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By way of an update to my earlier post, The Guardian reported late on Tuesday that the Internet Watch Foundation have decided to reverse "its ban on a Wikipedia page and image of a record album cover showing a young nude girl".
This apparently "unprecedented move" (of what, jackasses changing their mind when they’re clearly wrong?) [...]

Here’s the deal, if you haven’t heard this blow up in the last couple of days. It first kicked off around midday on the 5th December when it was discovered on Wikipedia that all users in the UK were being passed through a transparent proxy; allowing content to be filtered, in this case the Virgin [...]

You’ll never guess what the email address associated with this account is…

abuse@digg.com

Cool little feature that I believe is unique to Break’s video service – in that I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet.

Every video has a “play this next” ticker that scrolls through related videos while the current one is playing. On hover, it displays a preview of the related video and once clicked it changes [...]

I’m not too sure where I stand on how Twitter is evolving and growing at the moment. Guess if I was forced to opine, it would be that they’re not developing, improving or evolving fast enough. I know they’re trying to keep the service simple, but the lack of a few would-be-amazing features (groups, anyone?) [...]

Well… I made it to the University of York, and survived Freshers’ Week; making my way through two fire alarms, a few dozen pints of Guinness and more free Dominos pizza than I care to remember.
The newsy-thing that came up today is the flyer that’s displayed to the right – UoY’s Computing Services are asking [...]