links for 2008-08-16

"Walthamstow without the stadium is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower" - Barry Clegg perhaps going a little over-the-top there, but today is a sad day as yet another local E17 landmark closes for the last time. I paid my last respects back in June.

"Last weekend, I was with a hardcore copyright conservative who kept arguing that people watching the opening ceremonies online were cheating NBC out of money. I countered that what these people were doing was indicating what the market wanted. Many were happy to watch the Chinese CCTV version live instead of waiting until what NBC declared to be 'primetime'".

"I believe that the idea of God has been a disaster for humanity, and any person who bases their morality on the writings of hallucinating pre-modern nomads is going to have pretty warped values". Amen to that. If you'll excuse the phrase...

"Philippe Kahn shares that it's a statistical fact that people with larger feet are better spellers. Why? 'It's because people with bigger feet are older'". With that in mind, this is nevertheless an interesting glimpse into where the interest in SEO lies in the world.

"The system has been developed in partnership with multimedia technology firm Apture, which has implemented a similar feature on the news pages of WashingtonPost.com."

Steve Hermann with the official line on the BBC's in-text links - the trial is apparently limited to four weeks.