPs....

NHS 'will be Cameron's poll tax'

22 February 2012, 3:14 pm
Labour leader Ed Miliband tells David Cameron he risks making NHS reform "his poll tax" - in noisy Commons clashes over the health bill....

AUDIO: 'Football can tackle homophobia'

22 February 2012, 3:09 pm
Jeremy Hunt MP told Radio 5 live that if football tackles homophobia, it will reach more people than through politics....

Eurozone: UK ready to back IMF bailouts

2 November 2011, 11:43 pm
Britain is standing by to give more money to the IMF so that it can, in turn, lend more money to Eurozone countries like Greece, Italy or Spain who are struggling to service their debts. The government now believes, I'm told, that there are only three ways out of the current crisis - one they hope for, one they fear and a third they are ready to accept. They are: 1. Eurozone leaders succeed in getting last week's deal back on track despite Greece's plan to use a referendum to secure a bett...

A new look

12 May 2011, 12:32 pm
Thank you for reading my blog. As of today it is moving to a new home, with a fresh format and that old cartoon gets replaced by a photo - which I'm not sure is wise for a bald man with bottle bottom specs but progress is progress. Visit my new page to see all of my reports, analysis and musings in one place - including video, audio and news stories. Oddly, though the first to blog at the BBC, I'm being a little slow to adapt to tweeting - at the moment I just tweet my blog posts but I ...

Happy anniversary

11 May 2011, 12:40 pm
There were touching messages today from one partner to another on their first anniversary: Nick: We don't like cutting but the Tories do. David: There's only one party you can trust on the NHS. Brings a warm glow to your heart, doesn't it?...

Who's saving the NHS from who?

9 May 2011, 11:40 am
As you listen to Liberal Democrats declare that they are riding to the rescue of the NHS I can't help recalling a story I heard a while ago. It relates to Nick Clegg's reaction to attending a service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS. As well as prayers and blessings the service on 2 July 2008 included a speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the reverential playing of a sound recording of a speech by the founder of the NHS, Labour's Aneurin Bevan. Clegg compla...

Be careful what you wish for

6 May 2011, 6:08 pm
To think that elections used to be boring. Predictable. Just like the general election held exactly a year ago - today produced results no-one predicted with consequences which are totally unpredictable. Many may have foreseen the drubbing Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats would receive but few foresaw its scale - losing not just to Labour in the Northern cities, not just to the SNP in Scotland but - irony of ironies - to their coalition partners the Conservatives in parts of the South. An...

Funny old game

6 May 2011, 3:09 pm
As we await the result of the referendum on changing our voting system I can't help noticing that proportional representation has delivered a stable, majority government in Scotland whilst good, old fashioned first past the post produced a hung parliament and a coalition in Westminster....

Whither the Coalition now?

6 May 2011, 9:09 am
It was inevitable after a night like that. Someone somewhere would call for Nick Clegg to resign. The defeated leader of Nottingham's Lib Dems, Gary Long, was the first to the microphone. If he got the backing of 74 local parties there would have to be a leadership contest. But where are they? And who support such an idea? And who would run against Clegg? What is striking so far is that those councillors who lost in Sheffield and Liverpool and Hull gave their leader and the Coalition their bac...

Elections - the agony and the ecstasy

6 May 2011, 7:16 am
Elections can bring relief, agony, joy and doubt. David Cameron must scarcely be able to believe his luck this morning. A year after failing to win the general election and having announced deep and painful spending cuts he will be deeply relieved that - so far at least - his party has barely received a scratch from the electorate. Losses may still follow but on nothing like the scale once feared. The reason is clear - it's his coalition partner who has absorbed all the pain. Nick Clegg will...

Will Bin Laden's death hasten withdrawal from Afghanistan?

3 May 2011, 12:15 pm
Further to my post yesterday I note the prime minister's words on the impact which the death of Bin Laden will have on the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan. "It's clearly a helpful development I don't necessarily think it will change any timetables but we should use it as an opportunity to say to the Taliban now is the moment to separate yourself from Al Qaeda to give up violence" More significantly he stressed the possibility of a political deal with the Taliban rather than a m...

Bin Laden's death

2 May 2011, 10:28 am
America is rejoicing. George Bush promised Bin Laden - dead or alive. President Obama has delivered that promise and, crucially, before America marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Others are better placed than me to analyse what this means for Al-Qaeda and for events in the Arab world. The politics of this news, though, seem pretty clear. Obama was elected to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For many Americans the loss of life there was justified only as a response to th...

Now for something completely different...

23 May 2011, 1:30 pm
This is my last blog in this format. I'm getting a new picture and a new biography, but the good news is that you still get me - here....

The rise of the Dinosaurs' Coalition

18 May 2011, 9:45 pm
There is a new coalition emerging in British politics. Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday. The grouping are buoyed by their success on AV, and united by a strong element of hating Liberal Democrats. Critics will no doubt call them the Dinosaurs' Coalition. ...

The Beast of Bolsover roars once more

18 May 2011, 9:07 pm
An amazing salvo from Dennis Skinner at Prime Minister's Questions today. It was vintage Skinner, of a kind we've not seen for 10 years or more. Many believe the Beast of Bolsover has mellowed in recent years, following his heart troubles and problems in his personal life. But not today. Dressed in red shirt and red tie, he thundered: "In recession-hit Britain, the billionaires have gone up by 20 - an increase of 37% - in this first year of Tory rule. Whilst in the real world, inflation's ...

Boundary changes boosting Labour membership

18 May 2011, 8:21 pm
Ed Miliband often boasts of how tens of thousands of people have joined the Labour Party since the election - all evidence of his "new generation", he says. I must admit I have always been rather sceptical about the figures, but perhaps they're true. One Labour MP told me tonight that the prospect of serious battles with Westminster colleagues over the reduced number of seats, has prompted the more organised and far-sighted to embark on local membership drives to help their own selection. I c...

Essex police confident of quick progress on Huhne

18 May 2011, 6:56 pm
Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has contacted Essex Police offering to help them with their inquiry into allegations he tried to evade punishment for speeding, his spokeswoman said tonight. Earlier Essex police announced that they are starting to interview key individuals relating to the claims that Mr Huhne asked his then wife Vicky Pryce to accept penalty points for speeding on his behalf in 2003 - claims Mr Huhne denies. That presumably also includes Mr Huhne's ex-wife Vicky Pryce, and maybe t...

Was Huhne restricted by M11 road works?

18 May 2011, 4:57 pm
Some of the press speculation about Chris Huhne in recent days has focused on whether he was the victim of a 30 mile an hour speed restriction on the M11 which had been imposed because of road works. On 15 February 2003 the Daily Telegraph reported that extensive road works would cause big delays on the motorway for the next two months - ie. covering the crucial date in the Huhne case, 12 March 2003. In late February resurfacing work was due to start between junction 7 (Harlow), and junction 6...

Black September for MPs as boundaries scramble begins

18 May 2011, 3:22 pm
Expect MPs to be very nervous this September. That's when the Boundary Commissions are going to make their provisional recommendations for the new, larger, Parliamentary constituencies. The number of seats in the Commons is being cut from 650 to 600, and the size of seats being made more equal, which will require new boundaries to almost every constituency in Britain. I have learnt that at a meeting a few days ago, representatives of the three main parties were told that the proposed new W...

Was Nick Clegg on Flight 7775 with Chris Huhne?

18 May 2011, 12:16 pm
UPDATE AT 1652BST: A spokesman for Nick Clegg has just told me that he "would not have been on the plane" - Ryanair flight 7775 on 12 March 2003. The spokesman tells me that during the weeks that the European Parliament sat in Strasbourg rather than Brussels, Mr Clegg's routine was to travel back to Brussels where the Clegg family had a home, and then, if necessary, fly to London. ENTRY FROM 1216BST: Was Nick Clegg on Ryanair flight 7775 from Strasbourg to Stansted on the evening of 12 Mar...

Twins reversed at Daily Telegraph

17 May 2011, 4:21 pm
Yesterday the Daily Telegraph sports section ran an article giving ratings for every Manchester United player this season. For the two Brazilian full-backs, Rafael and Fabio - who are identical twins - the Telegraph merely reversed the photo of one of them. Mind you, the pair do look so alike that I, a keen United follower, couldn't tell you which one it was. ...

On the Huhne speeding mystery

16 May 2011, 2:38 pm
Two hours ago Newsnight discovered that Vicky Pryce - Chris Huhne's now estranged wife - was due to address a seminar at the LSE on the evening of 12 March 2003. That's the date in contention in the Chris Huhne speeding mystery. And the LSE has just confirmed to me that Vicky Pryce did actually attend the event - a City Alumni seminar, starting at 6.30pm. The organiser of the event, Nat Holtham, confirmed to me that Vicky Pryce spoke that evening, and that the event would have lasted betwee...

Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission

22 February 2012, 6:18 pm
(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists. The barrages marked an intensification of a nearly three-week offensive to crush resistance in Homs, one of the focal points of a nationwide uprising against Assad's 11-year rule, and prompted further international condemnation. ......

Iran Internet disruption points to government control

22 February 2012, 6:17 pm
DUBAI (Reuters) - Millions of Iranians have experienced disruption to email and Internet access, raising fears Iran's leaders have been testing new ways to step up control of web traffic ahead of a parliamentary election. The disruption has been to the most common form of secure connections since Monday, including all encrypted websites outside Iran that depend on the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which display addresses beginning with "https. ......

Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election

22 February 2012, 5:58 pm
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's passionate supporters. Though the 57-year-old former soldier looked stoic and played down the dangers of his latest condition, the announcement inevitably raises questions over his ability to stand for the October 7 presidential vote - or rule beyond it. Chavez, who has dominated Venezuela since...

'Crush racism' in football: PM

22 February 2012, 2:16 pm
Swift action is required to "crush" any return of racism to football before it impacts on wider society, Prime Minister David Cameron has said....

Cameron holds UK football racism talks

22 February 2012, 1:44 pm
British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet with football chiefs and anti-racism campaigners later Wednesday to address the recent spate of racist incidents that have blighted the national game....

PM urges 'thorough' fraud probe

22 February 2012, 1:25 pm
David Cameron has urged police to carry out a "thorough" probe into a company running the Government's flagship scheme to cut unemployment....

Cameron gets involved in fighting discrimination

22 February 2012, 10:52 am
LONDON (Reuters) - The battle against discrimination in football moves to Downing Street on Wednesday when Prime Minister David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, the sports minister, meet senior football officials and representatives from anti-discrimination groups. The idea of the roundtable, according to Downing Street, is to identify what more can be done to make soccer more inclusive with the Government pledging its commitment to working with the football community as a whole to address and tackle th...

MPs Want 'Presumed Dead' Law For The Missing

22 February 2012, 10:45 am
A single certificate declaring someone "presumed dead" should be brought in to help families resolve all the affairs of a missing person, a report by MPs recommends....

Occupy faces eviction from St Pauls after all appeals rejected

22 February 2012, 10:19 am
Occupy protesters camped in St Paul's face eviction from the area after all their appeals were rejected by the courts....

Fox returns to demand tax cuts

22 February 2012, 10:00 am
Momentum towards tax cuts is continuing to accelerate, as Liam Fox and the CBI add their weight to calls to help businesses foster Britain's economic recovery....

iPosture â�� Donâ��t be a Slouch

22 February 2012, 2:52 pm
I guess it would be no secret that I am a bit of a sloucher, after all, I am in front of a computer for most of the day, but I think it all started because when I was a young kid, I was taller than all the boys, whatever the case, poor posture isn’t attractive, [...]...

iPhone Weight Loss Tracking Scale

22 February 2012, 1:30 pm
“There’s an app for that…” has proved to be quite the marketing mantra for folks who are huge fans of the iPhone (and of course, the iPod). For those who are looking out for different methods of maintaining their weight (or keeping track of their weight loss regime’s effectiveness), here is the $69.95 iPhone Weight [...]...

CD Direct digitizes music to MP3 format

22 February 2012, 1:00 pm
I don’t know about you, but purchasing an audio track in the MP3 format still does not beat the feeling of holding a physical CD in hand, be it an album or a single. After all, we humans are physical creatures, so to live in a physical world with representations in the form of objects [...]...

Pyle Snorkeling Master Watch

22 February 2012, 12:30 pm
If you love heading underwater for some Nemo-watching sessions, then you would definitely do well to own a timepiece that is able to withstand the rigors of underwater life. After all, it can be all too easy to lose yourself when you are underwater, considering how everything beneath the sea level seems so surreal. Here [...]...

ProAktivo Sports Tracker

22 February 2012, 12:00 pm
The battle of the bulge is something many of us make attempts to fight, with varying levels of success, of course. There are many tools in the market to help one achieve one’s fitness goals, but the most important one is free and still remains the essential ingredient in all weight loss programs – determination [...]...

the Ramos Alarm Clock â�� When Oversleeping is simply NOT an Option.

21 February 2012, 5:17 pm
I’m ashamed to admit it, but I’m a serial “alarm setter”. What this means is that if I have an important event, like catching a plane or a court appearance (never been to court, and I wasn’t speeding anyway) I not only set my regular alarm clock, but one or two backup alarms, just in [...]...

Apple factories hid child workers, employees claim

22 February 2012, 5:41 pm
The factory that produces the iPhone and iPad has been accused of hiding child workers from labour inspectors....

Pinterest guide: What it is, how to start and who to follow

22 February 2012, 5:33 pm
Katie Collins presents her guide to Pinterest -- and explains why it's going to be the next big social networking sensation in the UK....

Nearly 1 million UK homes to need 4G TV filters

22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Almost a million UK homes will need special filters for their tellies to cope with 4G interference....

Samsung Series 9 skinny laptop on sale Saturday

22 February 2012, 2:27 pm
Samsung's new Series 9 ultrabook will be on sale from Saturday, 25 February. Read up on it here....

Your private messages revealed to government in new plans

22 February 2012, 2:09 pm
Broadband providers and phone networks are to reveal to authorities your every phone call, text message, email and private social network message....

Windows 8 will have UK English for proper spellings

22 February 2012, 1:08 pm
The next generation of Windows will come with UK English as standard, so we can have proper spellings rather than Americanisms....

Samsung Galaxy phones and Tabs to stream Blockbuster movies

22 February 2012, 12:31 pm
Samsung is taking on Netflix, Spotify and iTunes with streaming on your Samsung phone, tablet or TV -- and all thanks to Blockbuster....

Nokia teases new camera phone with snowy video

22 February 2012, 12:15 pm
Nokia's teased a new camera phone, with a snowy video inviting us to 'get ready to capture a pure view'....

Gallery: Sony PS Vita on sale now in the UK

22 February 2012, 12:10 pm
The PS Vita is now on sale in the UK, and we've got some shots from the midnight launch at Game on Oxford Street....

BBM, iMessage and others lost mobile networks Â£8.8bn

22 February 2012, 10:57 am
Mobile network operators have lost an estimated £8.8bn thanks to free messaging apps....

Your private messages revealed to government in new plans

22 February 2012, 2:09 pm
Broadband providers and phone networks are to reveal to authorities your every phone call, text message, email and private social network message....

Gallery: Sony PS Vita on sale now in the UK

22 February 2012, 12:10 pm
The PS Vita is now on sale in the UK, and we've got some shots from the midnight launch at Game on Oxford Street....

Google augmented reality Android glasses on sale this year

22 February 2012, 10:34 am
Google's Terminator-style augmented reality glasses could go on sale this year, reports suggest....

Heartbeats to replace passwords for gadget security?

21 February 2012, 5:08 pm
Your brain can't cope with all the passwords spilling out of your head, but your heart can, as heartbeat recognition becomes a reality....

PS Vita cheapest deal is Â£197 at Asda

21 February 2012, 1:15 pm
The PS Vita arrives tomorrow, and you can get your hands on one for just £197 if you head over to Asda....

PS Vita, iPod touch and Nintendo 3DS compared in video

21 February 2012, 11:41 am
We compare the iPod touch, Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita in this video comparison....

Underground explorer online community celebrated in video

20 February 2012, 4:25 pm
We discover Churchill's secret Second World War bunker with underground explorers Subterranea Britannica in this video....

The Simpsons free iPhone and iPad game out soon

20 February 2012, 1:22 pm
Electronic Arts is set to launch an official Simpsons game for free for Apple devices, and Android soon after. Expect it to be huge....

Angry Birds Space blasts off on 22 March

20 February 2012, 1:01 pm
There's a new version of Angry Birds coming next month, and it promises to be out of this world....

Call of Duty coming to PS Vita this autumn

20 February 2012, 12:36 pm
War-sim Call of Duty will be landing on Sony's PlayStation Vita console in the autumn....

Militaryâ��s Secret X-37B Robotic Space Shuttle Returns to Earth

5 December 2010, 8:10 pm
Originally a NASA project, the X-37B became the military's secret unmanned space shuttle in 2004. When the X-37B launched last April, no one knew what was really going on. Foreign media saw the launch as a signal of space militarization. Officials say the spacecraft is undergoing testing....

Robot Box is Facebook for your Robots. Share your robots and make friends.

28 November 2010, 9:28 pm
Robot Box is a community oriented site where users share the robots they have created. Local robotics groups, user created robot showcases, and part reviews are popular features of the site. Robot Box allows you to create relationships with other users, almost like a supped’ up Facebook for your robot creations!...

Are you looking for a Robotics Job? Get Robotics Jobs Will Help You Get Hired.

28 November 2010, 8:41 pm
Get Robotics Jobs is a great resource for robotics professionals or hiring managers to seek or fill jobs in the robotics industry. Their listings are easy to use and don’t require you to login like other job search sites. One click allows a job hunter to quickly sort listings by country, state, and keyword. Get Robotics Jobs’ listings are up to date and plentiful. This site is an excellent tool for anyone looking for employment in the field of robotics....

