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GMail has integrated Fetchmail, so you can slurp in your other other mail accounts, rather than having to configure them all to forward to GMail.

BPI publishes advertisement pushing for copyright terms extension. Features 4,000 “signatures” from musicians. Some of which are pushing up the daisies and whose petition-signing skills should be held in awe.

“Having “community” is extremely important; far more so than our productivity.”

Raving Rabbids is by far my favourite Wii game. This promo clip does a good job of showing why. (If only I could find a second Wiimote so Joy & I could play together!)

Tracking the popularity of the competing blue-laser DVD formats by comparing Amazon data. Very smart. HD-DVD is winning at the moment. (Wonder if that’s just because people getting HD TVs are searching for “DVD HD”?) Let’s see how the PS3 affects this.

Of course they do. And when I was a kid, we used tape-to-tape decks. Just because this is using shiny new Bluetooth technology doesn’t mean it can/should be stopped. Surprisingly, the BPI take a rather sane approach: “Ultimately the way to grow revenues with mobile will be to offer music fans what they want and encourage them to get their music legally.”

There are currently four posts on the Twitter public timeline (including one from me) saying “Reading Kathy Sierra’s article on Twitter”. The lower graphic on “flow” is alarmingly true for me.

MS try to avoid the “Volume License Key” fiasco of XP (if you used FCKGW, or another volume key to install XP, you didn’t have to go through “activation” - ie. phoning into their servers) by not issuing volume keys for Vista. Instead, they created a server that enterprises could run, and installations of Vista would phone into local servers. Someone gets hold of said server, creates a VMWare image, voila! Anyone can install Vista without having to activate! Cat, meet mouse. Mouse, meet cat. Fight!

Interesting article on the architecture and design decisions behind mailinator.com, your local friendly low-hassle disposable email address site.

The awesomeness that *is* the British 3-Pin Plug. The article covers most of the beautiful design decisions, such as the longer earth pin (so earth is the first connection made when you plug it in) and the cable being attached to the bottom, so you’re less tempted to pull the plug by yanking the cord. Well done British Standards chaps!

Another series of Dunkin Donuts commercials featuring music by They Might Be Giants has started hitting the air. This is my current favourite.

FoxTrot strip is going Sundays-only after the end of this year. This makes me sad, as it is one of the few genuinely funny comic strips in syndication today (Doonesbury being my other favourite).

Attempts to convince co-workers that we need one of these in our lab have thus far proven unsuccessful.

Use your Wiimote as a mouse on a Mac.

God uses a Mac, apparently. A funny list, made funnier by details like “Jesus Baby Pictures” on the desktop.

“An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word literally”. Because that drives me hopping mad. Literally.

That feeling you get from the “I’m a Mac” adverts that you like the PC more than the Mac? That’s what Apple want you to feel.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Wii.

Former baseball player finds a box of fan mail from 1991 while cleaning his garage, and replies to them!

I have succumbed to the temptations of HDTV. Got what I consider to be “a steal”. I ♥ Costco.

Wonderful! A lightweight implementation of the Firefox-only Firebug javascript debugger which you can embed into your pages for cross-browser debugging.

Hamster trapped in an 8-bit video game. It’s like Tron. But with a hamster.

Set-up for what certainly seems to be a hatchet-job on Bose, but it does include the superb introduction “Bose is sort of the Hillary Clinton of tech — you either love them or hate them, and they’ve got lots of cash.”

Thumbnail image of the target website appears when you hover over a link. Installing this on groovymother.com out of curiousity.

New movie from the folks behind Shaun of the Dead and Spaced. Looks pretty danged good, too.

Happening in Cambridge in January. I’ll probably attend.

BitTorrent.com will host torrents for any file on the web you point them to. I didn’t realise that you could use HTTP to seed torrents — that’s a pretty cool way of bootstrapping.