Jonathan Rothwell

Jonathan Rothwell is a technology enthusiast, blogger, student and certified pedant living and working on the unfashionable end of Surrey in England, in the UK.

Me Around the Web

July 1st
	Shared 20 links. — 9:36pm via Google Reader Dell sells 19-inch monitors in Taiwan for $15 by accident, may have to ship them YouTube promises redesign amid chorus of complaints Microsoft making fancy ads for IE instead of improving the browser Unelected pygmies shouldn’t throw stones The evolution of Gmail labels The prime minister uses the C word - "cuts" Group Works to Disbar Torture Lawyers One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong Zero percent rise! Old fossil "disproves" Darwin! New Click-Fraud Attack Is Stealthiest Yet Sony pairs a powerful remote with a sexy iPod speaker dock Last.fm free for Xbox Live Gold members The PM uses the 'C' word: 'Cuts' Who’d have thought it? RIAA Victory Over Usenet.com In Copyright Case Argentina takes over the world! I was wondering about that I get email followups BD+ Resealed Once Again
	Shared 2 links. — 2:01pm via Google Reader Gordon’s Zero Growth Gaffe Gordon’s Zero Growth Gaffe
	Headline spotted in this morning's Metro: Mum, Jennifer's having a swine flu party, can I go? [#] — 8:53am via Twitter
	Morning, internets. Everything is going suspiciously well today. And not one bus has been late. I hope the trains would be so kind as to ... [#] — 8:30am via Twitter
June 30th
	Just saw a guy walking down the road with a ridged forehead, like a Klingon. [#] — 1:27pm via Twitter
	Shared 14 links. — 1:16pm via Google Reader Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence over prank 911 calls All new first person shooter Doom Resurrection comes to iPhone, iPod touch Jackson highlights the contrast between LA and DC Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years It's Official: Jobs is back to work, says Apple Wikipedia Censored To Protect Captive Reporter Express Mario Molina: Energy and climate change: is there a solution? Creating your own Apple Mac Netbook Why Linux will never catch up with Windows as long as … (via feedly) Mail Outside jobs for MPs Dave predicts a riot Group pitches Linux for free netbooks from mobile carriers
	I like GRUB 2. [#] — 12:25pm via Twitter
June 29th
	Shared 12 links. — 4:16pm via Google Reader Michael Jackson coverage Stuart Pivar: Ballsy or Crazy? 13-year-old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU Google Claims They "Just Aren't That Big" Lenovo Tinkers WIth Larger Delete and Escape Keys Unlocking Android Apple joins universal mobile phone charger standard NASA Requests Help With Von Braun's Notes Ray Comfort demolishes atheist film festival My collection Why Can't Cops Read House Numbers?
	Anyone know how to repair the album artwork database on am iPod, short of erasing it? [#] — 11:56am via Twitter
	RT @twrivia Mel Brooks was born on June 28 1926. For which film did he win an Academy Award for best screenplay?http://twrivia.com [#] — 9:15am via Twitter
June 28th
	Shared 14 links. — 8:27pm via Google Reader And another thing about Palm running ads about us Has NASA Found the Lost Moon Tapes? The Open Source Design Conundrum I Get Email Dawkins launches anti-indoctrination summer camp Banning the Burka: Racist, Populist or Just Plain Right? Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems RIAA Defendant Moves For Summary Judgment Guess What? No Ark Showed Up. Let's not get so feckin' hung up about swearing | David Mitchell And another thing about Palm running ads about us Text Comments Out In YouTube "National Discussion" of Health Care Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal Expelled redux
	Shared Breaking News — 4:00pm via Google Reader
June 27th
	Shared Another Ubuntu desktop — 11:05pm via Flickr
	Shared — 8:30pm via Google Reader
	Shared 3 links. — 8:00pm via Google Reader +++ Police Called to Keen House Over Squatters +++ swim wif tigers +++ Police Called to Keen House Over Squatters +++
	RT @RichardWiseman Astrologer arrested...he should have seen it coming, etc... http://bit.ly/CFmCL [#] — 7:28pm via Twitter
	@rooreynolds it does seem to be rather over-used, doesn't it? *shameless plug* http://bit.ly/16vfl9 [#] — 7:20pm via Twitter
	@Psythor got one (albeit tenuous): the Camberley News & Mail is running a poll about Jackson. http://bit.ly/6HRn6 [#] — 7:08pm via Twitter
	RT @Arcticmatt #101 Alternative uses for Perez Hilton: 97 proof of evolution. A deity would not waste time on such crap. [#] — 7:02pm via Twitter
