The FCC has got in touch with BoingBoing, begging for backbone networks geeks and kit…but no-one wants to mention Telecoms Sans Frontieres. Funny that. They have access to world-class network engineering companies and their own satellite backhaul – but they are French. I can’t pick any other possible explanation. Sad, isn’t it?
Read More Why Does Cory Hate TSF?Christopher Hitchens on Newsnight: They’re not mostly Americans – really from the isthmus and the Caribbean. It’s a sign the American dream still exists that they are willing to live below sea level for it But, of course… There is of course a shared humanity Surely there is. You unforgivable whore. It might once have…
Read More All bastards are equal – but some are more equal than othersWell, I promised to insult Leeds RLFC as much as I dissed Hull, so here goes. This weekend saw a Challenge Cup final that lived up to the billing I gave it. I said the Leeds/Hull grudge intensity would rock the Pennines even though it was played in Cardiff, and – yes. The match was…
Read More Bloggin’ Rugby League: Challenge Cup Final, and LeedsThe BoingBoingers are running at top speed trying to bring light, or more accurately TCP/IP data access, to the darkness of refugees fleeing New Orleans. Now, much as I respect the BB team and the brilliance of Cory Doctorow, this is not terribly smart. There is already an outfit that specialises in bringing communications technology…
Read More Solving the problem twiceAnthony Wells has a typically encyclopaedic post up regarding Ken Clarke’s entry to the Tory leadership campaign. There’s all the usual Wellsian statsy goodness, and some very interesting points about just how popular the lover of, ahem, smoky late night jazz is, despite being unfashionable on Europe and, as AW points out, frequently despised when…
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