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I did the exact same thing at reusableimages.com a few years back, but gave up due to lack of traffic and a growing sense of being out of my league. The site just uses Yahoo image …

Flashing LEDs on bicycles are legal, as of October 2005, providing they are of a sufficent intensity. The actual law (The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 2005) can b…

I suspect this must be a European thing then. I'm in London and I'd assumed that leaf blowers were a universal thing, and I had to google "supermarket bagger" - it seems like a wei…

No. It's never reasonable to prevent a record being made of the actions of a police officer. In the case of undercover officers, it is reasonable in some cases to to hide the fact …

It's worth mentioning that there is no point clicking on this link unless you happen to live in the United States.

You're right. I'm normally first in the Facebook-bashing line, but suggesting that Facebook should pay it's users because they provide network effects is like suggesting the phone …

In the long term, ugly, hard to use websites will loose. It can be a very long term in some cases. Just be patient.

You've got the nail on the head. Capatcha publishing sites are already weeding out the idiots who will jump through hoops to join and blog comment argument or whatever it is - now …

Also, the android Market is available in far fewer countries, and sometimes apps don't show up in different regions even when they have a Market there. This is not considering the …

It's not just a U.S. thing. I'm a UK father of 3 small boys, and it's a given over here that you should be very wary of interation with any child unless you have some kind of relat…

You're only considering one of the three parties; the spammer. Party #2 is the spammee: "they can always unsubscribe" shows a callous and naive disregard for the depth of the probl…

We're running HP-UX on PA-RISC and AIX on RS64. Don't know whether you can buy these architectures still, but these are real production machines in a datacentre.

This article argues seems to be suggesting that Google have a unique responsibility - almost as if they have somehow removed something that already existed. I disagree with their f…

Unless you have a distinctive name, and the internet gets a lot better at remembering over the long term, there's still nothing to worry about. Try finding anything from 10 years a…

Does anyone know if this affects Postini? We've switched once already this month - our new office was assigned an IP by C&W business that is in the same block as thousands of Virgi…

Just noticed the historical chart at the bottom. It seems that practice of releasing updates is definitely increasing - at the beginning of the year, the average version was actual…

That's very interesting - 3 months ago it was just 27%, and Eclair has been out over 9 months. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/only-27-3-of-android-phones... That's a pretty huge …

There's increasingly mainstream coverage of apps which are incompatible with almost every android phone out there - requiring 2.1 or even 2.2 like this does. I wonder how long it w…

The thing that those 3 have something in common with their search engine and Adwords; they all inspired the same initial reaction: "Someone's finally fixed what's wrong with incumb…

It's an ostentatiousness toy; I'm geniunely interested how it could function in any educational environment?

It doesn't seem strange to me that anything unique enough to be described as a hobby will have it's detractors. Even massively mainstream activities frequently attract meaningless …

"Spend a penny" is British slang for urinate. It started with coin-operated toilets and continues precisely because pennies are no longer spent individually on anything.

actual announcement: http://www.quakelive.com/#news/site_news/22

The same way you secure your wallet. I can't imagine why anyone would leave their laptop / phone / other device lying around. I go out and about in London, and I don't see anyone d…

The cost model to this is proven - there are MMOs that operate this way already, with monthly subscriptions but no upfront cost. EVE Online works like this - you start with a free …