Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Irish House Crimes Anita Kiely attempts to stem the tide of violations of good taste in home improvement by naming and shaming the worst offences. The enormous bubble in house prices in Ireland has left much of the population stranded in rented accommodation, and given those who owned houses a huge asset which could be borrowed against. So, as the story above suggests, those outside the leaded windows are sometimes particularly sensitive to how other people's property is abused. The numbers of cobble locked driveways in Dublin must come close to the top of any global index of such things. I believe that San Francisco has gone through a similar boom. Has the housing stock there seen a comparably gaudy set of facelifts? 2:07:30 PM  What Say You? []   Drowning, but determined to keep breathing Music bosses mull piracy options. The UK music industry is putting its faith into new copy protection techniques to fight music piracy, a conference hears. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY] A story of foolology at work. The hope that the proverbial Magic Beans of copyright protected CDs will make things better is absurd for an industry whose main problem is that it is geared towards generating drivel. The real solution to falling CD sales is to let more people hear superb acts like Ms. Dynamite. And to make no more series of Pop Idol 12:58:16 AM  What Say You? []   Standards, not what they used to be Having discovered the trick to unseating Scott Rosenberg from perpetual pole position in the Salon rankings ( enter into a discussion, no matter how brief, about Belgian topless starlet Veronique De Cock) and having seen it propel the Admirably Polylinguistic Michel Vuijlsteke's Weblog and now the Equally Admirable Monolinguistic Reverse Cowgirl's Blog to the top of the charts, I am sorry to say that even the possibility of ovetaking Scott's fine musings has caused the usually highbrow News from Elsewhere to slip slightly from its lofty disdain of ratings. Googlebots, take me now! 12:28:04 AM  What Say You? []

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