Shane Richmond

It’s hard to believe but the Government last week stood up to lobbying by the music industry and a handful of pensionable pop stooges and turned down claims for a copyright extension from 50 years to 70 years for recorded music.
Last year the Gowers Report recommended against an extension but in May the committee for [...]

Three more books gone. Reviews of Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and JG Ballard’s Kingdom Come are all up at 26books.

Sometimes good comedy is just telling the truth. Here’s George Carlin on the ten commandments:

This man has far too much time on his hands but he’s very funny:
Be sure to check out the others too.

Over at the work blog last week I gave a recommendation for Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness. I was only 50 or so pages in at that point. Well, that turned out to be somewhat premature as you’ll see over at 26books.

… suffer their downfall. This is very funny:
Though I am slightly upset by the lack of apostrophes.

I’m surprised to find that, according to Gridskipper, London is Facebook’s second largest network. It’s been beaten by, oddly, Toronto. (I don’t know why I think that’s odd, it just would have taken me a long time to guess.)
So the top five is:

Toronto (640,000 members)
London (590,000)
Vancouver (280,000)
Norway (270,000)
New York (250,000)

Bah! New York is puny. They [...]

Two more down: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson and Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre have now been added to my list of books for 2007.

According to this little app my all-time Last.fm chart is 40 percent mainstream, while my listening last week 19 percent mainstream. There are of course a lot of flaws in the way this site works but it’s fun.
In other Last.fm news, the music site will now scrobble tracks played on your iPod if you’re a [...]