links for 2009-01-16
Posted on 16 January 2009 in Daily Links (No comments yet - be the first!)
- Gordon Bennett.. does this man have so little confidence in his own faith that he can't accept people seeing an alternative viewpoint? What gets me is that the employer (First) are creating a huge precedent for themselves. What happens if/when a Jewish driver objects to driving a bus with a Walls sausages advert on it? Or a Muslim driver doesn't like the fact that Liz Hurley has got her hair showing? Of course the atheist driver who would disagree with driving a bus marked "Find God Now!" would probably be sacked...
- "Carter's report will conclude that Channel 4 is no longer unique in a multichannel TV and digital media age"
- "Advisers close to the BBC concluded that any [BBC] Worldwide-Channel 4 agreement would amount to 'Frankenstein M&A' that would create a larger company without commercial logic."
- Brand new shiny looking Freedom of Information site from the BBC
- And as someone on the Points of View message board has spotted, the new look BBC FOI site no longer has all the previously published responses and as such the disclosure log seems to start only in January 2008. Hmm...
- Over Christmas I mentioned "The Real Underground" - a the map that put a geographical face on the London tube map. It was moved to the TfL site and subsequently disappeared. Well now, as blogged about by Annie Mole, there's a new Google Maps overlay which puts the tube, DLR, Tramlink and London Overground onto a map. Cool and no mistake.
- Inexplicably, the Guardian miss off pictures of some of McGoohan's most memorable roles in top TV drama series, Columbo! He played different murderers in four different episodes, and directed five. The fact he was a life long friend of Peter Falk may explain something about that...
- I need to start digitising a load of VHS tapes, and whilst I will try and see if I can get Mythbuntu working, my fallback is to hook the VHS up to Windows Media Centre which creates silly, propriety, uneditable DVR-MS files. Except... with this registry hack you can load them into Windows Movie Maker, so I can output them as high quality WMV files and then burn them to DVD.
- MythTV - the Linux equivalent of Windows Media Centre - is supposed to be a bit of a pain to install, but I've heard good things about this dedicated Ubuntu spin. I did try to get it running in a virtual machine and it kept failing. Must try running in Live disc mode. I have lots of VHS tapes to digitise so I'd like to get it running...
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