Rat Brain Controls Small Cyborg Robot! With Video!

15 November 2010, 9:08 am
Robot is controlled entirely by lab grown rat brain cells. The team grows neurons on an electrode array, which via wireless (bluetooth) communication receives signals from the robot's ultrasonic sensors....

Like us on Facebook! Robotics Blog has a Facebook page!

14 November 2010, 12:31 am
Check us out on Facebook! No one likes us yet … You can be the first!...

Robotic Deer Helps Officers Thwart Illegal Hunting!

13 November 2010, 7:51 pm
This robotic deer helps protect wildlife and citizens from illegal hunting. The remote controlled deer has a moving head and tail. Officers bust hunters shooting from their cars shortly after the shooters are tricked by this life-like animatronic deer....

Electroadhesive Gripper Gives Robots Sticky Hands

7 November 2010, 6:24 pm
Using electricity in a robot hand to pick up objects! This new technology is called electroadhesive gripping, and it allows robots to grip a wide array of objects and surfaces. Traditionally, robots have had a hard time gripping objects because there are few good universal grippers. Most objects are very different from each other, with different textures, sizes, and physical properties. Using electroadhesion, grippers may be designed to pick up many more objects than previous robot grippers coul...

Surgical Robots With Tactile Force Feedback Allow Surgeons to Feel Their Cuts.

16 October 2010, 4:27 pm
Surgical robot 'Sofie' has force feedback to allow surgeons to feel their cuts. An important advancement for medical science and robotic surgery....

Google Car Drives by Itself In the City, humanless for 1000 Miles.

15 October 2010, 1:59 am
Google's autonomous car, which is a highly modified Toyota Prius, has logged over 1000 miles of humanless driving!...

Segway RMP 200 Bots Used To Train Snipers as Moving Targets.

10 April 2010, 1:31 am
Check out this video of modified Segway bots being used to simulate human targets in a live fire sniper training exercise. The bots are programmed to react much like real humans would. After a target is hit the bots are programmed to scatter....

Domain Name SocialMedia.cc at Auction Now â�� â�¬100 Euro

9 February 2012, 9:14 am
The two-word, keyword domain SocialMedia.cc (KW = Social Media) is being auctioned off at Sedo, and as of the posting of this blog only one day remains until the auction ends. As is stands now, there has only been a single bid, and it was for €100 (Euro). I admit this is a bit puzzling [...]...

ICANN Should Heed FTCâ��s Warning Over Overhaul of Domain Name System

7 January 2012, 3:00 am
ICANN should heed the FTC's warnings about the potential dangers of the proposed domain name system and ultimately decide against the proposed free-for-all....

Premium Domain Name BuyAmmoOnline.com to Be Auctioned On Ebay â�� Bidding Starts at $800!

9 November 2011, 1:00 am
Domain industry professionals, firearms dealers and sporting goods retailers have a rare opportunity this week to secure the rights to premium domain name BuyAmmoOnline.com for a fraction of its appraised value....

Beware of 301 Scams When Buying Developed Websites

23 October 2011, 3:15 am
If you decide to buy a developed website, it pays to be very wary sellers who use 301 redirect scams to artificially inflate their site’s toolbar pagerank in hopes the buyer won’t know the difference between an established site and a worthless site that appears to have pagerank. When Buying Developed Websites, How Can I [...]...

Miami PD, FBI and Crimestoppers Turn Blind Eye to Identity Theft, Credit Card Fraud

17 August 2011, 8:55 am
I am extremely disappointed that I find myself having to write this post today. The reason is because I’ve experienced a series of events at work over the course of the past week and a half that have uncovered a deeply disconcerting problem with the strategy and approach both federal and local (Miami, to be [...]...

Panax Ginseng Domain Name (panaxginseng.net) Has Sold

11 June 2011, 2:37 am
I am please to announce on this the evening of the tenth of June, 2011, that the domain name PanaxGinseng.net has been sold in a private transaction. The two-word, keyword-rich, high-quality sub-premium domain name contains the exact term “panax ginseng”. Panax Ginseng is an herb (a root to be specific) that is commonly used in [...]...

Premium Domain Names Defined

15 April 2011, 6:35 pm
I recently came across a new comment on an older post in which the commenter requested that I provide a working definition of what exactly constitutes a premium domain name. I wrote a post about this very topic some time ago, but re-reading it today, there is very little substantively speaking that I would change [...]...

170 Domainers Sick Following DOMAINfest Global Conference

15 February 2011, 11:12 am
As many as 170 people became ill in the days following the DOMAINFest Global Conference, which was held in Santa Monica, California from Feb. 1-3. This according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which is investigating the mysterious illnesses. The conference wound up in grand fashion, culminating in a grandiose party/fundraiser at [...]...

The Death of Mixx.com

13 February 2011, 12:31 pm
I recently came upon a post from Amplify asking for readers takes on what was the biggest social media disappointment from the year 2010. I didn’t have to think twice about this one, as this past year was none-too-kind to my long-time favorite social media site and community. I am referring of course to the [...]...

Domain Name Appraisals and Domain Parking

25 January 2011, 10:08 pm
Domain Appraisals Domain Appraisals are primarily selling tools to help market the domains to the end consumer, as well as to help companies like NameMedia (owner of BuyDomains) low-ball domain sellers. They aren’t likely to impress anyone with experience or success within the industry. For the price of the appraisal, one could register several new [...]...

Godaddy Domain Auction â�� My Selection Of PageRank Domains 91

22 February 2012, 2:36 pm
The following 24 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...

127 Expired Domains

22 February 2012, 2:29 pm
The following 127 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. agencyhive.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol freehandgraphs.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol swinefarm.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol languagemistakes.com [...]...

Godaddy Domain Auction â�� My Selection Of PageRank Domains 90

21 February 2012, 3:03 pm
The following 37 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...

108 Expired Domains

21 February 2012, 2:57 pm
The following 108 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. codepursuits.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol eskimostyles.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol fabulousarkansas.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol campusnets.com [...]...

Godaddy Domain Auction â�� My Selection Of PageRank Domains 89

20 February 2012, 11:10 am
The following 36 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...

111 Expired Domains

20 February 2012, 11:04 am
The following 111 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. germfreehouse.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol craphosting.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol dearsurgery.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol bestblinks.com [...]...

Godaddy Domain Auction â�� My Selection Of PageRank Domains 88

17 February 2012, 11:06 am
The following 51 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...

107 Expired Domains

17 February 2012, 11:02 am
The following 107 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. onlyspoons.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol templesluts.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol moderncricket.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol cupcakezombies.com [...]...

Godaddy Domain Auction â�� My Selection Of PageRank Domains 87

16 February 2012, 12:19 pm
The following 28 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...

137 Expired Domains

16 February 2012, 12:16 pm
The following 137 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. findenrichment.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol instructivesurgery.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol agreedeals.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol corporateenforcement.com [...]...

Domain Monster Review â�� DomainMonster.com

7 February 2012, 8:38 pm
Since having my issues with 1&1 Internet a little over 12 months ago, I transferred all of my .co.uk domain names over to Domain Monster after I received a few recommendations from friends that their service was very good. As a result of the large amount of responses to my post about the service I [...]Post from: Domain NamesDomain Monster Review – DomainMonster.com...

The SEO effect of 1&1 A Year On

24 January 2012, 11:33 am
It has been a year since I had my issues with 1&1 Internet and decided to express my dissatisfaction at their service publicly and what I have learned from this saga is that “joe public” also like to get involved when they feel that they have been treated in an unfair manner or experienced poor [...]Post from: Domain NamesThe SEO effect of 1&1 A Year On...

How to Choose a Good Business Domain Name

6 January 2012, 11:01 am
Because there are so many domain name providers, we can get let our domain name management slip into a messy situation. This article looks at some of the main issues related to choosing your business domain name. Securing your web identity is an important issue for any business. If you do not actually have the [...]Post from: Domain NamesHow to Choose a Good Business Domain Name...

Online Marketing and SEO in 2012

2 January 2012, 11:03 pm
I have been posting on 3ac.co.uk now for three years and I am disappointed with myself that I have been silent for the last couple of months and to be honest I am annoyed about it. I don’t like having genuine gaps in my archive of posts, but let’s not dwell on the past as [...]Post from: Domain NamesOnline Marketing and SEO in 2012...

Domain names, SEO and SAScon

30 October 2011, 9:49 pm
So I haven’t written a post for a while, and looking the back over the last couple of months I am ashamed to say I have neglected my blog, but not having missed a month since January 2009 I could not let October be the same…Good job the clocks went back today, it’s given me [...]Post from: Domain NamesDomain names, SEO and SAScon...

Why FR domain registry Afnic has a long road ahead

18 July 2011, 12:10 pm
I am just back from a two-week in Southern France (Provinces of Langdoc Roussillon and Cote d’Ázur). Whereas I like France, I was surprised by the sheer number of local businesses promoting themselves using generic top level domain names (gTLDs) such as .com, .net and .info rather than the FR domain extension. For your information: [ Read More ]...

Roboform v6 Toolbar does not Work on Mozilla Firefox 4 and Chrome 10

22 June 2011, 12:30 pm
Today I would like to share with you my frustration with my password manager: Roboform v6/ Roboform Toolbar. Although I don’t have the time, I am going to describe the problem for everyone to judge for themselves. Background I have been using a copy of Roboform Desktop v6 that I purchased back in 2007. But [ Read More ]...

ICANN approves New gTLDs Program

21 June 2011, 12:11 am
As i predicted in post from last month, ICANN just voted to approve the new gTLDs program during a meeting in Singapore. What this means is that i can now apply for .dnsblogs as a TLD!! Of course i am not going to apply for it for many reasons. First blog.dnsblogs doesn’t make any symantic [ Read More ]...

Number of Available Domain Names to Skyrocket: A take on ICANNâ��s New gTLD Program

31 May 2011, 12:54 pm
In my last post I discussed about how to best work towards attaining the right mix of money sites using management consultant’s BCG concept. Well this month we are dealing with a controversial ICANN policy that’s about to introduce new costs to your business. Internet on the brink of massive address explosion The landscape for [ Read More ]...

Borderlands 2 Trailer Reveals New Classes

22 February 2012, 1:42 pm
Combining fast-paced first-person shooting with a Diablo-like loot system and the deep character customization of a role-playing game, Gearbox's Borderlands was a surprisingly sophisticated modernization of Doom-era kill-everything-you-see mayhem, and one of 2009's most memorable titles. It got even......

The Emotional Connections of BioShock

22 February 2012, 1:34 am
Warning: This story may contain nuts, does contain spoilers......

Persona 4 Arena Confirmed for North American Launch

21 February 2012, 10:20 pm
Today, publisher Atlus announced plans to bring Persona 4 Arena to the United States. Previously titled Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, this 2D fighter was teased last week by Atlus. Persona 4 Arena features characters from both Persona 3 and Persona 4 -- popular Japanese role-playing games with an eccentric sense of style and even wilder narrative themes......

Binary Domain Review

21 February 2012, 10:00 pm
If you're tired of killing aliens, zombies and/or Russian terrorists, then Binary Domain just might be for you. In SEGA's futuristic squad shooter you won't actually fire a shot at a single living thing, just waves upon waves of mechanical maniacs hell-bent on instigating the extinction of you and y......

Modern Warfare 3's Overwatch Map Now Available

21 February 2012, 7:54 pm
UPDATE: Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has revealed via his twitter account that 400 new ranks and five prestige levels will be added to the PS3 version of the game via the new patch dropping on February 28......

Young Justice: Legacy Announced

21 February 2012, 5:13 pm
Young Justice -- a cartoon series following the exploits of teenage DC Comics superheroes such as Superboy, Robin and Kid Flash -- has been burning up Cartoon Network for a while, and now, it's getting a video game. Young Justice: Legacy will be available in "early 2013" for the PlayStation 3, Xbox ......

Spec Ops: The Line Comes Out in June

21 February 2012, 4:50 pm
This morning 2K Games announced that Spec Ops: The Line comes to stores in North America on June 26th and internationally on June 29th......

Assassin's Creed Revelations Lost Archive DLC Coming

21 February 2012, 4:50 pm
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) has confirmed that new Assassin's Creed Revelations DLC will hit the Xbox Live Marketplace next week......

The Future of Entertainment on Xbox

21 February 2012, 3:59 pm
On the current Xbox 360 Dashboard, "games" is the fourth tab to the right. It's not quite hidden, but it's buried in the middle of everything else. At this point in the console's life, Microsoft isn't concerned with games as much as broader entertainment. Rightfully so: More of us are using Xbox Liv......

Syndicate Review

21 February 2012, 8:01 am
Recreating a classic game in a new genre runs an overwhelming risk of failure. Not only must the product satiate fans of the original experience, the new game also needs to stand on its own with successful design choices and innovation. Oftentimes the redo reflects the exact standards and formulas o......

Preview: War of the Worlds Looks, Sounds Great

21 October 2011, 4:00 pm
The War of the Worlds (X360)We take a look at the upcoming side-scrolling adventure based on a literary classic....

Final Fantasy XIII2 Review (Xbox 360)

21 February 2012, 2:38 am
Does XIII2 return the Final Fantasy brand back to better times? Find out inside!...

NeverDead Review (Xbox 360)

18 February 2012, 6:45 am
NeverDead probably should have never come out.....

Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning Review (Xbox 360)

7 February 2012, 1:07 pm
A sweeping epic of a tale where does it land on our tenpoint scale?...

Soul Calibur V Review (Xbox 360)

6 February 2012, 1:30 am
Does your soul burn?...

Choplifter HD Review (Xbox 360)

16 January 2012, 6:20 pm
Does this 2.5D twin stick shooter reach great heights or stall on the landing pad?...

NFL Blitz Review (Xbox 360)

11 January 2012, 11:58 pm
NFL Blitz is EA Sports' answer to the constant demand of a return for the longloved arcade football series. Is it a triumphant return for the famed series?...

Marvel Pinball Vengeance And Virtue (Pinball FX 2) Review (Xbox 360)

5 January 2012, 3:03 am
An expansion set for Marvel Pinball, Marvel Pinball Vengeance and Virtue offers a series of brand new tables centered around wellknown Marvel characters....

Trine 2 Review (Xbox 360)

4 January 2012, 4:41 am
Trine 2 worth your Microsoft Points, or no?...

Need for Speed The Run Review (Xbox 360)

23 December 2011, 2:55 am
Find out why you should run away from this one. Plain and simple this game isnt very good....

Gears of War 3 RAAM's Shadow Review (Xbox 360)

20 December 2011, 11:35 pm
RAAM's Shadow is worth the $15 investment. Find out why it doesn't live in the shadow of the main game....

Vicar and teacher murder charges

22 February 2012, 6:16 pm
A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire....

VIDEO: Conroy's wife 'feared he was dead'

22 February 2012, 6:07 pm
The wife of a British photographer working in Homs has said that she believed he had been killed when she heard news that two western journalists had died in the city....

Cherie Blair starts hacking case

22 February 2012, 6:05 pm
Cherie Blair has started legal proceedings over phone hacking, her solicitor confirms....

Bank members voted for Â£75bn QE

22 February 2012, 5:49 pm
Minutes show two of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee wanted more money pumped into the economy, sending sterling down on the currency markets....

Olympics security test is staged

22 February 2012, 5:35 pm
A major exercise testing security and emergency services in the event of a terror attack during the Olympic and Paralympic Games is held in London....

St Paul's camp appeal bid refused

22 February 2012, 5:25 pm
A legal challenge by Occupy protesters to keep a camp outside St Paul's Cathedral is thrown out by the Court of Appeal....

VIDEO: 'Occupy will make a difference"

22 February 2012, 5:17 pm
Protesters have been refused permission to appeal against orders to evict their camp outside St Paul's Cathedral....

Nine cleared of UDA man's murder

22 February 2012, 5:16 pm
Nine men involved in the UVF supergrass trial in Belfast are acquitted of the murder of UDA leader Tommy English....

Tributes to reporter Marie Colvin

22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Tributes pour in for Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria....

Baby P duo made 'serious errors'

22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Two of Baby Peter's social workers committed a "serious error of judgement" during an incident which saw him "disappear" for 12 days, a tribunal hears....

Vicar and teacher murder charges

22 February 2012, 6:16 pm
A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire....

Strauss-Kahn released by police

22 February 2012, 6:11 pm
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring....

Western journalists die in Homs

22 February 2012, 5:48 pm
American Marie Colvin of the UK's Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik are among 60 people killed as Syria intensifies its clampdown on protests....

Greek MPs consider bailout laws

22 February 2012, 5:38 pm
Protests take place outside parliament in Greece, as MPs consider emergency laws after a 130bn-euro bailout deal....

Argentina train crash 'kills 49'

22 February 2012, 5:37 pm
A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say....

Obama seeks US corporate tax cut

22 February 2012, 5:36 pm
US President Barack Obama proposes a cut in corporate tax and an end to tax loopholes, as part of his election-year strategy on the economy....

Tributes to reporter Marie Colvin

22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Tributes pour in for Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria....

Peugeot boosted by alliance talks

22 February 2012, 5:03 pm
Peugeot shares jump 12% after the carmaker confirms it is in talks about possible "co-operations and alliances"....

Brit ratings 'biggest since 2005'

22 February 2012, 5:02 pm
The average audience to have watched the Brits ceremony on ITV1 and catch-up channel ITV1+1 comes in at 6.2 million - the event's highest audience since 2005....

Verdict on Mubarak set for 2 June

22 February 2012, 5:02 pm
A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June....

Man quizzed over women's murders

22 February 2012, 6:16 pm
A man is being questioned on suspicion of the murder of two elderly women who were found dead in their homes....

