Archive (Page 6) • Dr. Matt Lee's Close Personal Friends • Buttondown

Matt and Nick arrived at The Clockface. It was a fairly standard town centre nightclub, but had a few things going for it… they didn’t make you dress like a...

Nick – Chapter Six

March 10, 2007

“So”, said Matt, “It starts to make sense now, right?” “Kind of”, replied Nick, lying to himself. “You’ve narrowed it down to one of three pubs in the city...

Nick – Chapter Five

March 10, 2007

Nick rang Ben. Ben could see it was Nick calling, and Ben was with a girl. “Nick! Stop calling me, you fucking crackhead.” “I’ll assume you’re with a girl...

Nick – Chapter Four

March 10, 2007

One can of lager, a quiche, one of those ghastly all-day breakfasts in tins and a change of trousers later, Nick started trying to piece all this together....

Nick – Chapter Three

March 10, 2007

Outside the flat was odd – with each step, Nick began to remember coming home. He could vaguely recall falling up the steps, knocking over the plant pot and...

myExperiment.org

March 9, 2007

myExperiment is a Virtual Research Environment which makes it easy for people to share experiments and discuss them. Scientists should be able to swap...

Was Steve Jobs’ blog on DRM a Pledge or a Prank?

March 7, 2007

One month ago, Steve Jobs pledged to ditch DRM on iTunes — if only those mean major labels would untie his hands. Well, here are three things that you can...

Why have cotton when you can have type II diabetes?

March 2, 2007

Why have cotton when you can have type II diabetes?

One Laptop Per Child Project and Free Culture Announce Free Music Project

March 2, 2007

Freeculture.org announces the launch of a new website, dedicated to sharing great free music, encouraging artists to release music under free licenses, and...

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ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern Web 2.0-style modal dialogs or even wizards sequences of dialogs without using conventional popups and...

BFI archives to be free to public

February 21, 2007

BBC News today… Britain’s national film and television archive is to be opened up in order for it to be accessed by the public Looks good, but then.....

List of vegetarian beers

February 21, 2007

Really good list of vegetarian beers

UK Government is Defective by Design

February 21, 2007

The government has rejected a call to ban the digital locks that limit what people can do with the software, music and movies they own. Of course, nobody...

The Chomsky Marr Interview

February 20, 2007

Interview with Noam Chomsky by Andrew Marr of the BBC. The Chomsky Marr Interview 1996

My mum in local paper

February 17, 2007

My mum got interviewed for the local paper back in Devon. Lorraine Lee sees herself as much more than a post office manager – she considers her role to be a...

Links for 2007-02-16

February 16, 2007

Workplace smoking bans may be good for workers’ health, but could open the back door to hackers. In a recent social engineering test, a tester was able to...

Shock at women goading toddlers

February 16, 2007

Footage of four women goading toddlers to fight has “stunned” police and social services in Devon. WTF?

Happy St Skeletor’s Day

February 15, 2007

St Skeletor’s Day is a non-commercial alternative to the corporate whorefest that is St Valentine’s Day. Each year, on February 15th, the festival of St....

Lazyweb, help me find a WordPress theme that doesn’t suck!

February 13, 2007

Dear Lazyweb, Please help me find a theme for my blog that doesn’t suck. I’m using WordPress 2.1, and the theme shouldn’t require JavaScript, and must use...

Often plays vendors or merchants

February 9, 2007

Michael G. Hagerty – why isn’t this guy in more stuff? He’s a great comic actor.

"So, this one time at uni…�

February 7, 2007

“…we made a mix, with me MCing, and put it online as ‘Michael Jackson – Thriller‘. Nobody downloaded it though.” Classic Alex.

Jesus Was Wrong

February 6, 2007

Jesus Was Wrong Yellow T-Shirt

Don’t compromise my freedom for a spiny cube

February 6, 2007

Say no to ATI and Nvidia. Don’t compromise my freedom for a spiny cube

why do i feel like this?

February 5, 2007

i wish i could explain why sometimes my head just makes me feel like everything’s going wrong, when things are okay. i have a new job, a new girlfriend and...

On how CNUK came to be

February 4, 2007

CNUK was born in late 1997, long before Creative Commons or the ideas of free culture were born. It was the personal website of Matt Lee, titled...

Nick – Chapter Two

February 4, 2007

The longer he sat by himself, the harder he tried to recall the events of the evening previous – it did little good and as Nick slipped in and out of his...

(Attribution: Beth’s birthday by matt_from_cnuk)

all the girls in leeds are so fucking ugly i might as well be gay

It was 3:07pm. Sunday afternoon. Nick woke up with a startle. His head hurt. While most Saturday nights were similar for Nick, this time had been different,...

Gratis Linux kernel driver development

January 30, 2007

Hopefully this will mean more free drivers and no more binary blobs. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux...

A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen

January 29, 2007

A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen

Just for Nick…

January 28, 2007

I see Rik Waller‘s got a new album out… It’s all covers though, which is a shame. From Wikipedia:- After his contract with EMI finished, Rik formed his own...

Full Power

January 26, 2007

full blame for finding this goes to mako

Digital World Norway Outlaws iTunes

January 26, 2007

Digital World Norway Outlaws iTunes This is a good thing. Maybe the cracks are already starting to show in DRM?

microleech

January 23, 2007

microleech is a way to try and convince your friends and loved ones to give you money for things you can’t afford Help send me to the FSF AGM in Boston in...

Battle of the operating systems

January 23, 2007

BBC have posted a story about the forthcoming Vista launch I posted the following. I don’t know if it’ll get posted. I use GNU/Linux for the simple reason...

NoBlobsByDefaultPetition – Ubuntu Wiki

January 22, 2007

NoBlobsByDefaultPetition – Ubuntu Wiki – a petition to ask that Ubuntu not ship with binary blobs by default.

Matt Lee

January 20, 2007

This was taken in Vienna at the Plone conference in 2005 (Attribution: Matt Lee by salimfadhley)

help! I’m surrounded by dancing twats

January 19, 2007

this is how i’m spending my fridays now. speargun wanted. will pay reasonable price.

The Local – The Pirate Bay plans to buy island

January 18, 2007

The Pirate Bay plans to buy island Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international...

DJ Drama Arrested

January 18, 2007

In the world of hip-hop few music executives have more influence than DJ Drama. His â€œGangsta Grillzâ€? compilations have helped define this decadeâ€™s...

Links for 18/01/07

January 18, 2007

Improve your forms using HTML5! – HTML hasn’t really been updated since HTML version 4 was released back in 1998. However, the WHATWG community has been...

Driverless Bus

January 18, 2007

A model of a driverless bus is to go on display at the Science Museum in London. Its designers, Capoco systems, said the bus would use magnets embedded in...

Mark Shuttleworth – Keeping it FREE

January 18, 2007

The dream for me is to be able to keep free software free of charge for the people who want it on those terms. To have people sharing the same high quality...

Weirdest Japanese product ever

January 18, 2007

Yes, it appears to be an inflatable swan you can wear on your trousers! (Attribution: Weirdest Japanese product ever by Greg Jagiello)

A life without JavaScript

January 18, 2007

So, I’ve taken to surfing without JavaScript on websites where the JavaScript is not free software. This is harder than I thought it would be, but has given...