Well, I’ll be. Wired just printed a story admitting that the story they did about toothing (picking up partners for casual sex by sending messages to Bluetooth enabled mobile phones) was a hoax. They even have a link to a blog belonging to one of the people who engineered the hoax. What amazes me is that a search of the BBC news site doesn’t produce any results at all. I wonder if they saw the story and decided it wasn’t true or just didn’t notice it in the first place, or maybe they did do the story and have just deleted it rather than print a retraction.
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Here’s a cool little script that estimates your gender based on the sites you’ve visited. How does it know where you’ve been? Now there’s the question.
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If the main division in modern politics is between liberal and authoritarian then I am a liberal and if David Davis was standing against Labour in my constituency on the issue of 42-days I don’t see how I could vote Labour. That makes me very sad.
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Would you believe that an adjustable spanner is called, in French, a Clé Anglaise? English Key. What are they getting at?
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Counting every sneeze! Pete Fletcher thinks he can do it. He’s up to 562 already. I hope he doesn’t have hay fever. sneezecount.joyfeed.com
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The BBC Model B was the first computer I wrote music on. In fact I wrote my own sequencer and made my own midi interface. Now the Science Museum have made an exhibition about it. I don’t know why this makes me feel so sad.
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ryc: thanks for coming by. what you commented reminded me about the incomprehensible dynamics that exist between God and man… man and man. what a big, yet small, world we live in!
Thanks for that link anonymous benefactor. I should have known it was too good to be true. Those poor saps at News Online were just bound to fall for it. I suppose I was just being too optimistic.