Adele turns tables on TV execs with finger gesture

22 February 2012, 6:03 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Adele had the tabloid press up in arms on Wednesday and TV executives running for cover over a middle finger gesture after her moment in the sun at British pop's biggest awards was cut short for programming reasons. The 23-year-old was midway through an acceptance speech at the packed O2 Arena in her native London after picking up the big prize -- best British album for her chart-conquering "21". But because the show was running late, and being broadcast live on ITV, pr...

Reporter 'wanted to finish story'

22 February 2012, 5:45 pm
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed after defying an order to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs because she wanted to finish "one more story", her mother has said....

Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'

22 February 2012, 5:43 pm
A teenager was repeatedly raped by members of a gang who used alcohol and threats of violence to force her to comply with their demands, a court has heard....

Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim

22 February 2012, 5:43 pm
Cherie Blair has lodged a claim over hacking of her phone, her lawyers said....

Loner jailed for rape and murder

22 February 2012, 5:25 pm
A cocaine-addicted former nightclub bouncer has been jailed for at least 35 years for the rape and murder of heavily pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender....

Britain can crush racism in sport, Cameron says

22 February 2012, 5:23 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to act swiftly to crush any return of racism in football, after several high-profile cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. Cameron said Britain should be proud of the achievements of the campaign to rid the sport of racism over the past two decades, adding that other countries had failed to take similar action. "But we have some problems still today," Cameron said at the opening of an anti-discrimination summit with former players and football of...

'Aggressive' charity collectors banned from town centre

22 February 2012, 5:19 pm
A Lancashire town has banned charity collectors who employ 'aggressive tactics' towards shoppers....

'Exceptionally' mild weather on way

22 February 2012, 5:18 pm
Thursday is expected to be "exceptionally" mild, with temperatures up to 10 degrees Celsius above average for the time of year, forecasters said....

Corden 'upset' at Adele speech halt

22 February 2012, 5:13 pm
Brit Awards host James Corden has revealed he held out as long as possible before cutting short big winner Adele's crowning moment - and said he had actually been told to move in after she had said "thank you"....

On The Road With...: The Chief Beefeater

22 February 2012, 4:44 pm
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HARDtalk: George Papandreou - Prime Minister of Greece, 2009-2011

22 February 2012, 11:47 am
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World Business Report: 22/02/2012

22 February 2012, 8:10 am
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World News Today: 21/02/2012

21 February 2012, 11:29 pm
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World Business Report: 21/02/2012

21 February 2012, 8:12 am
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Dateline London: 18/02/2012

20 February 2012, 2:23 pm
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World Business Report: 20/02/2012

20 February 2012, 10:33 am
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HARDtalk: Fawzia Koofi

20 February 2012, 10:29 am
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Reporters: 19/02/2012

20 February 2012, 10:27 am
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Click: 18/02/2012

20 February 2012, 10:27 am
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Love Letter to New York: Classic LIFE Photos

21 February 2012, 1:40 pm
The monuments and the museums, the pulsing crowds on Fifth Avenue, opera at the Met and stickball in Spanish Harlem, sardines on the subway and the romantic urban vistas of Central Park: Over the years LIFE’s photographers explored every corner [...]...

On the Stump: Classic Photos From the Campaign Trail

21 February 2012, 1:10 pm
In the midst of the strangest primary season in memory, LIFE looks at candidates — the revered, the reviled and the long-forgotten — on the campaign trail, and pays fond tribute to the perpetual carnival that is American politics....

Inside Hitlerâ��s Bunker: Unpublished Photos

21 February 2012, 1:00 pm
Shortly before Berlin fell in the spring of '45, marking the end of WWII in Europe, LIFE photographer William Vandivert made his way to the German capital -- and to the ruined bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun spent their last, desperate hours....

Mardi Gras in 1938: Unpublished Photos

20 February 2012, 5:57 pm
In 1938, LIFE sent photographer William Vandivert to New Orleans to cover the debauchery, whimsy and unalloyed fun of Mardi Gras. Seven decades later, LIFE.com presents unpublished pictures from the Big Easy....

LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels

15 February 2012, 4:14 pm
From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear and loathe gangsters’ appetite for violence; we envy and covet their freedom. In early 1965, [...]...

LIFE on Both Sides of the Camera: Alfred Eisenstaedtâ��s Surprising Self-Portraits

15 February 2012, 1:00 am
Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographic vision wasn't limited to the intimate pictures he made of the 20th century's most famous faces. Here, a celebration of the great photographer's unexpected and singularly charming self-portraits....

Eve Arnold: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

14 February 2012, 1:30 pm
On the anniversary of Malcolm X's 1965 assassination, LIFE.com presents Eve Arnold's photographs of the intensely charismatic street thug-turned-devout Muslim and activist, in public and in private....

Steve McQueen: Unpublished Photos

14 February 2012, 12:28 pm
In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the [...]...

Miles Davis: Unpublished Photos of a Jazz Giant

13 February 2012, 10:36 am
On a spring night in May 1958, LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley shot a few rolls of film at an intimate jazz gig in New York City. Those photographs, featuring musical legends-in-the-making, were never published. Until now....

Jimmy Stewart: A Hero Home From the War

13 February 2012, 10:12 am
In September 1945 a beloved movie star — now a decorated WWII hero — returned to his quiet hometown in Pennsylvania. LIFE was there to chronicle the utterly wholesome goings on....

Mark Wright in the frame for new game show

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
TOWIE star Mark Wright is set to front a new game show opposite Melanie Sykes, which will see men undertaking a series of extreme challenges in order to impress their partners.Mark - who finished…...

Val should have lesbian fling, says Emmerdale star

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
Emmerdale star Charlie Hardwick has said she would love to see her screen alter ego Val Pollard do something wild when she returns to the soap - such as have an affair with a woman.The…...

Tributes paid to Whitney as funeral held

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
Some of the biggest names in showbusiness gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to Whitney Houston as her funeral took place in her home state of New Jersey.Actor Kevin Costner and singing legends…...

New comedy duo 'snogged John Barrowman' on show

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
New TV comedy duo Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver have revealed they were delighted when John Barrowman suggested that they needed to extend scenes in their sketch show in which he kisses them…...

Enders duo, Terry Alderton make Let's Dance final

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
EastEnders stars Tameka Empson and Laurie Brett, and comedian Terry Alderton have become the first two celebrity acts to make the final of Let's Dance for Sport Relief 2012.Tameka - aka Albert…...

DOI contestants banned from risky moves

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
The nine remaining contestants in Dancing On Ice 2012 have been ordered to tone down their risky lifts and moves after Jennifer Ellison suffered a leg injury in rehearsals.The actress needed…...

Scarlett Alice Johnson hails Pramface role

19 February 2012, 12:59 pm
Former EastEnders actress Scarlett Alice Johnson has said that her latest role as a pregnant teenager in BBC3 comedy Pramface is a world away from her role as Vicki Fowler in EastEnders.The…...

Find out why Derek puts a hit on Roxy (VIDEO)

18 February 2012, 1:03 pm
Derek Branning's just what you need in a custody battle - a man who's prepared to hire a hit-man to 'frighten' the other party.Next week in EastEnders, Derek comes up with a foolproof plan to…...

X Factor's Jonjo duets with the Military Wives

18 February 2012, 1:03 pm
X Factor finalist Jonjo Kerr is joining the ranks of No 1 stars the Military Wives for their release.Jonjo is a guest vocalist on a track for the choir's album, to be released next month.The…...

X Factor's Jonjo duets with the Military Wives

Watson & Oliver: Episode 1

22 February 2012, 5:24 pm
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Alex Polizzi - The Fixer: Guidebridge MOT

21 February 2012, 9:31 pm
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Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands: Series 2: Episode 5

21 February 2012, 8:29 pm
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Death Unexplained: Episode 3

21 February 2012, 6:21 pm
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Timothy Spall: All at Sea: Message in a Bottle

21 February 2012, 3:40 pm
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The Tube: Weekend

21 February 2012, 3:40 pm
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The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff: Series 1: Episode 1

21 February 2012, 3:37 pm
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How to Grow a Planet: The Challenger

21 February 2012, 1:24 pm
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Prisoners' Wives: Episode 4

21 February 2012, 7:13 am
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The Diamond Queen: Episode 3

20 February 2012, 10:37 pm
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Fearne Cotton: Wednesday: Brit tracks and gossip

22 February 2012, 3:45 pm
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Radio 3 Live in Concert: LSO - Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich

22 February 2012, 2:13 pm
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Reggie Yates: Reggie and Gemma Live at the Brits

21 February 2012, 10:41 pm
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Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!: Series 7: The Minx

21 February 2012, 7:38 pm
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Radio 3 Live in Concert: BBC Philharmonic - Wagner, Bruch, Elgar

21 February 2012, 12:17 pm
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Blues to the Bone: The Life of Etta James: Episode 1

21 February 2012, 1:18 am
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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us: Celebrating Nevermind

20 February 2012, 11:46 pm
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Just a Minute: Series 62: Episode 2

20 February 2012, 11:19 pm
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Afternoon Drama: Number 10: See Glasgow and Die

20 February 2012, 3:35 pm
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Wordaholics: Episode 1

20 February 2012, 12:35 pm
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The Michael Bentine Show: 08/05/2009

22 February 2012, 1:44 pm
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Hancock's Half Hour: The Bolshoi Ballet

22 February 2012, 1:03 pm
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HR: Series 3: Disinherited

22 February 2012, 12:49 pm
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MacAulay and Co: Susan Calman sits in

22 February 2012, 12:42 pm
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The Mitch Benn Music Show: Series 1: 07/08/2007

22 February 2012, 10:31 am
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The Now Show: Series 36: Episode 1

22 February 2012, 10:10 am
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Nineteen Ninety-Eight: Episode 3

22 February 2012, 10:06 am
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Mark Thomas: The Manifesto: Series 4: Episode 2

22 February 2012, 8:47 am
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Alison and Maud: Series 2: Free Range Angels

22 February 2012, 6:47 am
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Flying the Flag: Series 2: The Bread and Butter

22 February 2012, 6:06 am
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Mozilla Marketplace Opening for App Submissions Soon

22 February 2012, 4:53 pm
The Mozilla Labs Apps project aims to establish a people-centric Apps ecosystem that provides freedom, choice and opportunity for users and developers. We are doing this by adding key capabilities to the Web platform in the form of new Mozilla-proposed APIs and by establishing the Mozilla Marketplace as the the first operating system- and device-independent… Read more...

ACTA is a Bad Way to Develop Internet Policy

10 February 2012, 5:57 pm
Editor’s note: Today, Mitchell Baker posted her thoughts on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement proposal. Below is an excerpt from her blog: ACTA (“Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”) is a proposed new international law establishing international enforcement standards against counterfeit goods and pirated intellectual property items. ACTA was negotiated as a “trade agreement” which means that it was… Read more...

Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools

31 January 2012, 5:49 pm
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without… Read more...

Crowdsourcing the State of the Union

23 January 2012, 4:31 pm
Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe… Read more...

Firefox Users Engage Congress: SOPA Strike Stats

19 January 2012, 10:22 pm
Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct messages to members of the Mozilla community through multiple online channels. All these steps were aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of people on the poorly drafted anti-piracy legislation… Read more...

Mozilla to Join Tomorrowâ��s Virtual Protests of PIPA/SOPA

18 January 2012, 5:02 am
Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us. We will be blacking out the… Read more...

More Than Half-a-Million Dollars Raised for Charity in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge

12 January 2012, 8:38 pm
Celebrity team lead by Sophia Bush is the winner of $25,000 prize for F Cancer Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, powered by CrowdRise, wrapped up last night and raised more than $680,000 by thousands of people around the world for social and humanitarian causes, turning individual action into global impact.… Read more...

Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release

10 January 2012, 4:40 pm
We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these… Read more...

Mozilla seeks designers to supercharge learning in digital badges competition

6 January 2012, 7:08 pm
Design digital badges for NASA, Intel, Disney-Pixar, the U.S. Department of Education and other leading organizations in the “Badges for Learning” competition. Deadline for entries is January 17. Help the world level up with NASA, the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for… Read more...

Firefox: 2011

21 December 2011, 4:26 pm
Firefox helped make the Web more awesome in 2011. We released Firefox 4 with Sync to hundreds of millions of people worldwide; we launched Firefox for Android; added the new Firefox Aurora development channel; adopted a faster release cycle; and introduced Do Not Track to the industry. Now we’re excited to share some of the… Read more...

Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings

20 February 2012, 6:31 pm
When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies. Below we spell out in more detail what we’ve discovered, as well as recommendations to IE users on how to protect their privacy...

Sub-pixel Rendering and the CSS Object Model

17 February 2012, 8:22 pm
With Windows 8, you have an unprecedented choice of devices for browsing the Web, from large desktop screens to small slates. In order to accommodate this range of devices, the browser must be able to scale and layout the Web at many different screen sizes and dimensions. We've previously blogged about some of the features in IE that support these scenarios. Sub-pixel positioning (of text and layout) is one of the core platform technologies which enable Web pages to look beautiful and consis...

HTML5 Love is in the Air!

14 February 2012, 4:57 pm
To help celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re pleased to offer another new HTML5 experience that makes the most of your PC hardware and touch on Windows 8. Check out Love is in the Air and feel the warm embrace of hardware accelerated HTML5. This experience brings together hardware-accelerated HTML5 canvas, SVG, CSS transforms & transitions, WOFF, audio, and more. On Windows Developer Preview with support for multi-touch in IE10, you can reach out and swipe to reveal a special message of lov...

IE 9.0.5 Available via Windows Update

14 February 2012, 4:00 pm
The February 2012 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves 5 privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have f...

CORS for XHR in IE10

10 February 2012, 12:08 am
The fourth platform of IE10 simplifies building cross-site scenarios that work consistently across browsers by supporting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for XMLHttpRequest (XHR). CORS for XHR makes sharing data across sites simple and flexible. In the most basic scenario CORS enables creating data sources accessible from any site, and with a few small tweaks you can choose to constrain allowed sites, support data modification, and even allow authentication. Most importantly CORS keeps exis...

High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps

7 February 2012, 10:33 pm
Metro style apps in Windows 8 have all the performance benefits of IE10 when showing Web content. In Metro style apps, Web content is always JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated. Other platforms do not provide the same level of performance in apps. For example, Cocoa apps on iOS offer significantly worse JavaScript performance (via the UIWebView control) than the same content running in Safari. These Cocoa apps do not enjoy JIT compilation, and these apps cannot show and use Web content the sam...

CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10

2 February 2012, 6:07 pm
CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance their sites. For example, the Windows 8 Metro style Start page uses subtle 3D transforms to highlight pressed tiles, as shown below. Internet Explorer 10 tile shown not pressed (left) and pressed (ri...

Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web

31 January 2012, 5:12 pm
The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins. Even browsers that do support plug-ins offer many ways to run plug-in free. Metro style IE runs plug-in free to improve battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Previously, we wrote about how ...

Creating Files through BlobBuilder

27 January 2012, 9:38 pm
As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API, enabling developers to read and slice files on the client. Platform Preview 4 adds support for BlobBuilder, a way for developers to create new files. IE10 also has two new methods that allow the user to save blobs to their computer, enabling great end-to-end experiences when working w...

Debugging IndexedDB Applications

26 January 2012, 12:51 am
IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view database schemas, object store content, and index details. Exploring the tool with an example IndexedDB App To illustrate, I created an application that tracks my New Year’s resolutions usi...

Colorful GMAIL: Fabulous Themes

20 November 2008, 7:05 pm
This morning I woke up and fire up my browser to check email I got some nice notification when I log on. Gmail got themes!! Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond [...]...

Google Chrome v0.3.154.9 Beta

3 November 2008, 9:27 pm
On the last 29 October 2008 Google Chrome Release Blog announce a new beta version of Google Chrome. According to the blog this new version 0.3.154.9 will be rolling out to user in the next few days. If you have Google Updater running on the background then you will automatically will be updated. For those power user [...]...

Validate Rapidshare Links Automatically Inside Firefox

2 November 2008, 9:51 am
How many times this has happen to you. You go surf the web, found something really nice to download but the user share it using Rapidshare. Ok, no problem. You just right away click the link and now you just noticed the file doesn’t exist anymore. Very annoying situation indeed. And now you just learned whenever you [...]...

The Browser Blog: An Introduction

2 November 2008, 9:01 am
Welcome to The Browsers Blog, my personal web log sharing my experience using all kind of web browsers. Starting from using Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator in the late 1998 until the most current cutting edge browser Google Chrome. So what you will expect from this blog? Here is the what I will present for you from [...]...

Snazzier graphics for more users

9 February 2012, 5:00 pm
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Faster browsing, safer downloading

8 February 2012, 2:00 pm
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Introducing Chrome for Android

7 February 2012, 2:38 pm
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German Federal Office of Information Security recommends Chrome

3 February 2012, 11:15 am
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Bringing Chromebooks to every classroom

25 January 2012, 1:40 pm
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Speed and Security

5 January 2012, 5:00 pm
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Let the games begin!

20 December 2011, 2:30 pm
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Google Cloud Print picks up steam

14 December 2011, 6:08 pm
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New ways to discover apps in the Chrome Web Store

13 December 2011, 8:32 pm
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Get your personal Chrome experience on all your devices

13 December 2011, 1:30 pm
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Radio and Music update: personalisation & mobile

21 February 2012, 1:48 pm
The new Radio homepage, compared to the previous version (behind) This week we have released several new elements of the Radio and Music product, which I will explain in this post. Since my last post in December we have been busy releasing features and fixes every three weeks, listening to audience feedback sent in via our feedback form and also through formal user testing.It’s worth re-stating - before I go into detail on the new features - that what we are doing here is leading to ...

