Writing in today’s Guardian, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is understandably happy to hear that McDonald’s are closing twenty-five of their UK branches. Even McDonald’s European boss, Denis Hennequin, is struggling to put a happy face on the situation: “The UK has been in negative territory for a couple of years now,” he admitted. “The brand 15 years… Continue reading I’m Loving It
Author: Dave Cross
Give Me Liberty
Rachel from North London sums up what a lot of us are thinking and plugs the new Liberty Central web site.
Album Covers
If you’re feeling a bit bored then please help us tick off the last few album covers on this photo.
Secular Synchronicity
Since watching Richard Dawkins’ The Root of All Evil? I’ve noticed myself becoming less tolerant of religious beliefs. I really think that it’s time for rational thinkers to stand up and be counted. I’ve been discussing this with a few friends, but within my circle of friends that’s largely… er.. preaching to the converted. On… Continue reading Secular Synchronicity
Universally Acknowledging Truths
Argh. They’ve done it again. A truth which has the downside of keeping many true artists poor in garrets and many false ones rich in mansions was universally acknowledged yesterday. (Pride, prejudice and happiness: readers choose favourite endings – Guardian) Is it too much to ask that just once a journalist can write an article… Continue reading Universally Acknowledging Truths
Working At Goohoo!
So Lloyd is leaving Guardian Unlimited to go back to Yahoo!. From what I’ve seen over the last few months, I predict that it’ll only be about another eighteen months before everyone in the web industry will be working for either Google or Yahoo!
O’Reilly Network
Those fine people at O’Reilly Media (publishers of such excellent books as Perl Template Toolkit) have offered me the chance to write on one of their blogs. I’m now a contributor to their OnLAMP blog and you’ll be able to see all of my entries here. Not quite sure what I’ll be covering over there,… Continue reading O’Reilly Network
Copyright vs The Holy Grail
I really don’t understand why the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail are suing Dan Brown for using their ideas. Surely if you have a good idea then you’e happy if other people publicise it too. Maybe they just don’t like their work being associated with something quite as trashy as The… Continue reading Copyright vs The Holy Grail
Tony Blair – Protector of Liberties
According to Tony Blair writing in yesterday’s Observer he doesn’t destroy liberties, he protects them. The whole article is riddled with half-truths and reinterpretations of history. Luckily enough Blairwatch have produced a point by point deconstruction of what Blair wrote.
Giving Software Away
An interesting story from Gervase Markham (who works for the Mozilla Foundation) which demonstrates that the concept of Open Source software is still confusing to a large proportion of the population. A little while ago, I received an e-mail from a lady in the Trading Standards department of a large northern town. They had encountered… Continue reading Giving Software Away