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Instrumentum Vocale

February 14, 2010 – 3:14 am

Sir John Houghton, who played a critical role in establishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), was roundly condemned after it emerged that he was an apparent advocate of scary propaganda to frighten the public into believing the dangers of global warming.
“Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen,” Sir John was supposed to [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Environment, Funnies, Media, Politics, Science, Skeptics | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (11)

iSay

December 6, 2009 – 2:07 am

Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city.
Italy’s culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports.
Among the ruins visible on the search engine’s free mapping service are the town’s statues, [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, History | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Sticks and stones…

August 20, 2009 – 9:09 pm

I seem to be building up rather a niche in posts on blogging, social networking, defamation and privacy law. Cases are springing up like mushrooms.
I’ve written before about the outing of “NightJack”, a policeman whose blog became immensely popular. It seemed to me that the development of outing pseudonymous bloggers was a rather sad one. [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments (15)

Anonymous no more…

June 18, 2009 – 9:02 pm

I can’t believe there is a case called The Author of A Blog v Times Newspapers Limited [2009] EWHC 1358 (QB). But there is.
“The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous author of a blog known as “Night Jack”. He was a police officer whose blog provided an inside view of [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging, England, Internet, Law, Media, Privacy, Society | Tagged , , , , | Comments (27)

Cat-contracts

February 22, 2009 – 9:48 pm

All of us will have come across those internet contracts (aka End User License Agreements, aka EULAs). You know the ones: they say “Terms and Conditions of Use” and you scroll down about 20 clauses, and click “I agree” at the bottom. Because I’m a contract nerd, I do actually sometimes read them out of [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Animals, Fark!, Internet, Law | Tagged , , | Comments (35)

Well, Brendan O’Neill is still a Marxist, even if the rest of Spiked have abandoned ship

February 5, 2009 – 9:15 am

This evening, the Oxford Libertarian Society hosted Spiked Online’s Brendan O’Neill to speak on the topic ‘Why Environmentalism is the Enemy of Liberty‘.
I think that O’Neill scored some good hits on the green movement: picking out the strong strains of misanthropy, paternalism and privilege attached to much environmental debate (and, it has to be said, [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Environment, Politics, The Left | Tagged , , , , | Comments (80)

Black Dog, the internet, Phillip Adams and My Father — Guest Post by Ken Nielsen

January 13, 2009 – 8:39 pm

[SL: After qualifying as a lawyer, Ken Nielsen switched to management and spent most of his career in the food business in Australia and Asia. In 2002 he and his wife Liz accidentally set up an opera company: www.pinchgutopera.com.au]
You can, for a small price, download me from iTunes. I don’t sing, play an instrument or even hum in tune. [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Internet, Media | Comments (30)

Perils of Facebook

October 24, 2008 – 8:53 am

If you are going to “chuck a sickie” after a big night out, it’s probably not a good idea to announce it in your status update on Facebook. But that is exactly what a Sydney call centre worker did…and of course, he was sprung by his boss. Oh well, at least he seems to have [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Fark!, Popular culture | Comments (5)

Passwords: I hates them

September 18, 2008 – 11:21 pm

Over at Club Troppo, Jacques (our redoubtable admin) informs us that a bunch of not very nice internet types have hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account. This seems to be part of an ongoing attempt to prove that she improperly conducted government business using her private account, although it appears that there was nothing to [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Fark!, Internet | Comments (14)

Science attempts the 24 hour news cycle

September 12, 2008 – 2:13 am

Well, the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t sent us all into a black hole (yay!), and Channel 4 news once again drags out the funnies to celebrate. Good science reporting from the MSM is rare; MSM science reporting that (a) respects the science and (b) takes the piss out of the MSM is even rarer. Props [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Science | Comments (0)