Archive for the ‘The Interweb’ Category

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Ever so slightly mad song with an utterly insane video. Brilliant!

King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred, DNA Shows
King Tut may be seen as the golden boy of ancient Egypt today, but during his reign, Tutankhamun wasn’t exactly a strapping sun god.
Instead, a new DNA study says, King Tut was a frail pharaoh, beset by malaria and a bone disorder—and possibly compromised by his newly [...]

Digital Economy Bill bill could ‘breach rights’

An influential group of MPs and peers has said the government's approach to illegal file-sharing could breach the rights of internet users.
The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights said the government's Digital Economy Bill needed clarification.
It said that technical measures – which include cutting off persistent pirates – were [...]

France’s anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo Boing Boing
Hapodi, the French agency that’s in charge of the country’s new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with is accused of three acts of infringement, your whole household is taken offline and added to a list of address to which it is illegal to [...]

The BBC’s digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software
Last summer, the BBC tried to sneak “digital rights management” into its high-def digital broadcasts.
Now, generally speaking, the BBC isn’t allowed to encrypt or restrict its broadcasts: the licence fee payer pays for these broadcasts, and no licence fee payer woke up today wishing [...]

Cleaners ‘worth more to society’ than bankers – study
Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests.
The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners create £10 of value for every £1 they are paid.
It claims bankers are a drain on the country because of the damage [...]