	New blog post: Oh, boy http://crashedpips.com/2009/06/oh-boy/ [#] — 6:36pm via Twitter
June 26th
	Shared 18 links. — 6:42pm via Google Reader Friday Cephalopod: The Grimp Calvin v Darwin: This Time It's Personal iPhone porn app - now you see it; now you don't Conservatives: Please Stop Rapping Your Ever Burdensome Inbox FBI Files a "Secret Justification" For Gag Order News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic Michael Jackson dead Death of a Legend Mail Apple approves, then bans iPhone porn app Express I get email Don't do it! RIP, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson Microsoft-Backed Firm Says IBM Is Anticompetitive Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case Apple sued over iTunes gift cards
	Oh deary deary dear... just heard about Michael Jackson. Shit. He wasn't even 50... [#] — 4:37am via Twitter
June 25th
	Shared 14 links. — 1:09pm via Google Reader The return of Stuart Pivar Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional Apps for your new iPhone 3GS Guess who else won toys from Eric Hovind? Mail Express A browser-free Windows 7 Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing Apple and clone maker Psystar back in court Google Voice invites on their way Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis Another myth debunked with Science Apple should have revealed Jobs' op, claims Warren Buffett Victory!
	Shared 3 links. — 11:40am via Google Reader I luvs you , Stew… I mean Stu… The Pirate Party demographic a safer screensaver for 4.3
June 24th
	For some reason, Darin's Boot and Nuke seems very... silly. Why dd the whole drive, and not individual partitions? [#] — 12:58am via Twitter
	Shared Sure, ai have a — 12:00am via Google Reader
June 23rd
	Shared 14 links. — 11:42pm via Google Reader Apple's patent frenzy Another creationist gomer in a local paper Do Bloggers Need a Union? Small steps Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger John Bercow should stamp his authority on the Commons quickly Apple issues fix for MacBook Pro SATA interface Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger Truth in advertising The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3GS A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs The kids are getting smarter AAlib in Flash Obscure Languages: Akkadian
June 22nd
	Shared 6 links. — 12:34am via Google Reader Apple rejects a Commodore 64 emulating iPhone app that coulda been a contender Mail Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? Val Swain and Emily Apple - Shocking police footage St Petersburg Times takes on Scientology Margaret Beckett's a Shoo In!
June 21st
	Published If Microsoft is the Borg, then Brandon LeBlanc is Locutus — 6:03am via Crashed Pips
	New blog post: If Microsoft is the Borg, then Brandon LeBlanc is Locutus http://bit.ly/Zpqg3 [#] — 6:03am via Twitter
	Rotten Tomatoes is reporting North by Northwest as "opening this week". Have I missed something? [#] — 5:44am via Twitter
	The world's most duplicitous chipmunk, @HazelBlearsMP, is now on Twitter. Hmm... [#] — 5:34am via Twitter
	Shared 4 links. — 5:26am via Google Reader If Microsoft is the Borg, then Brandon LeBlanc is Locutus Spare me that rubbish about your 'rights' | David Mitchell Shady Doings Obama and nerd cred
June 20th
	Shared 4 links. — 12:00pm via Google Reader Punters Shun Bercow, Beckett Now Favourite Horse for Speaker HOMO SAPIENS Pirate Party gets its first MP HOMO SAPIENS
	Shared 12 links. — 8:09am via Google Reader MO Court Protects Gay Pride Protestors The Truth Behind the Death of Linux On the Netbook Touching a Nerve Print: Still Good For Train Trips Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics Apple finds silver lining in verdict on green claims Jon Stewart Scares Obama DOJ the riaa have sued Jammie Thomas-Rasset of minnesota for $2,000,000 for illegally downloading music. Minneapolis Free Iran protest Dumbass Quote of the Day Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress
June 19th
	A van just drove part with 'CAUGHT ON CAMERA: MOBILE CCTV UNIT' emblazoned across the bonnet. Rather Orwellian, isn't it? [#] — 4:03pm via Twitter
June 17th
	Eek... X just restarted for no readily apparent reason whatsoever [#] — 11:52am via Twitter
	Shared 2 links. — 9:52am via Google Reader Pirate Party response to Digital Britain Pirate party logos
	Shared 8 links. — 3:06am via Google Reader Google urged to improve Gmail privacy and security risks Apple reminds Palm Pre owners what 'unsupported' means UK Government Announces Broadband Tax HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight Finally, a homeopathic medicine that actually works! US Senators to examine Apple, AT&T exclusive handset deals Obama Mocked The History of the Forbidden Character
