“The [climate change] deniers seem to have a lot of money and influence, so let them put up the satellites and go crawlnig across the Earth’s surface gathering empirical data and let it be peer-reviewed.”

‘Don’t take novelists seriously’

“the Digital Economy Bill for focusing on illegal filesharing rather than on nurturing creativity and innovative business models”

“Freedom, creativity and the internet” – motion passed at LibDem conference

Keeping You Safe Ahh.. Tom Watson. Election propaganda at it’s finest.

“Last year’s 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m) prize was awarded to US President Barack Obama.
It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win.”

Internet ‘in running’ for Nobel Peace Prize

“DVD players don’t make fake whirring noises for five minutes before letting you eject a disc to simulate rewinding. Similarly, nobody should need to perform a full-width swipe gesture and wait two seconds for their fake page to turn in their fake book, and nobody should need to click the fake Clear button and start their calculation over because their fake calculator only has a one-line, non-editable fake LCD.”

Overdoing the interface metaphor

“Naturally, there was a hook to those recruitment ads, as Ms. Prelinger points out. The real business of most of those aerospace companies was not the space program but defense — building fighters, bombers, missiles and other implements of the cold war, not to mention commercial airliners. For many of these places, the space program was more of a hindrance than a boost to the bottom line, a sort of prestigious loss leader to attract cutting-edge talent.”

Reaching for Stars When Space Thrilled and Paranoia Ruled

“It’s hard to know what to be more nostalgic about, all those childhood dreams of space opera or the optimism of an era in which imagination and technology were booming and every other ad ended with a pitch to come work for the thriving company of the future.”

Reaching for Stars When Space Thrilled and Paranoia Ruled

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