Tag: Fun
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Twitter’s Jam Festival
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Andrew Orlowski
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Writing about Twitter is the journalistic equivalent of eating the fluff from your navel. The posh papers love it. Menopausal middle-aged hacks love it. The BBC is obsessed with it. Instead of telling us something we didn’t know before, Twitter makes churnalism so easy, it practically automates the entire job. The rest of the world,…
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NASA’s greatest clanger
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Andrew Orlowski
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Rights to the celebrated documentary The Clangers are changing hands. Often mistakenly described as “a children’s programme”, the 1970s series revealed for the first time the existence of an advanced knitwear-based lunar civilisation, knowledge of which has been suppressed by governments and space agencies ever since. Not only was the vast body of evidence of…
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Feds seize biker gang’s trademark
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Andrew Orlowski
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Federal investigators have hit a California biker gang where it hurts – by seizing the group’s trademark. The Mongols OutLaw Biker Gang [website] attracted the attention of the DoJ’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Department, with 61 indictments issued today. Search warrants were issued in six states yesterday, following a long undercover investigation. Gang members’ bikes…
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Ancient satire foretold AOL’s privacy disaster
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Andrew Orlowski
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“The Internet is becoming more and more widespread and will increasingly represent a scientific random sample of the population” – Joi Ito “Igor, to the machines – we have a sample” One thing seems to have been forgotten following AOL’s careless, but quite magnificent data dump of the internet’s “hive mind” at play this week.…
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Kevin Kelly: the first human/Martian hybrid?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Interbreeding between humans and aliens is a recurrent theme of science fiction – and late night talk radio. But could an example we’ve unearthed from near San Francisco, California, prove to be the first living example? Scientists have been able to identify human DNA for over 40 years. And here at The Register, we have…
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“The Government wants to copyright my thoughts!”
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Andrew Orlowski
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“They’re coming to take me away – ha haa!” – Napoleon XIV The Patient A student, Robert Soave writing in The Michigan, the student paper at the University of Michigan. Clinical Symptoms The patient is fearful: “The idea that information can be owned is quite terrifying” He also fears a loss of identity. Once something…