FUCK YOU SHAUN SMITH, I HAVE PLAYED AT BIRMINGHAM CARLING ACADEMY ALREADY, WELL THE ACADEMY TWO, BUT WE PARKED IN THE SAME PLACE THAT YOU WOULD, SO FUCK YOU.

Gareth Campesinos!

This ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ has, thankfully passed me by, thanks to being in the US. There appears to be a programme here called ‘America’s Got Talent’, but I don’t watch television to know whether it’s a real programme or scheduled broadcast for penis enlargement pills. Regardless, they wouldn’t let any ugly people on stage here, so there’s no chance it’s the same.

Apparently that Susan Boyle was on Oprah. Again with the not watching television.

_Aaaanyway_, everything you and I never needed to know about this Simon Cowell Ego Vehicle has now been covered by Gareth of Los Campesinos in a style that I approve of.

BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT FINAL: PREVIEW « LC!

• Wave is an open network: anyone should be able to become a wave provider and interoperate with the public network
• Wave is a distributed network model: traffic is routed peer-to-peer, not through a central server

Still quite a lot to consume concerning wave. Whether it’s the email/IM/Facebook killer mega-protocol for the 21st century or not remains to be seen.

But, these first two points from the Community Principles‎ are important. At the very least, from these to intentions they are trying to build something new for the web, not just for them. And that makes it interesting.

A million questions remain, but I think that given the above intent, it should be approached with enthusiasm and not suspicion.

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Fonts available for @font-face embedding – Webfonts.info

Pick One

#[Pick One](http://heyben.com/pickone/)

Shattered Art by Brock Davis

#Shattered Art by Brock Davis

The story posted by the Web site was based on an unnamed tipster. No inquiry was made to CBS or Last.fm about the veracity of the anonymous source. Those who consult such blogs should be aware of the standard by which such postings are sourced and published.

CBS

You may be aware that this weekend TechCrunch [reposted their bullshit](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/) ‘OMG Last.FM are sharing data with the RIAA’ story. Last time around I lost my mind and spent about three days blogging all sorts of anger about TechCrunch and how much of a vindictive, manipulative, trolling, industry harming flangehorse Michael Arrington is. Then Last.FM officially responded with [TechCrunch are full of shit](http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit) and won the internet.

This time around Last.FM staff like Russ spent the weekend engaged with users on their forums, issuing [new denials](http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/8#f9525592) and having really interesting dialogue about it all. TechCrunch spent the weekend [baiting](http://twitter.com/arrington/status/1888429185), [deleting legitimate criticism](http://twitter.com/alexmuller/status/1903186356) from their blog comments and getting [inexplicably aggressive](http://twitter.com/arrington/status/1897562957) on Twitter. Go figure.

There are couple of separate issues that I wanted to raise about it in a future post, but meantime, CBS issued a short, swift denial (which surely won’t satisfy Arrington), finishing with this quite succinct dig at his now even more shambolic reputation. CBS, being a big faceless corporation, communicate in dull terms. But as far as cold corporate vernacular goes, I raise a glass and a smile to this cold, corporate reimagining of ‘TechCrunch are full of shit’.

(via. Last.fm Denies Data-Sharing Accusations, Again – Digits – WSJ)

Shitty Graph is Shitty

#Shitty Graph is Shitty

I ♥ Validator

#I ♥ Validator

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party

# Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party

The great thing about it is when you start seeing it in places like China and Afghanistan. It’s democracy. We’ve kinda given democracy back to the world.

Simon Cowell, referring to the spread of celebrity-judge toting TV talent shows into the far reaches of the world.

Simon Cowell is laminated onto my list of five.

… That’s five people that I’m allowed to punch in the face without breaking my commitment to being a passive, non-violent person.

via. BBC News