links for 2008-01-24
by Martin Belam, 24 January 2008
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"I wish Coe would abandon the pretence that the Olympics are going to have a meaningful legacy. We know the £500m stadium is going to be converted into a stadium for those giants of football, Leyton Orient". Thus freeing up Brisbane Road for housing, no?
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"I can't take it terribly seriously who answers you back - it's the sort of people you would get answering back in a bar chat". As opposed to your 'proper' readers, I presume, who would never engage in that tawdry bar chat sort-of-thing ;-)
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"The relationship it assumes with its users is somewhere between condescending and insulting. That's not in the 1 sentence spec - but just as importantly, it's not obvious it's missing if you start with a purely functional approach to service design".
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"Overall it was a pretty awesome day but it needed a lot of planning. In my naivety I kind of figured everywhere would be set up for disabled access and it wouldn't even be an issue. Everything is a little bit more trouble, not much, but enough".
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"No film soundtrack released since 2004 passed a million sales. Meanwhile, the game industry is the king of soundtracks at the moment. The popular Electronic Arts game title Rock Band has sold an astounding 2.5 million tracks digitally".
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"Ask.com also shares information with third-party service providers. In spite of AskEraser being enabled, the user's search queries are kept on the servers of third-party companies. Those third parties include Google".
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"There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons". Paranoid much? Suggests you use some Google mirrors, that generate URLs that any decent Regex looking for search queries would identify anyway.
Half of Brisbane Road is already housing: they built a six-story apartment block on each corner each years ago.
But now they'll be able to do something about that pesky bit of green grass the League insist that they have at their ground ;-)
Sort of like Highbury for chavs, then...