Alix Pryde blogs on satellite TV at the About the BBC blog

20 February 2012, 5:08 pm
Until now, Alix Pryde blogged about BBC services on satellite here on the BBC Internet blog. Starting with her blog post today about some BBC channels moving to a newer satellite, her posts move onto the About the BBC blog: The BBC currently broadcasts many of its television and radio services on Astra 2D, so as part of this replacement process BBC services that are currently located on Astra 2D will be moved across to Astra 1N. Ian McDonald is the Content Producer of the BBC Inte...

What's On BBC Red Button 18th - 25th February

18 February 2012, 6:00 am
White Van Man White Van Man Didn't catch the fantastic first series of White Van Man? Shame on you. But not to worry - you can catch the very best bits on the Red Button. Plus you'll have all the info you need to really enjoy Series Two! Will Mellor plays good guy Ollie, the proverbial man with a van, written by stand-up comedian Adrian Poynton. In Series 1, Ollie reluctantly put his dreams of running a restaurant on the back burner when his ailing father, Tony, turned to him to take over t...

BBC Sport: Live Beyond Live

14 February 2012, 2:00 pm
a selection of design work in progress I'm Scott Byrne-Fraser, Creative Director of the user experience and design team who work alongside the editorial and product teams on BBC Sport's digital products. This month we launched the redesigned sport desktop site, the first step in our digital journey in what is a massive year of sport in 2012. It's a large scale modernisation of the site and the first full redesign in almost ten years. My colleagues Cait O'Riordan and Ben Gallop have alread...

BBC Sport: Strategy, User Testing, and Implementation

14 February 2012, 12:34 pm
BBC Sport homepage My name is Neil Hall and I work with Cait O'Riordan at BBC Future Media. Based in Salford, I am the product manager specifically responsible for the BBC Sport website. Working with our editorial colleagues at BBC Sport, I led the project team who delivered this relaunch. Cait O'Riordan and Ben Gallop have already given you some insight into the relaunch. In this blog post I am going to explain the strategy behind the changes we have made and how we went about implementing th...

What's On BBC Red Button 11th - 19th February

11 February 2012, 6:00 am
Dickens in London Tune into BBC Red Button for the Omnibus edition of five short plays that mark the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens' birth. The theme of the plays is Dickens' changing relationship with London - the city that fired his imagination. Writer Michael Eaton has based each play on Dickens' own letters and journalism: Sketches By Boz and the articles from the journals Household Words and All The Year Round. But these short dramas are never afraid to play fast and loose with a...

BBC Blue Room at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012

9 February 2012, 4:30 pm
CES: the calm before the crowds 2012: my first time at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I hop off the plane with ambition to reach as many of the 3100 gadget filled booths as possible, hard to do in a few days as there are over 20,000 new products alone. The place is epic, five ginormous halls spread over miles - ouch my feet hurt. I'm information gathering for the @BBCBlueRoom - our consumer media technology lab - our 'micro CES'. We look at year-on-year trends to determine the imp...

BBC Sport: Olympic page launch

8 February 2012, 10:56 am
Every event now has a destination page. Hi – just to remind you that I’m responsible within BBC Future Media for the development of the BBC Sport Website, including our Olympic coverage. Following the roll-out of the new BBC Sport website (bbc.co.uk/sport) last week, today we are launching some new pages in the Olympics section. In this blog, I will tell you a little bit about the new pages we are rolling out as well as talk about how your feedback is helping us plan further change...

What's On BBC Red Button 4th - 12th February

4 February 2012, 6:00 am
Radio 2 Folk Awards Mike Harding The Radio 2 Folk Awards will be broadcast live on Wednesday 8 Feb from 7.30pm on BBC Radio 2, online at BBC Radio 2, and on the BBC's Red Button Service. The Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony is a much anticipated annual event in the music world with previous years featuring incredible performances from folk luminaries like James Taylor, Nanci Griffith, and Donovan who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's event. This year, the ceremony ...

Supporting Accessibility: Betsie, Text Only, and the Semantic Web

3 February 2012, 12:00 pm
On the Autumn open post, Russ asked: When did the BBC drop the 'Text only' option for the homepage? Whether or not to provide a Text Only version of a webpage is an interesting Accessibility question. I established the Accessibility Team for public facing BBC digital services back in 2005, and we have been discussing that question since then. At the time the BBC had two Text Only solutions which enabled users of early screen reader technologies and mobile browsers better access to BBC con...

Closing Down a Server

30 July 2010, 6:15 pm
Everything comes to an end, and there are times when shutting down a server for the last time may just be the right thing to do. Whether the hardware is old and the websites need to be moved to a new server, or you have just decided to move on, there are certain steps you [...]...

Anticipation Builds for ARM-Powered Servers

30 July 2010, 6:06 pm
Yesterday, the popular tech blog GigaOM posted a story about Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at ARM Holdings. ARM is known for its low-powered processors that have cornered the market on smartphones, tablets, and many other devices. Lately, Drew has become quite popular with the announcement that ARM is bringing their chips to [...]...

World's smallest-waist woman wins domain dispute

30 July 2010, 6:05 pm
Cathie Jung may have the world’s smallest waist, but that didn’t stop her from filing a court lawsuit over the domain CathieJung.com. Jung, who has worn a corset every day for the last 12 years, wanted to transfer the name’s ownership away from a corset company. The owner was using it to redirect visitors to [...]...

Server OS Tips

29 July 2010, 11:18 pm
Getting the right hardware and network setup for your server is difficult enough. Choosing the right operating system, configuring it, and then maintaining it can be overwhelming. Here are a few tips to get you through the process. 1. If you are on a limited budget, you should definitely consider a free and open source [...]...

Server Backup Tips

29 July 2010, 11:13 pm
Backing up your server may be the single most important thing you ever do. It could save your websites, your clients, and your business. We have covered quite a few backup issues on this blog. Here is a summary of some important points. 1. Always use a remote backup server. Although there are some benefits [...]...

ICANN adds terrorism background checks

29 July 2010, 9:37 pm
Never failing to draw criticism, ICANN has included a controversial new step to the gTLD application process: a terrorism background check. The new policy is listed in the latest edition of the gTLD handbook under “Section 1.2.1 Eligibility and 2.1 Background Check.” Background checks at both the entity level and the individual level will be [...]...

Why it never hurts to double-check your hotlink protection

29 July 2010, 9:22 pm
If you’ve owned a website for any period of time, chances are good you understand the importance of hotlink protection. Thousands of leechers hotlinking can take down the fastest of servers and rack up huge bandwidth bills. I’ve always made sure to set up hotlink protection of my sites, but was surprised yesterday to find [...]...

029.com sells for $110,000

29 July 2010, 8:59 pm
Don’t ask me what’s so special about the number sequence 029, but it must be important to someone because 029.com just sold for $110,000 USD at auction. Two more number domains, 980.com and 123123.com, fetched $40,000 and $20,000 each. There were a number of other miscellaneous odd sales. RandomActsOfKindness.org sold for $25,000, which is quite [...]...

ICANN hands out keys to global cyber guardians

28 July 2010, 8:56 pm
As a part of a security measure to save the Internet from complete and utter destruction in the event of a Dooms Day scenario, ICANN has handed out seven “guardian keys” to secret individuals from the following countries: Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China and the Czech Republic. In the event [...]...

CreditCards.com and NetQuote acquired for $350 million

28 July 2010, 8:13 pm
CreditCards.com and NetQuote announced this week an upcoming acquisition of sites CreditCards.com and NetQuote for $350 million USD. The former contributed $145 million to the deal, while the latter made up $2205 million of the sales price. The sites sold for so much because of their high traffic and revenue, but the sites’ enormous success [...]...

Please sit back to read this! Distance affects your buying decisions

22 February 2012, 10:43 am
Sitting back further from the screen can help your potential customers make the right decision to buy from you. Physical distance changes buying decisions....

Finally, Twitter CAN make a cup of teaâ�¦!

21 February 2012, 8:34 am
Twitter can do a lot of things – but now it can even make tea…! Poorly Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, who plays Hayley Cropper, who managed to haul herself from her sick-bed yesterday afternoon to walk the dog and pick up the kids obviously had to return to bed later in the day to [...]...

The Internet unites people separately

20 February 2012, 11:08 am
The dream of Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to have a World Wide Web that is “free and open” and which extends its “benefits to all people on the planet”. It is a dream which means everyone benefits from being connected, learning from each other and sharing in that new-found knowledge. A natural extension of such [...]...

People are honest online â�� honestly..!

17 February 2012, 10:23 am
People are more honest online than they are in the real world. New research compares online profiles on LinkedIn with printed résumés....

Search behaviour is not what you have been told

15 February 2012, 7:36 am
Search engines tell us that only the first few results get clicked on. That is not true; people look through several pages of search results...

I luv u â�� well if I did Iâ��d SAY soâ�¦!

14 February 2012, 1:58 pm
Today, all across the Internet there will be messages of love. From Tweets to status updates on Facebook and cryptic messages on YouTube there will be an outpouring of affection on the web. There will also be hundreds of millions of text messages sent out saying something simple like “I luv u”. In the past, [...]...

How to beat Facebook

10 February 2012, 7:03 am
Facebook engages its visitors better than other websites according to a new study. But the research reveals how you can take on Facebook....

Online survey tool is not relevant to participation

9 February 2012, 8:59 am
Online survey tool choice may not be worth worrying about to gain maximum participation in surveys. Your reputation is more important....

How stupid can you be as a retailer?

8 February 2012, 4:21 pm
Retailers are missing out on potential sales because they are not offering free, in-store Wi-Fi. People buy more if they get free Wi-Fi....

Charles Dickens would have loved the Internet

7 February 2012, 8:27 am
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ahead of his time. Today the world celebrates his birth back in 1812 when the notion of the World Wide Web would have been science fiction. But had Dickens been around today there is little doubt he would have loved the Internet, would have been a prolific blogger and [...]...

Group Files FTC Complaint Against Google for Privacy Changes

22 February 2012, 4:10 pm
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an... ...

Flickr Rolling Out New Look for Viewing Photos

22 February 2012, 4:07 pm
New interfaces for viewing and uploading photos will debut next week. ...

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22 February 2012, 3:31 pm
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Google's New Privacy Policy: How to Stay Off the Grid

22 February 2012, 3:31 pm
If you are concerned about Google tracking you through your search habits, it is pretty straightforward to turn off the feature. ...

Megaupload Founder Deemed a Low Flight Risk, Released on Bail

22 February 2012, 1:35 pm
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was granted bail on Wednesday in a New Zealand court after a judge found he is not a flight risk. ...

Operators Face SMS Revenue Dip Due to Social Networking

22 February 2012, 8:30 am
Mobile network operators are facing a decline in SMS (Short Message Service) revenue as their customers increasingly use apps for alternative messaging services... ...

9 Ways Google+ Can Help Your Business

21 February 2012, 11:29 pm
Google+ hasn't exactily taken the world by storm. However, with features such as free videoconferencing and the capability to share and promote content with customers and colleagues at a touch of a (+1) button, Google+ is making a concerted effort to court businesses. We look at nine ways it can help you succeed in business. ...

Google, Microsoft Butt Heads Over IE Privacy Skirting

21 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Google yesterday countered Microsoft's contention that it's skirting Internet Explorer's privacy protection, saying it's "impractical" to comply with IE's rules. ...

A.plus: Twitter App for Ashton Kutcher Fans

21 February 2012, 5:32 pm
Ashton Kutcher is the name behind--and plastered all over--this free, third-party Twitter app. ...

Browser Add-On Stops Google (and others) from Tracking You Online

21 February 2012, 5:21 pm
Abine offers browser add-on that prevents Google, advertisers, Facebook, and other marketing companies from tracking you online via a free browser tool. ...

jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released

1 February 2012, 1:33 am
Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of [...]...

Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again

13 December 2011, 4:44 pm
We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since. “Could you make the old backup available for posterity?” Yes. We can — and have. Over the weekend, we restored the [...]...

What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site?

8 December 2011, 9:20 pm
For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some “new submission process.” This happened very suddenly, and we’re sorry to everyone who’s been inconvenienced. Please allow me a few minutes to explain [...]...

jQuery Conference 2012: UK â�� Training Workshops Announced

29 November 2011, 3:56 pm
We are very happy to announce two training workshops for this years United Kingdom conference. The trainings will be given by Doug Neiner, Ralph Whitbeck and Mike Hostetler of appendTo. The general admission tickets for the conference are now sold out but you can buy conference/training bundles and still attend the conference. appendTo will be [...]...

Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas

22 November 2011, 6:28 pm
We’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! This is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jQuery to make it better. You can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed [...]...

jQuery 1.7.1 Released

22 November 2011, 2:39 am
Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week. For those of you living elsewhere in the world, it’s a time when we install and test new versions of Javascript libraries while feasting on Mom’s homemade goodies. Kind of like a code sprint, but with better food. We invite everyone worldwide to join us [...]...

Getting Board of jQuery

18 November 2011, 10:11 pm
TL;DR The body responsible for overseeing jQuery’s finances and administration, which was until today known as the jQuery Team, is now called the jQuery Board. The jQuery Team is for anyone who invests a significant amount of time contributing to jQuery and its related projects. As jQuery has grown from a cool idea in 2005 [...]...

jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released

18 November 2011, 12:35 am
Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 [...]...

Upcoming jQuery Events

11 November 2011, 6:08 pm
jQuery Summit 2011 It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code [...]...

Building a Slimmer jQuery

8 November 2011, 8:42 pm
jQuery is more than five years old now! Over that time it has evolved along with the browsers, web sites, devices, developers, and users that it serves. It has also, um, grown quite a bit over that time. jQuery has added a lot of useful features, but it’s also accumulated cruft that we’d prefer not [...]...

Add jQuery to your Greasemonkey script

5 August 2011, 1:07 pm
Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on that lets you run JavaScript on web pages you specify. Using Greasemonkey you can improve and change the way websites look and behave (see examples of what is possible here). To learn more about it see it's official site, to learn how to include and write your own custom scripts (aka "user scripts") visit coder's manual. Usually Greasemonkey scripts work with the...

HTML: The difference between attribute and property

13 June 2011, 11:37 am
In this short post I will explain the difference between attributes and properties in HTML. The .prop() function introduced in jQuery 1.6 raised a lot of questions about the difference and I hope this post will help you to understand it. What is an attribute? Attributes carry additional information about an HTML element and come in name=”value” pairs. Example:

. Here...

Check if a language file is loaded for jQuery Globalization plugin

15 October 2010, 8:23 pm
Recently, I wrote my first jQuery Globalization plugin introductory post. I mentioned that I will write a tutorial for Globalization plugin and I am. While writing the tutorial I thought I’ll write one of my short Friday jQuery tips. In this post you will learn how to check if a specific jQuery Globalization plugin language file is loaded or not. Globalization plugin saves localization data and ...

JavaScript to detect iPad visitors

6 October 2010, 8:15 pm
This post gives you a short JavaScript function to detect your iPad users. Without any further ado, a javascript code to detect iPad users: function isiPad(){ return (navigator.platform.indexOf("iPad") != -1); } You can also detect browser version and some other stuff by parsing user agent string. Here is an iPad Safari’s user agent string for your reference: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3...

jQuery Globalization plugin â�� jquery.glob.js

5 October 2010, 10:17 pm
This is the first post of a series that are dedicated to jQuery’s new Microsoft contributed Globalization plugin or shortly jquery.glob.js. In this first post I will try to cover the very basics like library licensing, “the good & the bad” and some thoughts on how it could be improved (IMO). I will be post some jQuery globalization plugin tutorials in coming days, so bare with me. Before we ...

Russian CDN for jQuery

25 September 2010, 5:19 pm
I recently discovered that the biggest Russian search engine Yandex (yeah, it’s bigger than Google in Russia) is using jQuery on its home page. It also hosts all previous jQuery versions on it’s fast gzip enabled servers just like Google and MIcrosoft do. Because most of the Russian internet users have visited Yandex already, they already have it in their browser cache. I also did route tracing ...

iPhone / iPod detection using jQuery & JavaScript

24 September 2010, 5:36 pm
In this post you will learn how to detect iPhone/iPod using javascript/jQuery, redirect your iPhone users to mobile version of your site using javascript and alternative and better way to redirect your visitors using server-side PHP code snippet. The latest buzz around jQuery is upcoming jQuery mobile – support for mobile devices. Current jQuery core work fine on iPhone and iPod touch browsers ...

jQuery mobile source code

22 September 2010, 5:30 pm
If you want to download jQuery Mobile source code and look into it just like everybody else, we are all out of luck :( As I mentioned in my previous post jQuery mobile facts, the source code will be available in October this year. The jQuery Mobile source will not be in a separate jquery.mobile.js file. It will be right in the jQuery core. This means that jQuery team is fixing and improving ...

jQuery & Cookies (get/set/delete & a plugin)

21 September 2010, 10:04 pm
In this post I would like to share javascript functions that will help you easily get, set, delete and basically manage your cookies. Also, link to jQuery Cookie plugin, it’s improved version with more functions and of course easy to read and short examples on how to use these functions. I will try to keep this post short and will not explain what cookies are and how to eat them. There are ...

jQuery Mobile

29 August 2010, 4:38 pm
jQuery Mobile is an attempt to create a javascript framework that would work on all major mobile browsers. In this post I will try to lay down all the facts that I could find about jQuery Mobile, so that you are up to date. jQuery team has mentioned that they were planning and started to work on jQuery for Mobile devices when they announced jQuery 1.4. John Resig said that they already had ...

jQuery UI Close Dialog on Overlay Click

9 July 2011, 7:16 pm
I have seen a lot of overly complex solutions for this simple problem and none of them have been valid solutions, here is a snippet that accomplishes it in an unambiguous manner. $('#el').dialog({ open: function(e){ var self = this; $('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click', function(){ $(self).dialog('close'); }); }, close: function(){ $('.ui-widget-overlay').unbind('click'); } });...

