Posts by Mowds

Home Secretary swats away calls for Mosquito ban

As a yoof myself...

I'm not usually the loitering type, but whenever I see one of these things, I make a point of standing by it.

Legal highs now illegal

But what about...

But what about Cake? This menace still haunts our streets, and I demand action!

Google slaps barcodey stickers on Favourite Places

Surely...

Surely it would be better to display the opening times, prices etc on a poster, as it can be used by anyone with eyeballs, rather than merely those with a smartphone?

Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in three days

Piracy possibly higher because...

...Sims 3 is more popular than Spore was? Yes, more people have pirated it, but presumably a lot more people have bought it as well, meaning judging this kind of thing is an even less exact science.

Street View prowls the Emerald Isle

Sighting in Taunton too

It seems the all-seeing eye of Google is extending to the South West as well: I saw one of the sinister automobiles the other day just outside Taunton. Didn't have a camera on me though, so no picture for the mashup.

Facebook eliminates parts of Wales

Does it matter?

On Facebook, I set my location to the most Holy See, nobody seems to have noticed yet...

Lords say surveillance society erodes foundations of UK

I didn't know...

that NO2ID had raised enough money to hire a lord. What's the going rate for one of them these days, anyway?

Mine's the one with ideas for Bill amendments in one pocket, and cash in the other.

Obama-themed malware mauls world+dog

More intelligent...

...than my spam, which claims that, amongst other things, Obama is a woman and McCain has been spotted nude in public.

French police probe Sarkozy bank fraud

Disappointed

Judging from the headline, I was hoping for a story about Sarky being the perpetrator of fraud, not the victim.

Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids

Liberal innovations?

How is putting some bread into your own mouth rather than someone else doing it a liberal innovation? Really, do these people expect to be taken seriously?

Mines the one with the blasphemous statement written on it.

Virgin Galactic to save planet from climate change

Great, immediate challenges?

"To my mind there is no greater or more immediate challenge than that posed by climate change"

*cough* banking crisis *cough*

Phorm mulls incentives for ad targeting wiretaps

£1 off?

Stingy bastards...

Motorola gets down with the kids

Re: 'millennials'!?!

Joining you guys, but for the second reason. And I'd only really like more access to TV if good TV is actually made, not the crap that is currently spewed across our airwaves.