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UK Digital Economy Act 2010

The UK’s Digital Economy Act 2010 is meant to protect copyright online and increase regulation and control of the way people use the Internet. At first glance that doesn’t seem to harmful, but it could mean that

* Websites can be blocked for alleged copyright infringement.
* Families accused of sharing copyrighted files will be disconnected without trial. They will have to pay to appeal.
* Even if you don’t live in the UK, it sets a worrying precedent for other countries to follow suit.

Let Samsung Take Those Old Electronics Off Your Hands This Spring

People can dispose of old electronics safely and responsibly through a series of e-waste recycling drives that are being held at public schools in San Francisco. Samsung is encouraging everyone to recycle their old TVs, monitors, desktop and laptop computers, printers, keyboards, mice, radios, stereos, speakers, DVD and CD players, VCRs, MP3 players, PDAs, and cell phones.

Embrace Life – always wear your seatbelt

The video has been created for the Sussex Safer Roads campaign (for the non-Brits, Sussex being a UK county). This is yet another example of how campaigns and small businesses on a budget might ensure they get a bigger bang for their buck.

CURRENT JUNK – Fiat Stilo

My car is less than 3 years old – it will not pass the MOT test, because a windscreen wiper is defective – and I can’t get a wiper! Obsolescence already?

Google’s threat to exit China wins praise

Most of the negative news in the past from China is regarding poisonous exported products or human rights violations, this time the accusation is that they attacked a foreign multinational corporation to collect intelligence