Video: See where the Internet lives

Nice data centre tour, from CNET.

Justin sells out

Damn fool man went and got himself hitched! Will the madness never end?

(Congrats Justin. Silly man.)

I know where you’ve been!

Actually I don’t, but this interesting exploit, explained badly here, suggests that anyone you visit could.

On the face of it there’s no inherent danger, sure at worst your local stat-obsessed self-publisher (ahem) or the marketing twat for a cash-starved Web 2.0 company could generate stats from this as a service, but they’re just going to be aggregated, right?

But don’t forget the environment we’re living in these days, where Gov.us is taking whole US states to court to stop them forcing telcos to admit that they spied on American citizens, Gov.uk can throw you in jail if you forget your crypto key, and of course Gov.ie sez All Yore Data Are Belong To Them (sorry) and really, eVoting is cool and you can trust them with it.

Don’t even get me started on the religious right, currently trying to stop hotels in the US from allowing their customers to view porn, and who I have no doubt will start resurfacing in a big way in Ireland Real Soon Now.

So given the way we’re going, it’s not hard to imagine one of these right-wing nutjob governments “recommending” that sites install a listener for them, monitoring at the outset for visits to known dodgy sites, say terrorist and paedophile hangouts. Then comes the black box, and we don’t know what they’re storing.

Ok, you’re right, it sounds like a stretch. But they’re already doing it with your phones in Ireland boys and girls, in fact they don’t just know who you’ve been talking to, they know where you’ve been, every hour of the day your phone is turned on.

Is it turned on now? Where have you been in the last few days?

What colour blind people see

I’ve often wondered, and now I know!

Brew that man a pot of Barrys

MacNN | Dublin man plans Apple “walk of shame”
Following a week of waiting for Apple to arrange for the pickup of a malfunctioning iMac G5, a Dublin says he has decided to prove that he can walk to Cork — the location of the nearest Apple repair center — faster than Apple can arrange for the pickup of his broken Mac. “I think there comes a time when the only thing that works with these companies is to show them up publicly and shame them into taking you seriously,” said Karl Hayden, who is frustrated after repeated efforts to resolve the issue with Apple customer care.

Well said Karl! Great to see an Irishman taking the bull by the horns and actually doing something about the woeful customer service we experience (in every sector), instead of just bitching about it to friends and family like the majority. Karl, if you’re out there, email me an ETA and I’ll be up in Hollyhill waiting for you with a flask of tea!

SoaP

SoaP I really can’t put the title in a post, it would just be too hip. (Bad hip, not good hip.) TBH I don’t want to post about SoaP at all, for the aforementioned reason, but I had to point this article out, because it’s the most sensible thing I’ve seen written about it. Not that the entire situation isn’t funny; it is, it’s just too hip. Like I said. I may cruise Digg, but its soooo last week, you know? ;)