It seems the IWF have backed down in their attempt to censor Wikipedia. One of the reasons they cite is the unintended consequence more people having seen the questionable image since they pointed it out. This is sometimes referred to as the Streisand effect after Barbra Streisand's attempt to …

I posted my first simple patch for Rockbox to their mailing lists yesterday. It's a pretty simple one but I'm a big believer in trying to make the build system as flexible as possible. Also as I'm thinking of various experiments on my one and only iPod it would be …

I don't really want to mention SPAM blogs in-case I give them Google Juice. However this one is interesting just for the phrasing of the language. For example (from here):

"“Transitive congratulates AMD on its incoming promulgation of the newborn Quad-Core AMD Opteron (TM) processor,â€? said Ian Robinson …

if (sscanf(dirname, "%8x", &scanf_id)==1)
{
// We can  extract the ID right now
su = alloc_vsSu((uint32_t) strtoul(dirname, NULL, 16));
g_assert(su->config->id.idAsUint32==scanf_id);
}
else if (g_strcmp0("default", dirname)==0)
{
// The …

It's interesting looking at the graph of donations for the Atheist Bus Ads. For something that kicked off it's fund raising effort today for a now modest looking £5,500 it seems to have caught the zeitgeist. Perhaps it's because their is a silent majority* that feels left out …