“A leading US digital rights campaign group has warned against using Google software which lets people organise and find information on their computers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the latest version of Google Desktop posed a risk to privacy. ” BBC
Monthly Archives: February 2006
What’s your nearest tube station really called?
Mr Abbott get your rosaries off my ovaries
“It’s not the T-shirt that needs changing, it’s the prime minister’s attitude, which we are seeing increasingly is about bringing fundamentalist religious views into the parliament.”
“Online reference site Wikipedia blames US Congress staff for partisan changes to a number of political biographies.
Computers traced to Capitol Hill removed unpalatable facts from articles on senators, while other entries were “vandalised”, the site said.” (BBC)
Looks like Google’s China deal has taken effect:
Check out http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen versus http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
“Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet. And yet this ideological model remains the central organising principle of our lives, and as long as it continues to be so it will automatically undo (with its invisible hand) every single green initiative anybody cares to come up with.” (Age)
“Luxury car maker BMW has had its German website blacklisted by Google after it was caught trying to artificially boost its popularity ranking on the world’s leading internet search engine.” (Age)
Happy Pride, Melbourne!