 | Last login: 9 hours agoWayne is a single guy from Barnsley, England, UK. The name's Wayne, second name Smallman (go on, laugh it up!) I'm a web designer and developer by day and a writer and 'blogger by night. I run to keep fit, I listen to almost anything except reggae and I'll eat almost anything except marzipan.
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Share This- Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimovs Laws
12:24pm  (5 reviews) ethics, law, robotics, science http://www.physorg.com/news164887377.htm...- A truly fascinating discussion, aping and greatly extending a discussion of my own from 2007, in which I examined the ethical issues relating to robots. Whether we like it or not, the machines are beginning to rise...
Share This- ITVs big hopes for micropayments | Media | guardian.co.uk
Jul 3, 6:55am (1 review) business, tv, entertainment, technology http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgri...- From the page: "ITV 'needs some kind of payment system' on the web, says its strategy director. It will also need users prepared to pay"
Share This- Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei| Technology| Reuters
Jun 29, 3:41am (1 review) business, sony, mac-os, ipod, entertainment, playstation http://www.reuters.com/article/technolog...- From the page: "Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc's highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday."
Share This- Recent scenes from the ISS - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Jun 26, 2:08pm    (91 reviews) photography, space http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06...- If I was given the chance to see Earth from space, I might easily be reduced to tears. Few of us deserve to live here, given our lamentable habits...
Share This- Atheist bus ad dispute goes to tribunal - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting...
Jun 26, 5:35am (1 review) law, religion, politics, humanity http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/...- From the page: "A dispute over Metro Tasmania's refusal to display anti-religious advertisements on its buses has been set down for a conciliation hearing." Religion is, by its very existence and exceptionally violent and sordid history, discriminatory.
Share This- When social media and censorship collide
Jun 26, 1:54am (3 reviews) cyberculture, internet, politics, media, censorship http://www.blahblahtech.com/2009/06/when...- From the page: "So what have the recent elections in Iran, Skittles and Trent Reznor got in common? All three represent what happens when social media and censorship collide."
Share This- Super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS)
Jun 25, 7:48am (2 reviews) programming, twitter, internet, php http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/06/super-...- From the page: "In this post I want to illustrate a super simple way to work with Twitter API and PHP. In particular, this tutorial explains how to get public updates from Twitter public timeline and display them in a web page with a custom style using CSS. In order to get Twitter updates I used Twitterlibphp (a PHP implementation of the Twitter API) that allows you to take advantage of it from within your PHP applications."
Share This- FriendFeed Now Allows File Sharing, Including MP3s
Jun 25, 5:19am (1 review) internet-tools, social-networking, micro-blogging, friendfeed http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fri...- From the page: "Everyone's Robert Scoble's favorite real-time microblogging service, FriendFeed, is now allowing users to post and download many kinds of files through their site."
Share This- http://getclicky.com/blog/165/recent-updates-to-clicky
Jun 25, 2:28am (1 review) marketing, internet, internet-tools, statistics, clicky http://getclicky.com/blog/165/recent-upd...- From the page: "We've silently been releasing new features and bug fixes over the last 2 weeks. I wanted to let everyone know about the recent changes, because it's doubtful anyone has noticed all of them."
Share This- Salty ocean in the depths of Enceladus
Jun 25, 12:51am (1 review) space-exploration, science, planets http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.asp...- From the page: "An enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. In a report published in the international science journal Nature today (25 June), European researchers provide evidence that this magnificent plume is fed by a salty ocean. The discovery could have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life as well as our understanding of how planetary moons are formed."
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