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A collection of 36 issues

Gore blimey

Congratulations to Al Gore (and the IPCC) for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I see that the BBC ‘most recommended comments’ page on the topic is, as always, full of right wing nuts. I wonder whether the right-wing noise machine that is the BBC Have Your Say feature is a

The Art of Wikigroaning

I don’t normally read SomethingAwful, but I do like the Art of Wikigroaning.

LOLTIME

The old sobersides at Time magazine try to explain lolcats, I can has cheezburger, in ur base killing ur d00ds, etc.

Web 2.0: digital Maoism

Bloggers come in for a bit of French stick in a series of articles at Le Monde. Apparently: Nous sommes victimes de “la résurgence d’une idée selon laquelle le collectif est le summum de la sagesse”. and a lot worse besides.

Facebook : MySpace :: Waitrose : Asda

Interesting article by Danah Boyd on Apophenia Blog (here), points out a growing social division between young MySpace and Facebook users. The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college.

Combatting Wi-Fi fears

Bill Thompson’s latest BBC article combats the ludicrous scare-mongering of the Sindy and others, who claim that Wi-Fi systems rot your brain, cause cancer, and are the reason for unsightly ear hair.

The Helvetica Meditations

A series of photos of Helvetica, the font of the 20th century, via MetaFilter. Update: A useful web design resource on the fonts real people have available is here. Also, a list of fonts you might want to use if you’re bored of Helvetica.

What is Web 2.0

A discussion on O’Reilly.net.

So Mr. Tiddles is out, then?

Did you know there’s official Internet guidance (an RFC) on what name you should give your computer?

Charlie Brooker on t'Internet

Not a debate, here.