When Percents Just Donâ��t Cut It

2 March 2011, 4:46 pm
The Code $.fn.fill = function(options){ var settings, container, el, calculateHeight, calculateWidth; settings = { fill: window, margins: { x: 0, y: 0 } }; if(options){ $.extend(settings, options); } container = $(settings.fill); el = $(this); calculateWidth = function(){ return (container.width() - settings.margins.x); }; calculateHeight = function(){ return (container.height() - settings.margins.y); } el.css({ width: calculateWidth(), height: calculateHeight() [...]...

Remove jQuery From Your WordPress Theme

27 November 2010, 8:44 pm
WordPress will generally inject jQuery into your front-end theme which in my opinion is a huge fail. Often times plugins will do it, fortunately there is a simple fix......

Grid Bookmarklets

23 August 2010, 10:29 pm
This morning I was seeking after a sweet bookmarklet to overlay a grid to the current website. Andy Budd had a pretty cool one but there was no way to turn it off, also the image was a little busy. So with the help of Jacob O’Neal for the images I created a modified version [...]...

Confirmootion â�� MooTools Class For HTML5 â�� Rails 3 Inspired Confirmations

25 February 2010, 10:56 pm
With Rails 3 Comes The End Of Obtrusive JavaScript (please!) Ruby on Rails 3 makes huge use of custom attributes using the data-* from the HTML 5 spec. This is a miniature class that will grab all anchor tags with “data-confirm”, pull that attributes value and stop the default event from firing till after they [...]...

Developer Tools In Safari

7 February 2010, 12:15 am
For a long time I was using Firefox just for Firebug. You know, sort of like when two people stay married for the kid. I was sick and tired of how Firefox rendering looked, hard to explain just not quite as smooth. When Chrome for Mac was released in the beta phases I was stoked… [...]...

WTFramework â�� Detect Which Framework A Site Is Using, The Easy Way

27 December 2009, 8:20 pm
WTFramework Summary WTFramework is a dead simple, and well designed way to detect which framework a site is using as well as version. Being primarily a JavaScript developer I was always looking through the source to find which framework a certain site was using. Or to see if the developer had done something particularly cool [...]...

Making Every Specified Link Send Via Ajax Using MooTools

17 December 2009, 5:44 am
This is a relatively simple concept and is nothing to elaborate but I wanted to share a small piece of code that will take every link with the class of “ajax” and access it using AJAX instead of actually going to that page. This using the same Request instance which will keep it optimized and [...]...

MooTools â�� Itâ��s Worth It!

7 November 2009, 11:25 pm
In my attempt to use MooTools on new projects with other developers, share MooTools with other developers, or just releasing a MooTools class; I’ve come across the same complaints about this incredible framework. MooTools Complaints Poor Documentation While its true MooTools is poorly documented compared to other frameworks it is still worth learning and with [...]...

MooTools Grapher Class

4 November 2009, 8:50 pm
Let it be known. This class doesn’t have a lot of options but it is fairly dynamic. If people actually use this class I will make it more customizable to the options and not just the class itself. While this is nothing special and there are plenty of great MooTools graphing systems out there I [...]...

Using jQueryâ��s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods

20 December 2011, 6:51 pm
The .pushStack() method has been in jQuery since before version 1.0, but it hasn't received a whole lot of attention outside of core developers and plugin authors. While its usefulness may not be immediately apparent, it can come in really handy in some situations, so I'd like to take a quick look at what it [...]...

Using jQueryâ��s Data APIs

2 September 2011, 4:52 pm
In the beginning (well, beginning with jQuery 1.2.3 in early 2008) there was the jQuery.data() API. It offers a way to associate JavaScript data — strings, numbers, or any object — with a DOM element. As long as you manipulate the DOM element with jQuery, the library ensures that when the DOM element goes away, [...]...

jQuery.map() in 1.6

3 May 2011, 8:39 pm
Among all of the great fixes and additions to jQuery 1.6, I'm happy to say that jQuery.map() now supports objects! The previous map only supported arrays. With other libraries already offering object support for map, it was a nice addition. Let's say you want to collect an array of object keys from a JSON object. [...]...

Merging jQuery Deferreds and .animate()

17 February 2011, 12:46 pm
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on danheberden.com. jQuery’s .animate() method, and the shorthand methods that use it, are fantastic tools to create animations. Creating animations that link together to achieve a particular effect, and do something specific at the end of the animation, can be a painful, messy task. Luckily, we have .queue() for [...]...

Introducing jQuery API Search

10 September 2010, 11:28 am
Half-baked tutorials and plugins have been stacking up for months in my virtual kitchen, waiting for me to fire up the oven, finish the cooking, and spread them out on the table. For some reason, though, I've become less and less sure about whether I've put all the right ingredients into the mix. It's irritating, [...]...

Great Ways to Learn jQuery

7 July 2010, 3:11 pm
These jQuery resources will set you on the path towards mastering jQuery. Written Articles Getting Started with jQuery - this is the official jQuery getting started guide. jQuery for JavaScript Programmers - Simon Willison (creator of django) gives you an introduction to jQuery for people who already understand JavaScript. jQuery Crash Course - Nathan Smith [...]...

Autocomplete Migration Guide

23 June 2010, 1:28 pm
The jQuery Autocomplete plugin got a successor recently, the jQuery UI Autocomplete. In this guide we'll look at the old plugin API step-by-step, and how to migrate to the new API. At first it may look like the new plugin supports barely any of the old options. We'll see how all the old options can [...]...

A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood

8 June 2010, 10:00 am
Update on 2010-08-17: This article was updated to reflect the changes to the combobox code in jQuery UI 1.8.4 The jQuery UI 1.8 release brings along the new autocomplete widget. An autocomplete adds a list of suggestions to an input field, displayed and filtered while the user is typing. This could be attached to a [...]...

Now you see meâ�¦ show/hide performance

4 May 2010, 12:51 pm
I just got back from the jQuery conference in San Francisco. Wow, what an event. In addition to some incredible talks, I had the opportunity to speak with Rey Bango, Johnathon Sharp, and, of course, John Resig. Any conference where you get to talk to some of the most influential people in jQuery is a [...]...

Accessible Showing and Hiding

23 April 2010, 1:42 pm
Editor's Note: When I started this blog nearly three years ago, one of the first things I did was write a series on showing and hiding elements on a page. The posts were very basic, as was my knowledge at the time. At best, they demonstrated an incomplete answer to the question of how to [...]...

jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released

Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again

What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site?

jQuery Conference 2012: UK â�� Training Workshops Announced

Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas

jQuery 1.7.1 Released

Getting Board of jQuery

jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released

Upcoming jQuery Events

Building a Slimmer jQuery

Nominet confirmed to apply for .wales and .cymru - 22/02/2012

22 February 2012, 3:34 pm
New Opportunity for Wales to position on global stage...

Britons risk becoming nation of 'accidental outlaws' - 15/11/2011

14 November 2011, 4:36 pm
Study finds low awareness of how the law applies online - take the free test yourself at www.knowthenet.org.uk/accidentaloutlaw...

Nominet to roll out multi-year registration periods for .uk domain names - 10/11/2011

10 November 2011, 9:30 am
Registrants will be able to lock-in their domain names for up to 10 years from 1 May 2012...

Best of the UK's innovative Internet initiatives recognised at the Nominet Internet Awards - 29/07/2011

29 July 2011, 2:15 pm
Six projects that help make the Internet a safer, accessible and more trusted place for all to be highlighted at September's Internet Governance Forum meeting...

Nominet considers variable registration periods for .uk domain names - 05/07/2011

5 July 2011, 9:09 am
Stakeholders encouraged to have their say...

Nominet paves way for safer Internet with DNSSEC for all .uk domains - 18/05/2011

18 May 2011, 3:27 pm
UK registry enables deployment of domain name system security extensions for 9.4 million second level .uk domains....

Nominet calls on stakeholders to get involved in domain expiry policy process - 12/05/2011

12 May 2011, 1:48 pm
Issue brief published at nominet.org.uk...

Nominet calls on stakeholders to get involved in policy process - 09/02/2011

9 February 2011, 12:00 pm
Updates to dealing with Domain names used in connection with criminal activity and Expired Domain Tasting issues available at nominet.org.uk...

Registered Rights sunrise for 'short'.uk domains to close on 17 January - 06/01/2011

6 January 2011, 9:07 am
10 days left for trade mark holders to apply for previously unavailable .co.uk, .me.uk, .org.uk and .net.uk domains...

Nominet Chief Executive awarded OBE - 31/12/2010

5 January 2011, 12:04 pm
Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive of Nominet, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List for services to the internet and e-commerce....

Monitoring Update - January 2012

31 January 2012, 12:58 pm
Updates on progress following the Authority’s recommendations in Monitoring Reports and Monitoring Briefs...

Statistics on nationality of benefit claimants

25 January 2012, 6:47 pm
Sir Michael Scholar replies to Chris Bryant MP regarding statistics on nationality of DWP benefit claimants...

Statistics on nationality of benefit claimants

25 January 2012, 12:48 pm
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions regarding statistics on nationality of benefit claimants...

Widening Participation in Higher Education, Statistics for England

22 December 2011, 2:14 pm
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Rt. Hon. Dr Vincent Cable MP and Statistical Expenditure Report: Widening Participation in Higher Education, Statistics for England...

Adult Social Care Statistics for England

22 December 2011, 2:13 pm
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Rt. Hon. Andrew Lansley MP and Statistical Expenditure Report: Adult Social Care Statistics for England...

Findings from the Assessment Programme 2009-11

22 December 2011, 12:00 am
Monitoring Brief detailing findings from the Assessment Programme 2009-11...

Breach of pre-release access: Consumer Prices Index

19 December 2011, 4:11 pm
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Secretary of State for Business regarding a departmental breach of pre-release access to Consumer Prices Index release for November 2011...

Drug seizures statistics

15 November 2011, 9:19 am
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Immigration Minister regarding statistics on drug seizures published by the UK Border Agency...

Change in Government: Open Data

3 November 2011, 2:53 pm
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee in response to the Committee's recommendations about the release of data...

Statistics on Juvenile Re-Offending

21 October 2011, 4:00 pm
Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Chair of House of Commons Home Affairs Committee regarding statistics on juvenile re-offending...

Steve Martin - Jubilation Day

13 June 2011, 6:03 pm
Lots of Dancing birds and some bitterness gives us Jubilation Day....

Can I Be Your Friend?

13 June 2011, 4:41 pm
Ever thought how odd online life is? What if you did online actions in real life?...

Lioness Wants To Nom Nom....

13 June 2011, 4:33 pm
On this baby's head....really bad....

The Comedian With Tape On His Face

13 June 2011, 4:22 pm
A comedian who is entertaining without 'telling' any jokes....

Bus Stop Boogie Boy

13 June 2011, 2:45 pm
Getting down while waiting for the bus. You have to admire his attitude of 'I love to dance and I don't care who sees'...

Drifting Like A Boss

13 June 2011, 2:30 pm
Drivin in my car, livin' like a star....

Dance Battle Fail

13 June 2011, 1:15 pm
He totally meant to do that.......

Killer Queen Cover By FreddeGredde And His Clones

13 June 2011, 1:14 pm
Not sure who is more talented....him or the clones?...

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night -With Rebecca Black

13 June 2011, 1:00 pm
Katy's new video, a cameo-heavy, 80s-themed short, hit the web late Sunday and began spreading. Love it or hate it IAB?...

Explosive Art- Mural Created By Pyrotechnics

13 June 2011, 12:13 pm
Slow motion explosives set to groovy music carve out a pretty cool image on a wall. Asplosions!...

More Mardi Gras Shenanigans [Pic]

21 February 2012, 9:20 pm
Booze has really boated up the Batman....

Your Latchkey Dog Panicked [Pic]

21 February 2012, 8:17 pm
It just means he loves you....

Bad News- They Broke Your Car Window [Pic]

21 February 2012, 8:13 pm
Good News- Your insane knowledge of Internet memes is finally paying off....

Meanwhile While Studying Your Stats Textbook [Pic]

21 February 2012, 7:05 pm
I wonder how many bored student skimmed past that one....

Stupid Tattoo Of The Day- Spellcheck, Moron! [Pic]

21 February 2012, 6:19 pm
If your going to get a text-heavy tattoo, make sure you check your spelling....

I Hate Those 'In Loving Memory' Decals... [Pic]

21 February 2012, 6:16 pm
...but in this case, I approve....

Stylish Presentation Of An Ice Cream Cone

21 February 2012, 4:29 pm
It's cute for the first 30 seconds or so but then you just want to punch this guy in the mustache....

America, This Is Why You're Fat, Yet Again [Pic]

21 February 2012, 3:10 pm
Because you cry about your food!...

I Really Hope These Are Breath Mints [Pic]

21 February 2012, 2:30 pm
If not, I don't want to know how and where you put them......

Bar's Troll Sign Trolls Hard [Pic]

21 February 2012, 2:21 pm
Still sounds like a good offer though....

IceCube

2 April 2008, 5:15 am
Place objects to get past each level in this fun platform game....

Amberial- Nebulosa Realms

1 April 2008, 5:00 pm
The AmberBall is back in a huge new adventure with all that you requested !...

Crazy Graviton

1 April 2008, 5:00 am
Crazy Graviton is a colorful mixture of pinball, pong and brickshooter....

Slipstream

1 April 2008, 2:00 am
Play this addictive game - Slipstream - where you pilot a rocket at increasing speeds. Do you have what it takes?...

Great Indian Magician

30 March 2008, 11:00 pm
Can you help the swami successfully accomplish all eight magic tricks?...

Squares

30 March 2008, 5:10 am
How much simpler can it get? Red = bad, black = good....

Kinetikz

30 March 2008, 2:00 am
Just fire discs at the puck to guide it to the target--this one is heavy on the skill....

Multiplayer 8 Ball

29 March 2008, 8:00 pm
Challenge your friends in this multiplayer game of classic 8 Ball. Don't have any friends, then shoot with a stranger....

The Last Canopy

29 March 2008, 5:00 am
In this shooter, you start off as a fairy with low firepower. Absorb enemy attacks and sock it back at 'em....

Thermostorm

29 March 2008, 2:00 am
Cool platformer, infiltrate the enemy base, follow the on-screen mission objectives....

Twisted Paper Clip Art [Pics]

21 February 2012, 5:23 am
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Sh*t the Downton Abbey Countess Says [Video]

20 February 2012, 5:25 am
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Unleash Chaos on Your House

19 February 2012, 5:28 am
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Genetic Portraits [Pics]

19 February 2012, 5:25 am
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Jon LaJoie Dating Service Commercial

15 February 2012, 10:27 pm
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Jennifer is a Party Pooper [Video]

15 February 2012, 5:54 am
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Whitney Houston Isolated Vocal Track [Video]

14 February 2012, 5:25 am
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Fake Ben and Jerry [Pics]

11 February 2012, 2:37 pm
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2012 Election Results Leaked [Video]

9 February 2012, 5:25 am
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Vegan Ryan Gosling

9 February 2012, 3:08 am
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Thomas Aquinas

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."...

Morihei Ueshiba

"A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind."...

Alfred Adler

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."...

Alfred Austin

"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."...

Blomqvist joins McLaren's driver development programme

22 February 2012, 5:26 pm
McLaren have announced on Wednesday that British teenager Tom Blomqvist, son of 1984 world rally champion Stig Blomqvist, has joined the select group of young talent on their driver development programme. I'm thrilled to get this opportunity with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, said Blomqvist. The competition gets fiercer every time you step up a category, and having this level of support will really improve my strength and confidence....

Barcelona day two - Hulkenberg on top for Force India

22 February 2012, 4:33 pm
Force India's Nico Hulkenberg ended the second day of testing at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya as the quickest runner. Hulkenberg posted a best time of 1m 22.608s on Wednesday at the Spanish track to beat the Sauber of Sergio Perez by four hundredths of a second. Perez completed 85 laps in the C31, despite an exhaust problem towards the end of the day. Quite a few high priority points have been ticked off the job list, explained Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Sauber's head of track engineering. I...

Exclusive Sergio Perez Q&A: Sauber moving in right direction

22 February 2012, 3:47 pm
After a few technical difficulties, this week's Barcelona test isn't going wholly to plan for Sauber's Sergio Perez. But, despite the limited mileage, Perez remains optimistic that the team is making steady progress and that his new car will be competitive once the season gets underway...

Bahrain 2012 - now on sale

22 February 2012, 2:58 pm
The 2012 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix takes place on April 20-22 and tickets are now available on Formula1.com. Making its eighth appearance on the F1 calendar, Bahrain provides a race-going experience like no other. For a unique insight into the only island state in the Arab world and its spectacular Sakhir circuit...

Exclusive Sebastian Vettel Q&A: You can't rely on past glories

22 February 2012, 11:47 am
Approaching a season as the reigning champion means you have little to gain and a lot to lose. But if you're Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, and you're aiming to follow in the footsteps of Fangio and Schumacher by clinching a third successive title, then there's a very tangible target. At the moment, however, Vettel is forgetting what lies ahead and simply concentrating on ironing out any teething problems afflicting the RB8 and regaining the levels of grip he enjoyed last season...