June 16th
	Shared 18 links. — 6:59pm via Google Reader Microsoft's looming Windows 7 licensing 'disaster' for XP users Frank Drake speaks Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality The iPhone 3G S: Pricing and availability across Europe and the US An outing OMG! Gays Go To Prom! WWDC: Busted Gay kids dance! We're sorry, China Kingston intros "world's first" DataTraveler 200 128GB USB Flash drive The Next Ad You Click May Be a Virus Pepper an Australian poll Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability Dolphin Fetus Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops Mac and PC Tesco special offer: FAIL Buckyballs Polymerized Into Buckywires
	Shared 3 links. — 6:00pm via Google Reader C64 Twitter client Makes no difference Makes no difference
June 15th
	Shared 6 links. — 6:00pm via Google Reader Byrne On/Off on Cuts and Spending George, call the INTIMIDATION If FPTP is so good, why don’t the Tories use it? Cheez burger masheen u do not ezist in mah wurld
	Shared 21 links. — 4:45pm via Google Reader Worldnutdaily Pushes Astonishing Conspiracy Theory A fist full of broken hardware Charlie Brooker confronts his pet fears Gartner: Google's Android an alternative to Microsoft's Windows in netbooks Pat Buchanan is Outraged A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems “The British Army is in occupation of part of this country.” A trite commercial with a scene that must be made Better Tools For Disabled Geeks? Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? Express An Atheist Church? Virgin Media to offer Universal DRM-free music download service Mail Obama Appeals Jeppesen Dataplan Ruling Wolfram|Alpha adds dedicated iPhone mobile page It’s So Dang Slow! Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes Scientists caught with their pants down, again Obama and DOMA Creation science 101, soon it will have begun, the truth for you and me, down in Tennessee
June 14th
	Shared 4 links. — 4:45am via Google Reader Microsoft Seeking Hot-Or-Not Patent Raphael Aron, Cult Counselor Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? Whatever next - a man with an opinion? | David Mitchell
	Shared 2 links. — 12:00am via Google Reader Don’t let the TV is dead
June 13th
	Shared 19 links. — 5:45pm via Google Reader A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens? Twits Charlie Brooker's screen burn Worldnutdaily Goes Multimedia Default Passwords Blamed In $55M PBX Hacks A Conversation With WhoIsYourCreator.Com Elections in Iran: The Jokes Write Themselves Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls David Cameron should accept David Davis is the real Tory leader Another Example of Police Brutality WhoIsYourCreator saves a soul…for Darwin Tweet of the Day Dumbass Quote of the Day First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3 Turkish futility Blair returns! iPhone OS 3.0 Re-Download Message A “Bug” Says Apple Funny poll
	Shared 5 links. — 2:55am via Google Reader child proof…yes. Queen Has Audience with Mandelson Hyperventilation Kitteh Tim Berners-Lee to open up government data Queen Has Audience with Mandelson
June 12th
	Shared 25 links. — 11:38pm via Google Reader Pikers Apple Rejects App For No Reason? Non-Scientific vs Scientific Thinking An Open Letter to My Cancer MacBook Pros can boot using SD card slot Dumbass Quote of the Day MPs cannot be allowed to prevent electoral reform Right Wing Reasoning in Michigan How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter Apple Rejects App For No Reason? How to purchase a contract-free iPhone 3G S directly from Apple.com Your Letters Is it to be cultural inclusion, or exclusion… Friday Cephalopod: Tableau vivant Another museum in danger McLeroy Still Spouting Creationist Talking Points Microsoft trying to set own antitrust remedy, says Opera CEO EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move Will AT&T Charge Extra For MMS & Tethering? Not a Good Day for Andy Burnham If flies were creationists The Scandal of America's Prison Population DRM Group Set To Phase Out "Analog Hole" More than the sum of its parts
	The words "about bloody time too" spring to mind. http://bit.ly/Dgorn [#] — 6:20pm via Twitter
	Shared 5 links. — 1:24pm via Google Reader Mandelson Shows Who is Master Now Saving my life Yu’z frum Opera 10 Beta Review Friday Caption Competition (Stockwell Beach Party Edition)