Lotus forced to abandon Barcelona for the week

21 February 2012, 9:03 pm
Lotus will not run for the remainder of this week's second pre-season test at Barcelona following the issue experienced with the team's second E20 chassis when it was shaken down for the first time by Romain Grosjean on Tuesday morning. After discovering the problem, Lotus had initially planned to bring the first E20 chassis - which successfully completed the first Jerez test...

Barcelona day one - Vettel sets the pace for Red Bull

21 February 2012, 4:14 pm
Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets for Red Bull as this week's four-day test got underway at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday. Vettel's best, a 1m 23.265s, was over a tenth of a second faster than the quickest lap from second-placed runner Nico Hulkenberg in the Force India. The opening day of the second official pre-season test saw 11 teams in action, with only HRT missing. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was third fastest, ahead of Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciard...

Exclusive Nico Rosberg Q&A: We are more motivated than ever

21 February 2012, 3:53 pm
The launch of a new Mercedes car always attracts a lot of the attention and with the F1 W03 joining the fray slightly later than its rivals, the paddock has been especially curious. After the unveiling, we caught up with Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg to discuss his new charge. And although Rosberg believes it's still too early to fully evaluate its worth, the German is certain the car has a lot of potential...

Chassis problem brings Lotus test to a standstill

21 February 2012, 12:38 pm
Lotus will miss the rest of Tuesday's test at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya because of an issue with their car. Driver Romain Grosjean had completed just a few laps in the second E20 chassis during the morning session when the team decided to abandon their test programme. This morning was our first shakedown of our second chassis, explained trackside operations director Alan Permane. Once the car was on track it was soon evident that everything wasn't quite as it should be. As a precau...

Wurz returns to Williams as driver mentor

21 February 2012, 9:23 am
Williams have announced that former driver Alexander Wurz will return to the British team as a driver mentor. Wurz will start his new role at this week's Barcelona test and also plans to accompany the team to races this season to assist racers Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna. This is a great initiative by Williams and highlights just how hard the team is pushing to optimise its performance, said Wurz. Throughout my career as a sportsman, which started at the age of 12 in BMX racing, incl...

Mattias Geniar's Blog: php_value vs php_admin_value and the use of php_flag explained

22 February 2012, 6:14 pm
In this quick post to his blog Mattias Geniar looks at three different Apache flags you can use in your configuration/.htaccess files to set various things in your PHP environment. Back in 2009 there was a bug in the php_admin_value implementation before PHP 5.2.6. Since then, everything should run smoothly again. However, I find there's still a lot of confusion on when to use php_value, php_admin_value, php_flag and php_admin_flag. So I'll see if we can clear some of that. He compar...

NetTuts.com: PDO vs. MySQLi: Which Should You Use?

22 February 2012, 5:58 pm
On the NetTuts.com site today there's a quick tutorial comparing two of the main database access methods available to PHP developers - PDO and MySQLi - based on performance and features they each have. When accessing a database in PHP, we have two choices: MySQLi and PDO. So what should you know before choosing one? The differences, database support, stability, and performance concerns will be outlined in this article. The article starts with a summary of what each of the tools offer...

Dzone.com: A Free Amazon EC2 Cloud Server Based LAMP

22 February 2012, 4:42 pm
In this new article on DZone.com, Artur Mkrtchyan shows you how to get an Amazon EC2 instance up and running and get a LAMP server set up and ready to go. In this article I'm going to show you how to create a free Amazon EC2 cloud based LAMP Server and Point your domain to Amazon EC2 Instance. There are 4 simple steps to do. The setup process is pretty easy - getting an Amazon free account, creating a server from an existing image, installing the LAMP stack and pointing your domain a...

Dave Marshall's Blog: How I'm designing a RESTful(ish) web service

22 February 2012, 3:13 pm
Dave Marshall is in the process of building a "RESTish" web service and has shared some of his planning steps in a new post to his blog. This post is going to describe how I've ending up designing, what I consider to be a fairly RESTful web API. I'm far from being an expert, and this is definitely the closest thing to a RESTful API that I've ever created, so I'm not even experienced with REST APIs. [...] Until about 6 months ago, I'd always been sceptical of creating RESTful APIs, but I t...

Community News: Dutch PHP Conference Schedule Announced!

22 February 2012, 2:09 pm
The Dutch PHP Conference has officially announced their schedule for this year's event and the opening of the registration (Early Bird pricing ending April 1st). We are happy to announce that we have just published the schedule and registration is now open. Quickly, go and check out all the great content we have to offer this year! Once you've decided that you want to join us, you can go to the registration page to order your tickets. Please note that you will get a 15% early bird discoun...

Community News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org

22 February 2012, 1:04 pm
Rainbow Maker URL Tool IE9 Helper QR SAT Simple Session (PDO / MySQL) Date Convert DB Schema Management PDO Database Connection select2csv csv2tbl Smooth Scroll CakePHP Plugin Fill Form User Agent Parser FillForm ...

Community News: The Great Web Framework Shootout

21 February 2012, 5:03 pm
Seth Davis has put together a github repository with some benchmarking for some of the most common web frameworks - both PHP and not. His statistic is "requests per second" in a few scenarios: a "hello world" string test, a test with a database connection and one with a templated response. It should also be noted that my goal here was not necessarily to figure out how fast each framework could perform at its most optimized configuration (although built-in caching and other performance twe...

Marcelo Gornstein's Blog: Sniffing in PHP using libpcap: Thank you SWIG!

21 February 2012, 4:13 pm
Marcelo Gornstein has posted a new article showing how to use SWIG and libpcap to sniff packets from the network directly from his PHP application. I've been wanting to try SWIG for a long time, but never got the chance, for one thing or the other. So this weekend I've finally decided to give it a try by trying to create a php extension that access a small C++ wrapper for libpcap, so I can sniff packets directly from PHP. Just for fun (and actually because I couldn't find any active pecl ...

PHPMaster.com: Creating Web Services with PHP and SOAP, Part 1

21 February 2012, 3:52 pm
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial posted, the first part in a series, showing how to create SOAP web services with the help of the NuSOAP library. In this first of a two part series on web services I'll talk about the SOAP specification and what is involved in creating SOAP messages. I'll also demonstrate how to create a SOAP server and client using the excellent NuSOAP library to illustrate the flow of SOAP. In the second part I'll talk about the importance of WSDL files, how...

Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Matthew Weier O'Phinney

21 February 2012, 2:38 pm
On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast today Cal Evans has posted the latest interview with a member of the PHP community. This time it's Matthew Weier O'Phinney, lead on the Zend Framework project. Cal's "three questions" for Matthew were: Since Zend Framework is the opposite of the ideals behind the Micro PHP Manifesto, what are your thoughts on it? Zend Framework 2 is close but not done - should a new project go with v1 or v2? What's your local user group and it's URL (hint: there...

Proem framework hits milestone 0.1.0

14 January 2012, 8:01 am
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The problem with hover based menus

1 November 2011, 5:06 pm
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Congrats to phpfreaks member phpSensei for winning 2011 Skills Canada Web development competition!

22 July 2011, 4:03 am
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Developing HTML Emails

11 April 2011, 7:20 pm
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Support the fixing of the XDebug profiler!

20 February 2011, 10:58 pm
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[Snippet] Search for documents by keyword - a bit like tagging

22 February 2012, 12:41 am
File Name: Search for documents by keyword - a bit like tagging File Submitter: PaulD File Submitted: 29 Jan 2009 File Updated: 29 Jan 2009 File Category: Miscellaneous This snippet is a piece of code that you may find handy. I had a folder with lots of documents, each representing an album. I used the keywords on each page to identify the musicians on each album. I wanted then to be able to gather all the documents by a specific musician (keyword). So this is what I came up with. It works r...

[Template] Easy Breeze

16 February 2012, 9:52 pm
File Name: Easy Breeze File Submitter: Dean File Submitted: 4 Oct 2008 File Updated: 4 Oct 2008 File Category: Etomite Templates Easy Breeze Template by EtomiteLive.com Click here to download this file...

No Document Tree, No Upload Possible

11 February 2012, 10:06 pm
In may from this year I reported that upgrading to php 5.3.2 caused several deprecated functions, but now I don't know if that has been the reason for the malfunctioning. Nothing has changed on the server and I'm having the same problems again. No document tree, no upload function. Does anybody has an idea?...

Could You Please Help Me With Questionnaire About Cms

10 February 2012, 3:02 pm
My name is Piotr and I am a student at Edinburgh Napier University studying Web Technologies. As part of my course I am required to write a dissertation on a topic of my choice, therefore this dissertation is designed to enable me to understand differences and similarities of Open Source (Wordpress, Drupal, Wiki, Joomla etc.) and Commercial (SiteCore, EpiServe, Ektron, Alterian, Amaxus, Sitefinity etc.) Content Management System within user point of view. I am aware of the busy schedules of eve...

Site Offline Not Showing On Ie

10 February 2012, 1:43 pm
I have an interesting problem: I am working on a site, and suring production I place the site offline via the Configuration > Site unavailable message. The "message" has a couple of words and an image using HTML. It displays fine on Firefox and Chrome but NOT on Internet Explorer. Just to be safe, I changed the HTML and used a simple short text sentence. The same results: the text is displayed on the aforementioned browsers, but not on IE. You can see what I mean here: http://compaccusa.co...

google indexing empty url variable

9 February 2012, 2:12 pm
anyone know a way to block indexing of a page with an empty url variable? ie google indexes ".index.php?id=" can't seem to find how to block this. I read adding a '$' in robots.txt (Disallow: /index.php?id=$) would do it but tested it at GWC and the page is still allowed. Etomite does a good job of redirecting to the home page when there is an empty variable, but in a site with lots of variables, not managed with Etomite, you get a messed up blank page from these links (from google). Just an...

What is a custom data interface?

8 February 2012, 12:56 pm
I think many users are scared when they see the terms MVC, or Custom Data Interface. I just wanted to dispell any myths that they are tricky or complex. I posted a controller a long time ago and was very surprised that no-one else added their samples. However, when you think about it, why would someone choose etomite? It is user-friendly (which means it works without having to know a heap about code). But it also means that users who do know code have a great platform to build it on. Which...

Site Suddenly Not Saving Pages - Probably Nothing To Do With Etomite Itself :-(

25 January 2012, 4:55 pm
Hi, I don't think this has got anything to do with Etomite, but probably with the hosting environment (which is not my own in this case) but an Etomite site I help out someone with suddenly will not save any page changes. The save button just does not do anything. As far as I can tell, none of the files have changed or altered, and the site was working perfectly. Has anyone experienced a similar thing before and if so, does anyone have any clues about a possible solution. Thanks for any help...

Problems With Etomite Cache After Hosting Company Moved Site To New Server

2 January 2012, 10:33 pm
As I've posted elsewhere my hosting company has moved site to a new server and seems to have messed up permissions in the process. Caching doesn't work - new pages can't be cached - it gives a permissions error - the cache can't be cleared - it gives a permissions error - pages can't be editted - or at least they can, but pages can't be cached even if the old cached page is manually deleted Can someone advise on the permissions needed in the directories, please, and on the procedure for re-init...

Need new hosting company

2 January 2012, 10:28 pm
The company I currently use for hosting my sites is closing down shortly, so I need to find a new hosting company urgently. I manage about ten sites currently, using Etomite, phpBB, and Wordpress, and am considering trying to expand this, so I'm looking for a small 'entry level' reseller type package. There seem to be few suitable options in the UK - does anyone have any experience of Daily.co.uk or jabwebsolutions.co.uk alternatively, maybe its time to look at US offerings, so does anyone have...

TellaFriend

9 March 2011, 9:36 am
This is a Snippet that generates a dynamic form for sending emails to a FriendList It makes use of the "prototype" javascript framework for convenient DOM manipulation. INSTALL : 1) copy the content of the "TellaFriend.txt" file into a new snippet and name it "TellaFriend" 2) copy the content of the "TellaFriend_Chunk.txt" into a new Chunk and name it "TellaFriend" 3) add the "Add.png" and "Remove.png" files to your etomite "assets/images/" directory 4) download the "scriptaculous" javascript...

Finding Peace

2 March 2011, 2:50 pm
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ZanorgPlayer

30 January 2011, 1:42 pm
// ZanorgPlayer v1.0 // // MP3 Player and MP3 File from http://radio.zanorg.com/zplayer_eng.htm // Turned into an Etomite Snippet by Dean // // TO INSTALL: // 1. Upload the zplayer.swf and sample.mp3 file to the assets folder // 2. Create a NEW snippet called ZanorgPlayer // 3. Copy and paste all of this into the ZanorgPlayer snippet you just created // 4. Place the snippet call within your page, for example: // [ ! ZanorgPlayer?mp3=sample.mp3 ! ] - this will load the sample.mp3 fil...

SiteUpdate

11 September 2010, 7:42 pm
// Snippet name: SiteUpdate // Snippet description: Returns date of most recent published document update // Revision: 1.2 ships with Etomite Prelude v1.0...

SearchResults

11 September 2010, 7:41 pm
// SearchResults // Displays results of SearchPrompt snippet...

SearchPrompt

11 September 2010, 7:39 pm
// Snippet name: SearchPrompt // Snippet description: Search prompt snippet for use with SearchResults // Revision: 1.00 ships with Etomite 0.6.1-Final // Use: [!SearchPrompt?resultsid=###!] snippet call where ### is the // document id of the page which contains the [!SearchResults!] snippet call...

SearchForm

11 September 2010, 7:38 pm
// Snippet name: SearchForm // Snippet description: All-in-one snippet to search the site // Revision: 1.1 ships with Etomite 0.6.1-Final...

RelatedInfo

11 September 2010, 7:37 pm
// Snippet name: RelatedInfo // Snippet description: Outputs a related chunk into the document // Revision: 1.0 ships with Etomite 0.6.1-Final // Author: Lloyd Borrett - 2006-04-09 // Description: // Outputs a chunk into the document based on the // document's alias/id, and optionally, a prefix // passed to the chunk....

PageTrail

11 September 2010, 7:35 pm
// Snippet name: PageTrail // Snippet description: Outputs the page trail, based on Bill Wilson's script // Revision: 1.00 ships with Etomite 0.6.1-Final...

NewsListing

11 September 2010, 7:34 pm
// -------------------- // Snippet: NewsListing // -------------------- // Originated as NewsListing v1.0 by Alex // Revised as NewsListingRevised by mrruben5 // Revised as NewsListingRev02 by LePrince // Revised as NewsListingRev03 v1.0 by Lloyd Borrett (lloyd@borrett.id.au) // Revised as NewsListingRev04 v1.0 by Ian Smith (www.n-vent.com)...

Northeast PHP conference - Call for Papers!

9 February 2012, 1:36 pm
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PHP 5.3.10 Released!

2 February 2012, 7:32 pm
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PHP 5.4.0 RC6 released

24 January 2012, 12:05 pm
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ConFoo 2012

20 January 2012, 5:20 am
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PHP 5.3.9 Released!

10 January 2012, 9:29 pm
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PHP 5.4.0 RC5 released

7 January 2012, 2:44 pm
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PHPBenelux 2012

7 January 2012, 1:47 pm
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PHP 5.4.0 RC4 released

25 December 2011, 12:14 am
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Dutch PHP Conference 2012

23 December 2011, 10:11 am
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PHP 5.4.0RC3 released

14 December 2011, 2:43 pm
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ServerCHECK Mini II (Windows)

22 February 2012, 12:16 am
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Simple CSS3 Tooltips (Miscellaneous)

21 February 2012, 8:05 pm
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Network Merchants Inc Payment Gateway for Jigoshop (Jigoshop)

21 February 2012, 5:33 pm
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Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin (Sliders)

21 February 2012, 11:02 am
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Viral Lock PHP - Like, Google+1 or Tweet to Unlock (Social Networking)

21 February 2012, 10:47 am
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JS-Banner (WordPress)

21 February 2012, 9:49 am
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Easy Show & Hide for WordPress (Add-ons)

21 February 2012, 12:04 am
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Saloon - The jQuery Banner Rotator Plugin (Sliders)

20 February 2012, 8:23 pm
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Envatem - Easy Envato Items (Utilities)

20 February 2012, 4:01 pm
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Pdf to Image web gallery creator and tools (Images and Media)

20 February 2012, 12:06 pm
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Silicon - Premium Vanilla 2 Theme (Vanilla)

22 February 2012, 3:32 am
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SmoothDeal E-Mail Template (Email Templates)

21 February 2012, 8:13 pm
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Prometheus - A Responsive Business Template (Corporate)

21 February 2012, 7:00 pm
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Edgeless Coming Soon Portfolio PSD Template (Portfolio)

21 February 2012, 5:31 pm
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Minimal VCard (Virtual Business Card)

21 February 2012, 5:03 pm
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Mundus - Business and Portfolio HTML Template (Creative)

21 February 2012, 4:48 pm
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SwagMag - Magazine/Review Theme (Entertainment)

21 February 2012, 4:05 pm
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Elephant Web - Premium PSD Template (PSD Templates)

21 February 2012, 3:32 pm
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Alphapack - Premium WordPress Theme (Creative)

21 February 2012, 11:42 am
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Newport - Modern HTML Template (Creative)

21 February 2012, 9:45 am
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Synergy - XML Template with Deeplinking (Creative/Portfolio)

20 February 2012, 6:29 am
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Shapes from Ribbon Lines (Mouse Controlled)

20 February 2012, 4:22 am
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SOLID TIMELINE - XML Template (Site Templates)

19 February 2012, 2:14 pm
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TextLight (Effects)

18 February 2012, 3:41 pm
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SliceStack Slideshow (Banner Rotators)

18 February 2012, 1:51 pm
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Breakable Fence Prefab (Objects)

18 February 2012, 2:49 am
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Dart Wheel Flash Game (Shooting)

17 February 2012, 11:15 pm
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Light Rays Prefab (Objects)

17 February 2012, 7:04 pm
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Follow me on Twitter (Cartoons)

17 February 2012, 11:35 am
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Sam The Bubble Popper Game with Cheats and Adverts (Action)

17 February 2012, 4:56 am
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Church & State II: Discrimination

20 February 2012, 8:48 pm
In the United States, the American’s with Disabilities Act makes it illegal to discriminate against people based on their disabilities. Unless, apparently, the institution doing the discrimination is a church. A disabled woman who was teaching at a religious school …...

Religious freedom and religious privilege

19 February 2012, 11:16 am
I enjoyed reading Mike LaBossiere’s post entitled “Church & State: Immaculate Contraception”, but I can’t resist the impulse to add a post of my own – perhaps because I lack free will in the matter, but mainly because I devote …...

Church & State: Immaculate Contraception

17 February 2012, 7:36 pm
Back in 1914 Margaret Sanger included information about birth control in the June issue of her magazine, The Woman Rebel. She was arrested under the Comstock Law and her ally, the anarchist Emma Goldman, was soon after arrested for the same crime. …...

Mediums & Muses

13 February 2012, 11:05 pm
As I do every spring, I am teaching my Aesthetics class. As might be expected, one of the subjects I address is the nature of artistic creativity and the creation of the arts. Putting things rather simply (perhaps too simply) one …...

Soon-to-Haves

10 February 2012, 7:10 pm
I am working on a book on rhetoric and, as might be imagined, this year’s American political season has been a goldmine. Recently Mitch Daniels said “We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of …...

Is Education a Public Good?

8 February 2012, 8:29 pm
While higher education is generally regarded as a good (mainly because folks with college degrees make more than folks who lack such degrees), there has been considerable debate in the United States as to whether or not higher education is …...

Towers of Ivory, Towers of Gold

6 February 2012, 7:19 pm
Academics in general and philosophers in particular are often accused of dwelling in ivory towers that lift them out of the “real world” (which is, presumably, everything outside of academics). Being a philosophy professor, I do have some sympathy to …...

The Atheistâ��s Guide to Reality: An Interview with Alex Rosenberg

6 February 2012, 7:50 am
Reality, notes philosopher Alex Rosenberg, is “completely different from what most people think… stranger than even many atheists recognize.” And having spent some 40 years trying to work out “exactly how advances in biology, neuroscience and evolutionary anthropology, fit together …...

Corruption, Gravity & Litter

3 February 2012, 7:08 pm
The Daily Show recently featured an interesting interview with Yale Law School professor Jonathan Macey. One part of the interview that I found especially interesting was Macey’s “defense” of capital firms like Bain in terms of what seemed to be the necessity …...

Language Games: An Appeal On Behalf of Dave

31 January 2012, 10:23 am
“I’m going out with my pal Rick for a beer tonight, he’s got himself into a spot of bother with the police again. Fighting.” said Dave. I think for a minute: “Rick, I don’t think I know him do I?”. …...

Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

11 February 2012, 12:36 pm
Jeremy Bentham, legal reformer and philosopher, was an early Utilitarian. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews Bentham scholar and head of the Bentham Project, Philip Schofield about Bentham's contribution to moral philosophy. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibilityhttp

27 January 2012, 3:05 pm
What is criminal responsibility? Is it a timeless concept, or does it have a historical aspect? Nicola Lacey addresses these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0

16 January 2012, 7:36 am
Some atheists despise religion and ridicule it as absurd. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists, takes a more pragmatic line, arguing that atheists can learn a great deal from religion. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?http

1 January 2012, 10:17 pm
Metaphysics is the philosophical study of reality. But what does that mean in pratice, and what are the limits of what it can reveal? Kit Fine addresses the question 'What is Metaphysics?' in discussion with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction

18 December 2011, 1:29 pm
Is there a useful distinction to be made between analytic and continental philosophy? Brian Leiter thinks not. Listen to him in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

3 December 2011, 3:43 pm
What can Plato teach us about sustainability? According to Princeton's Melissa Lane, author of Eco-Republic, quite a lot. Melissa discusses this topic with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Tim Crane on Animal Minds

20 November 2011, 10:25 pm
What sort of minds do other animals have? Tim Crane discusses this intriguing question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Sean Kelly on Homer and Philosophy

5 November 2011, 4:07 pm
Homer is a great poet, but is he relevant to philosopy? Harvard University's Sean Kelly believes that he is and that we can glean important insights from studying Homer's work, insights about what it is to be human that might otherwise be overlooked. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....

Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism

23 October 2011, 5:41 pm
Are moral judgements simply relative to culture? Are moral relativists in the grip of a fundamental confusion, or is that just the view of a philosophical subculture? Paul Boghossian suggests that moral relativism is an untenable position in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy. ...

Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

9 October 2011, 7:41 am
Beliefs are important. Wars are fought over conflicting belief systems. Philosophers ask 'What is it reasonable to believe?' Can philosophers, then, give us any insights into what is going on when belief systems clash? Jonathan Glover discusses this issue with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy...

Updates

15 February 2012, 4:17 pm
I’ve added new versions of three new papers to my website. They are: The Role of Naturalness in David Lewis’s Theory of Meaning. Induction and Supposition. The Temporal Generality Problem. (This supersedes A reductio for reliabilism.) There are also a couple of summer courses I’ve been asked to announce. Problems of the Self at CEU. [...]...

Lewis on causation and biff

11 January 2012, 6:47 pm
I’ve been reading Lewis’s late papers on causation, and I can’t figure out how to make consistent some of the things he says in ‘Void and Object’ and some of the things he says in ‘Causation as Influence’. Here is one of the objections to applying the Canberra plan to causation that he offers in [...]...

Three Bits of News

9 January 2012, 5:52 pm
The Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference (aka the greatest conference on the annual calendar) has been announced for 2012. The deadline for submissions to this year’s Formal Epistemology Workshop (which will be in Munich in early summer) is in a few days. I’ve been using, and loving, John MacFarlane’s excellent program Pandoc. It is a [...]...

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Prize

19 December 2011, 4:55 pm
Sponsored by the Ammonius Foundation and administered by the editorial board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, the 2012 Younger Scholar Prize annual essay competition is open to scholars who are within ten years of receiving a Ph.D. or students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program. (Independent scholars should enquire of the editor to [...]...

Where are the philosophical baby boomers?

8 December 2011, 11:23 pm
Eric Schwitzgebel has a fascinating post about how little influence baby boomers have had in philosophy. He uses a nice objective measure; looking at which philosophers are most cited in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. He finds that of the 25 most cited philosophers, 15 were born between 1931 and 1945, and just 2 were [...]...

Games and Knowledge

11 November 2011, 8:54 pm
I’ve been interested recently in defending a particular norm relating knowledge and decision problems. To set out the norm, it will be useful to have some terminology. A decision problem is a triple (S, A, U) consisting of a set of states, a set of actions, and a utility function that maps state-action pairs to [...]...

Lecture Notes

31 August 2011, 8:34 pm
I’ve created a lecture notes page on my webpage. On that page, I’ve posted the notes I’ll be using for my decision theory class this fall. Philosophy 424 – Logic of Decision Notes These notes are something of a merger of the game theory notes I used over the summer, with the decision theory notes [...]...

Wolverine!

15 August 2011, 4:42 am
Starting January 1, Ishani Maitra and I will be starting new positions in the University of Michigan philosophy department. I’m going to be the inaugural Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy, which is an incredible honour. I’m really looking forward to being part of (another) great philosophy program. I’ve been incredibly impressed with the way [...]...

Lecture Notes on Game Theory

15 July 2011, 8:46 pm
Over the summer I did a short seminar series on game theory at Arché. I thought it would be worthwhile to post my notes from that seminar. The notes need some revising, particularly to take account of the points made in the previous post, but I hope that even in this form they’ll be of [...]...

Game Theory as Epistemology

15 July 2011, 8:12 pm
I taught a series of classes on game theory over the last few weeks at Arché. And one of the things that has always puzzled me about game theory is that it seems so hard to reduce orthodox views in game theory to orthodox views in decision theory. The puzzle is easy enough to state. [...]...

Stereotypes about Philosophy

18 February 2012, 4:30 pm
Please consider taking this 15 minute survey!...

Online Consciousness Conference 2012

18 February 2012, 2:33 pm
Readers of the blog may be interested in a number of papers from this year's Online Consciousness Conference. In addition to this year's keynote on the The Biological Cost of Consciousness by Bernard Baars, also check Peter Carruthers, Logan Fletcher,......

CFA: The Scope and Limits of Experimental Ethics

16 February 2012, 2:49 pm
We are organizing a workshop on "The Scope and Limits of Experimental Ethics" in Konstanz, Germany, September 20-22, 2012. We welcome contributions from all disciplines as long as the problem under investigation is of philosophical relevance. Besides our focus on......

Fellowships in Neuroscience and Society

14 February 2012, 3:11 pm
The Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society will host 12 neuroscience postdocs and graduate students for seminars, discussions and a short-term project in neuroethics. I thought this may be of interest to some of the readers of this blog. Here's......

The Manipulation Argument and the Deep Self

9 February 2012, 11:58 pm
Compatibilist philosophers often suggest that you act freely whenever your actions stem in the right sort of way from your own psychological states. (For example, they may say that you act freely to the extent that you act on your......

CFA: Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation

1 February 2012, 4:30 pm
Matthew Lindauer, Gilad Tanay, Thomas Pogge, Joshua Knobe and I are organizing a conference on the topic of what motivates people to act on their moral duties to aid the global poor. Our hope is that the conference will focus......

Factive Verbs and Protagonist Projection

31 January 2012, 12:58 am
Throughout most of the 20th century, the medical community knew that large amounts of stress causes stomach ulcers—or at least they though they did. In the 80s Dr. Barry Marshall, convinced that the medical community had it all wrong, infected......

Society for Philosophy of Agency

22 January 2012, 12:44 pm
The new website for the recently formed Society for Philosophy of Agency is now up here. The Society is now accepting applications for membership. Membership is free and open to graduate students, professional philosophers, and researchers working on issues about......

Doctoral or PostDoc position of interest

19 January 2012, 2:33 pm
Dr. Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich) offers under the usual equal opportunity conditions one doctoral researcher position OR one early postdoctorial researcher position (i.e., if the PhD is obtained after January 1, 2011) to work in......

CFP: Computational Models of Mindreading

9 January 2012, 3:35 pm
Hi everyone, I wanted to distribute another CFP on behalf of some friends for a special issue that looks to be of interest to lots of folks in this group! Enjoy, Fiery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Journal of COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH Call......

Joan Foster obituary

21 February 2012, 5:11 pm
My mother, Joan Foster, who has died aged 70, was a gifted and versatile teacher and local historian. Energetic and creative, she brought history to life for countless adults in Newcastle and shone a light on the lives of children in the north-east in the 19th and 20th centuries.Born in India, where her father was a lieutenant colonel, Mum spent her childhood in Yorkshire before reading history at Bristol University and moving to Newcastle to live with our father, David, who had begun his career...

Examiners could be banned from attending seminars with teachers

21 February 2012, 3:16 pm
Exam boards consider new curbs on examiners after claims that teachers were being tipped off about questionsExam boards are considering imposing strict new curbs on examiners in the wake of allegations that some are divulging to teachers the questions pupils will be asked.Mark Dawe, the chief executive of one of the country's leading exam boards, OCR, told MPs that in future examiners could be banned from attending seminars with teachers.Each year thousands of teachers go to seminars organised b...

Who'd be a headteacher in 2012?

20 February 2012, 8:00 pm
Ofsted head Michael Wilshaw's comment that 5,000 headteachers lack leadership comes at a time when it is already proving difficult to recruit heads due to a 'football manager mentality'"I wanted to be a headteacher because I knew it would be a fantastic job. As a teacher, you've got control over the 30 children in front of you in the classroom ... but as a head, you can shape the future for more than 1,000 children." That's the view of Francois Van Rensburg, now in his second year as headteacher...

How to teach â�¦ Sport Relief

20 February 2012, 6:45 pm
This week the Guardian Teacher Network has lots of resources to help you get pupils involved in Sport Relief fundraisingInspired by the build-up to Sport Relief – one of the UK's biggest fundraising events – and the London 2012 Olympics, the Guardian Teacher Network this week brings you a wealth of resources aimed at getting young people moving.This year, Sport Relief takes place from 23-25 March. For primary pupils, What is Sport Relief? is a great place to start. It contains an assembly sc...

Eleven treated in hospital after fatal French coach crash

20 February 2012, 11:35 am
Tests show driver was not under influence of drink or drugs when the coach flipped over near Reims, northern FranceEleven people remain in hospital in northern France after a coach crash involving 29 British schoolchildren and 13 adult supervisors on Sunday.A teacher, Peter Rippington, died in the accident near Reims, which happened as the party was returning from a ski trip.Six people were said to be seriously injured although their condition was not life-threatening, according to a local prose...

Academic ebooks can succeed but publishers must play their part

19 February 2012, 7:15 pm
The era of academic ebooks is imminent, says Jonathan Wolff, but there are still improvements to be madeSurprisingly, there comes a time in life when the discussion of house prices and the quality of the local schools loses its charm. One then turns to marvelling at the bargain price of off-the-shelf reading glasses and the not-unrelated question of whether it is legitimate to purchase a Kindle if you already own an iPad.The electronic revolution is edging its way into the classroom. The ebook i...

Agatha Christie cut down for language students

15 February 2012, 3:17 pm
New versions of 20 detective novels produced for 'upper intermediate' English language learnersFrom Queen of Crime to Queen of the Classroom: a new series of simplified, abridged Agatha Christie novels are set to introduce non-native English speakers to the glory of the British murder mystery.Publisher Collins has cut down 20 of Christie's detective novels – including Poirot's first case, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and Miss Marple's debut outing The Murder at the Vicarage – by 60%, sim...

Tim Beck obituary

14 February 2012, 3:15 pm
Tim Beck, who has died aged 49, was a polymath and bon vivant. I first met this distinctive and dishevelled figure quite by chance in 1988 in Bristol Craft Centre (now known as Centrespace). He liked to chat – and a cuppa in a cafe often turned into a voluble session in the pub. At closing time he delved into one of the many plastic bags he carried about him, hauled out a pile of papers – and announced that he had just completed a play, and would I read it? "It's a bit like Ibsen. Not as goo...

Attachment disorder: The families struggling to stay in control

14 February 2012, 2:07 pm
Families of violent and disruptive children with attachment disorder are finding that support for the condition is in short supplyOn a good day, Amy Robson's 14-year-old stepson James is just like any other teenage boy – he'll happily regale you with the latest footie scores or challenge you to a game on the PlayStation at his home in Cumbria. But on a bad day, the same teenager has been known to threaten classmates, attack teachers and even defecate in the classroom.Two years ago James was di...

Teaching council drop Miss Rusty case

14 February 2012, 1:00 pm
Relief for Leonora Rustamova as the General Teaching Council drops the case against herThe General Teaching Council has dropped its case against Leonora Rustamova, it has emerged this week.It said there was no case to answer against her. Rustamova said it has given her confidence to take her appeal against unfair dismissal, which will be heard by an employment tribunal at a later date. Although she had previously felt very cynical about the justice system, she added, the GTC decision has made he...

University graduates just as likely to be unemployed as school leavers with one GCSE

22 February 2012, 12:55 pm
New figures show 21-year-old university graduate as likely to be unemployed as 16-year-old with one GCSE....

Head teacher cleared over claims of violently restraining pupils

22 February 2012, 7:30 am
A former head teacher has described how his career was left in tatters after he was forced out of his job over false claims that he assaulted pupils....

You never forget a teacher - especially one like 'Mr Rip'

22 February 2012, 7:30 am
The memory of coach crash victim Peter Rippington will long remain with his pupils. Iain Hollingshead reports....

More teenagers will fail A-levels and GCSEs as exam system toughened up, warns Michael Gove

22 February 2012, 7:29 am
More teenagers will fail A-levels and GCSEs after the exams are toughened up and coursework scrapped, Michael Gove, the education secretary has warned....

Students told cross-dressing is as offensive as blacking up

22 February 2012, 6:28 am
Students at a leading university have been told not to dress in drag in case it offends transgender people....

How cross-dressing is an essential part of student rag week

22 February 2012, 6:26 am
Students at Exeter University have been told cross-dressing is offensive to transgender people - but history shows drag has been a part of student revelry for more than a century....

Religious education lessons 'dying out' in schools

22 February 2012, 6:00 am
Religious education is being undermined by a "crippling ambivalence" towards the subject in state schools, according to research published today....

Profit-making companies 'should run state schools'

22 February 2012, 6:00 am
Profit-making firms are making hundreds of millions of pounds from the state education system, according to new research....

Universities making 'background checks' on applicants

21 February 2012, 9:30 pm
Universities are increasingly employing data on teenagers' family and education background to hit tough Government targets to recruit more poor students, according to research....

University access tsar Les Ebdon will be monitored, says David Willetts

21 February 2012, 11:01 am
Universities minister promises that new controversial access tsar Les Ebdon will be "called to account" for his decisions....

Religious education lessons 'dying out' in schools

22 February 2012, 6:00 am
Religious education is being undermined by a "crippling ambivalence" towards the subject in state schools, according to research published today....

Profit-making companies 'should run state schools'

22 February 2012, 6:00 am
Profit-making firms are making hundreds of millions of pounds from the state education system, according to new research....

Russell Group attacks university admissions targets

20 February 2012, 4:39 pm
Leading universities clashed with the Government's new higher education access tsar today by criticising the imposition of controversial admissions targets....

Headmaster's voice: Are fees wasted if 'fair access' is the norm for universities?

20 February 2012, 2:06 pm
Former prep school head Peter Dix answers your questions. This week: university places for fee-paying pupils, homework issues and prefect duties....

University dons to vet A-level exam papers

19 February 2012, 7:40 am
School exam papers are to be vetted by university academics in a radical overhaul of the A-levels set by one of the country's biggest exam board...

Private schools fear 'social engineering' in university admissions

19 February 2012, 7:30 am
Professor Les Ebdon's selection as the new head of the university regulator has raised fears of "social engineering" among independent schools and elite universities. Julie Henry finds out why....

Numeracy campaign: your views on our Make Britain Count campaign

18 February 2012, 6:28 am
Academics, parents and teachers join the Telegraph's maths reform campaign....

State schools should fire up their best pupils - not ship them out

16 February 2012, 8:28 pm
Subsidising places at private schools is a Botox solution, says Martin Stephen....

Bounce-back classes to toughen up 'soft' youngsters

16 February 2012, 6:45 am
Thousands of British schoolchildren are to be given lessons in resilience amid claims they have gone "soft" and fail to cope with failure, it has emerged....

Dumbing down of state education has made Britain more unequal than 25 years ago

14 February 2012, 9:09 pm
Anti-elitist teachers are betraying the hopes of their pupils, says Toby Young....

Love Letter to New York: Classic LIFE Photos

On the Stump: Classic Photos From the Campaign Trail

Inside Hitlerâ��s Bunker: Unpublished Photos

Mardi Gras in 1938: Unpublished Photos

LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels

LIFE on Both Sides of the Camera: Alfred Eisenstaedtâ��s Surprising Self-Portraits

Eve Arnold: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

Steve McQueen: Unpublished Photos

Miles Davis: Unpublished Photos of a Jazz Giant

Jimmy Stewart: A Hero Home From the War

Flu papers warrant full publication

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
Although more debate is needed, the benefits of publishing sensitive data outweigh the risks that have so far been made public....

Turing at 100

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. He deserves your attention....

Over the line

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
Dishonesty, however tempting, is the wrong way to tackle climate sceptics....

The man behind the machine

Alan Turing is famous for many reasons. Andrew Hodges delves into why Turing's achievements took so long to be recognized....

Evolution: Lilliputian lizards come to light

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
The forests of northern Madagascar harbour a dwarf chameleon that is the smallest lizard in the world in terms of total length. Adult males of the diminutive Brookesia micra reach a length of less than 24 millimetres.B. micra and three other tiny...

Biophysics: Claustrophobic DNA in tug of war

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
When a long thin polymer such as DNA is forced into a confined space — say a small membrane channel — it loses some of its freedom, and hence its entropy. Regaining that entropy is a powerful driving force for escape.Chia-Fu Chou at the...

Cell signalling: Sideways activation

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
Elucidation of a cell receptor's crystal structure has revealed a unique lateral docking mechanism, report Hugh Rosen of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues.G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are signalling molecules that span the plasma membranes of cells and are generally...

Biology: Immunity's circadian link

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
Daily patterns in the body's biochemical and physiological processes called circadian rhythms may influence immune-system function. Erol Fikrig and his colleagues at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, have found that the expression of an immune protein called TLR9 rises and falls with the circadian...

Stem-cell biology: Restore my beating heart

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
Infusions of a patient's own cardiac stem cells may reduce scar tissue and promote heart-muscle growth after a heart attack, according to a small safety study. Eduardo Marbán of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, California, and his colleagues harvested heart cells from 17...

Genomics: Loss-of-function found in droves

22 February 2012, 12:00 am
Genome-sequencing work has suggested that even healthy humans carry hundreds of 'loss of function' (LoF) mutations that seriously disrupt protein-coding genes. Daniel MacArthur at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, and his colleagues performed extensive analysis on 185 genomes and determined that a...

High-Tech Bridge announces capital increase and adapted expansion strategy for 2012

7 February 2012, 9:02 am
High-Tech Bridge increases its nominal share-capital to CHF 3M and announces its development strategy for 2012....

High-Tech Bridge partners with LODHâ��s E-MERGING Platform

1 December 2011, 8:14 am
High-Tech Bridge is proud to announce partnership with Lombard Odier’s E-MERGING....

High-Tech Bridge joins Online Trust Alliance

1 November 2011, 11:11 am
High-Tech Bridge joins Online Trust Alliance (OTA) as a General Member....

High-Tech Bridge joins OWASP as Supporter Organization

19 October 2011, 9:25 am
High-Tech Bridge joins Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) as Supporter Organization....

High-Tech Bridge joins PCI Security Standards Council

26 September 2011, 3:48 pm
High-Tech Bridge joins PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) as a Participating Organization....

New Members at Advisory Board

6 September 2011, 12:39 pm
High-Tech Bridge has elected the official legal representative and new Advisory Board members....

High-Tech Bridge invests in R&D

16 March 2011, 12:51 am
High-Tech Bridge increases equity capital to CHF 2m and announces expansion on Swiss and International IT Security markets....

New Board member at High-Tech Bridge

2 February 2011, 9:44 pm
High-Tech Bridge Board of Directors has elected a new member for 2011....

New Expert Services of High-Tech Bridge

11 January 2011, 3:28 pm
Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering expert services are now available for our customers....

High-Tech Bridge obtains ISO 27001 certification

20 December 2010, 11:00 pm
After capital increase and reinforcement of Management High-Tech Bridge has successfully obtained ISO 27001 certification....

La Banque Suisse: High-Tech Bridge Investit

22 February 2012, 11:59 am
High-Tech Bridge Investit...

PenTest Magazine Extra, No.2: Interview with Marsel Nizamutdinov

15 February 2012, 3:47 pm
Interview with Marsel Nizamutdinov...

Market: High-Tech Bridge - Contrer les forces du mal

15 February 2012, 3:45 pm
High-Tech Bridge - Contrer les forces du mal...

8 February 2012, 4:23 pm
Développement de la gamme de services...

23 January 2012, 5:32 pm
Entre manif et révolution, Anonymous multiplie les attaques...

Handelszeitung: Wirtschaftsinformationen - Wer die Konkurrenzschlagen will, muss wissen, was diese vorhat.

23 January 2012, 9:33 am
Wirtschaftsinformationen - Wer die Konkurrenzschlagen will, muss wissen, was diese vorhat....

PenTest Magazine: XSS & CSRF: Practical exploitation of post-authentication vulnerabilities in web applications.

18 January 2012, 11:40 am
XSS & CSRF: Practical exploitation of post-authentication vulnerabilities in web applications....

Swiss Banking YearBook 2011-2012: Investing into your corporate security is like paying your insurance.

29 December 2011, 12:35 pm
Investing into your corporate security is like paying your insurance....

20 December 2011, 2:57 pm
High-Tech Bridge et la Sécurité Informatique....

Yahoo! News: High-Tech Bridge Nominates Marsel Nizamutdinov as Head of R&D.

6 December 2011, 1:11 pm
High-Tech Bridge Nominates Marsel Nizamutdinov as Head of R&D....

[HTB23076]: Multiple vulnerabilities in Elefant CMS

22 February 2012, 1:16 pm
Product: Elefant CMS v1.1.3 betaVulnerability Type: SQL Injection, XSS (Cross Site Scripting)Risk level: Medium Creater: Elefant CMSVendor Notification: 2012-02-22 14:16:07Public Disclosure: 14 March 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 14 March 2012...

[HTB23073]: Multiple XSS in Chyrp

21 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: Chyrp v2.5b1Vulnerability Type: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)Risk level: Medium Creater: ChyrpVendor Notification: 2012-02-01 13:05:09Public Disclosure: 22 February 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-1001Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Chyrp, which can be exploited to perform Cross Site Scripting attacks. 1) Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Chyrp: CVE-2012-1001 1.1 Input passed via the "content" POST parameter to /incl...

[HTB23075]: Multiple XSS in Fork CMS

15 February 2012, 12:03 pm
Product: Fork CMS v3.2.5Vulnerability Type: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)Risk level: Medium Creater: Fork CMSVendor Notification: 2012-02-15 13:03:31Public Disclosure: 7 March 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 7 March 2012...

[HTB23072]: Multiple vulnerabilities in LEPTON

14 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: LEPTON v1.1.3Vulnerability Type: Local File Inclusion, SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS)Risk level: High Creater: LEPTON ProjectVendor Notification: 2012-01-25 13:48:34Public Disclosure: 15 February 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-0998, CVE-2012-0999, CVE-2012-1000Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in LEPTON, which can be exploited to perform Local File Inclusion, Cross Site Scripting and SQL Injection attacks...

[HTB23071]: Multiple vulnerabilities in 11in1

14 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: 11in1 v1.2.1 stable 12-31-2011Vulnerability Type: Local File Inclusion, Сross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Risk level: High Creater: 11in1Vendor Notification: 2012-01-25 13:48:26Public Disclosure: 15 February 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-0996, CVE-2012-0997Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in 11in1, which can be exploited to perform Local File Inclusion and Сross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. 1) Local File...

[HTB23074]: Multiple XSS in Dotclear

8 February 2012, 11:44 am
Product: Dotclear v2.4.1.2Vulnerability Type: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)Risk level: Medium Creater: DotclearVendor Notification: 2012-02-08 12:44:58Public Disclosure: 29 February 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 29 February 2012...

[HTB23070]: Multiple vulnerabilities in ZENphoto

7 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: ZENphoto v1.4.2Vulnerability Type: PHP Code Execution, SQL Injection, XSSRisk level: High Creater: ZENphotoVendor Notification: 2012-01-18 12:23:20Public Disclosure: 8 February 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-0993, CVE-2012-0994, CVE-2012-0995Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in ZENphoto, which can be exploited to perform arbitrary PHP code execution, sql injection and cross site scripting attacks. 1) Arbitrary PHP ...

[HTB23069]: Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenEMR

31 January 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: OpenEMR v4.1.0Vulnerability Type: Local File Inclusion, Arbitrary Command ExecutionRisk level: High Creater: OEMRVendor Notification: 2012-01-11 11:08:05Public Disclosure: 1 February 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-0991, CVE-2012-0992Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in OpenEMR, which can be exploited to perform local file inclusion and arbitrary command execution attacks. 1) Multiple Local File Inclusion vulnerabil...

[HTB23068]: Multiple vulnerabilities in OSclass

24 January 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: OSclass v2.3.3Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection, XSS (Cross Site Scripting)Risk level: High Creater: osclass.orgVendor Notification: 2012-01-04 14:53:54Public Disclosure: 25 January 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-0973, CVE-2012-0974Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in OSclass, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and sql injection attacks. 1) SQL Injection in OSclass: CVE-2012-0973. Input passed ...

[HTB23067]: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) in DClassifieds

24 January 2012, 11:00 pm
Product: DClassifieds v0.1 finalVulnerability Type: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)Risk level: Low Creater: www.dclassifieds.euVendor Notification: 2012-01-04 14:53:48Public Disclosure: 25 January 2012 CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-0990Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerability in DClassifieds, which can be exploited to perform Сross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. The application allows authorized users to perform certain actions via HTTP...

Live webchat: Jeanette Winterson at A Room for London

22 February 2012, 4:31 pm
The author will be here on 24 February from 1-2pm to take part in a live Q&A. Post your questions nowJeanette Winterson will be the second author to join us for a live webchat from A Room for London. For four days each month an author takes up residency in the boat which teeters on the edge of the Southbank Centre, London, enjoys the peace and quiet, writes a specially commissioned piece and on this occasion, puts aside an hour to answer your questions.Jeanette needs no introduction, she is publ...

Performance poetry - your reviews

21 February 2012, 3:27 pm
You asked: Can we have an open thread for performance poetry?Last week, books site regular DanHolloway said:I'd love to see more poetry [on the site], and especially from outside the confines of the recognised poetry presses – dare I say it even more (any?) performance poetry. The talking head poetrycast series was great but a real missed opportunity to include at least one performance poet (with a straight to-camera there really is no place to hide and some of those readings really did demons...

Tips, links and suggestions: the books we're reviewing this week

21 February 2012, 9:38 am
Tips, links and suggestions: the books we're reviewing this week and our favourite reader reviewsEach week we publish a list of some of the books our critics will be reviewing during the week, and invite you to tell us what you're reading and reviewing on the site. Last week, many of you did just that.HeleneM told us that she was reading Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest, dirtywhitecandy, although published a while ago was reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, and SeaGrassLight 'ventured ...

Redesigning Lord of the Flies

18 February 2012, 3:30 pm
A competition inviting teenagers to come up with a new cover for William Golding's classic novel produced some stunning resultsThe cliché warns you should not judge a book by its cover. But can you judge a cover through what you already know about a book? That is what Judy Golding, William Golding's daughter and author in her own right, Eleanor Crow, senior designer at Faber, graphic artist Neil Gower and Kate Abbott, art and design editor at the Guardian, were about to find out.Their task was...

The 100 best children's books. Really?

16 February 2012, 5:26 pm
A new ranking of the greatest children's books has some welcome surprises, but there are of course some glaring omissionsWhat cheering news, to discover this morning that EB White's heart-wrenching, wonderful story of a spider and a pig, Charlotte's Web, has topped a US list of the best 100 children's books, edging out more modern fare from JK Rowling and Suzanne Collins. The list, compiled by Parent & Child Magazine editors after 500 titles were suggested by literacy experts and "mum bloggers" ...

How to name a publisher

16 February 2012, 3:25 pm
Three new publishers make clear the dilemmas facing anyone trying to brand a new imprint"Coming up with a name was far more difficult than we expected," says co-founder Rosalind Porter of the birth-pangs of new publishing venture Union Books, also headed by Alex Clark and David Graham and due to be launched next week. "The three of us went round in circles for months pushing our favourites.Alex's Bloomsbury sensibility informed all her suggestions; David's love of dogs was never far from his; I ...

What you're reading â�� in pictures

16 February 2012, 12:42 pm
We asked our readers show us what they've been reading. Here's a selection of the photos they submitted to our Flickr groupGuardian readers ...

The 100 greatest novels re-covered

16 February 2012, 10:43 am
Belgian artist Tom Haentjens is encouraging readers to redesign the covers of the Observer's list of all-time best fictionThe Observer's 100 greatest novels of all timeAbout seven years ago, as a Sunday newspaper stunt, I compiled for the Observer a list of all-time great fiction. Obviously, the list was shaped by my reading preferences, but it also contained a measure of informal polling. In other words, I asked about 100 colleagues on the Observer for their nominations, and developed the list ...

Are books and the internet about to merge?

15 February 2012, 4:00 pm
The difference between ebooks and the internet is minimal, and we should be glad the two are growing closer and closerIt's easy to forget that the world wide web as we know it today evolved from an early attempt to put books on the internet. When Tim Berners-Lee envisaged what would become the world wide web, it was with the idea of making academic papers and other documents widely available. To this end he devised a simple way of laying out text and images on a page, inventing what we now call ...

Unusual suspects: Literary photo-fits

15 February 2012, 12:39 pm
An intriguing web project is using forensic profiling techniques to picture fictional charactersBrilliant, and refreshingly unsentimental in the wake of Valentine's Day: a project launched by author Brian Joseph Davis in which he uses "law enforcement composite sketch software" to producing images of literary characters, based on their creators' descriptions.He's set up a tumblr entitled The Composites, and is inviting the rest of us to submit suggestions for lines that would lend themselves to ...

One of Life's Players

Description: This is an experimental short which was shot on Super8, it is based around a prose I wrote a few years ago. Written in the prose are a number of quite upfront and powerful statements. "in the circle of life we co-exist with an assemblage of unadulterated attractions and fascinations". Through the diverse and haunting beauty of film we wanted to depict images that an audience can relate to events in there lives and the surrounding world we live in. It has not plot and perhaps ...

Whittle On

Description: A community based documentary that explores the influential history of the English market town, of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. The intention of the film was to create an awareness and to celebrate the influential past of the town, exploring the folk that have worked and resided in Lutterworth. In doing this film takes a look at the how the town has in the past shaped the world we live in today. Whittle On talks about Sir Frank Whittle who worked tirelessly at Lutterworth'...

Crocus

Description: an experimental sequence by DANIEL G HUGHES © 2009 an experimental sequence by DANIEL G HUGHES © 2009 During the Spring I came across beautiful Crocus spread accross the ground in St Mary's Church, Lutterworth. I just had to capture them on camera, be it still or moving image. I basicly shot this footage and made a short sequence out of it. Duration: 00:00:10 / Uploaded: 2010-12-06 07:17:43...

The Seat of Knowledge

Description: This project was produced whilst on an educational programme whilst studying on the ND in Media Production course at NWHC. Duration: 00:07:48 / Uploaded: 2010-11-20 19:52:46...

Matutinus

Description: Matutinus (early in the morning) is an experimental short, which I wrote to depict the start of a day and how it can start off really well and can go onto to turn out bad. Images of people going about their daily business go into the not so 'fluffy bunny' images of graveyards, domestic arguments and civilised madness. At this time of the day the landscape can be transformed into a somewhat mesmerising atmosphere and can in a way it can be the calm before storms ahead. As the ...

War is Peace

Description: War is Peace was a title sequence that I produced a number of years ago. Although a bit rough I still really like it and hope you do too. Duration: 00:00:51 / Uploaded: 2010-11-20 19:29:48...

Strawberry Stone Intro

Description: This is a simple flash flv video that is used on the Strawberry Stone website. It was made with After Dark, an Adobe animation package. Duration: 00:00:30 / Uploaded: 2010-11-19 19:23:48...

Hobo

Description: Hobo; a thought provoking drama short about an abusive home-life that can often lead to homelessness. Duration: 00:04:36 / Uploaded: 2010-11-20 19:43:49...