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L'Est RÃ©publicain reveals report of Ben Laden's death

By John Garner on Sunday, September 24, 2006

The French Newspaper L'Est Republicain describes a confidential report from the French secret service that in turn refers to the Saudi secret service who are convinced that Osama Ben Laden died from a severe case of typhoid. He is reported to have been in a remote area along the Pakistanian border that would have meant […]

Turning away from 9/11

By John Garner on Wednesday, September 13, 2006

There is an intriguing article over at slate.com revolving around a controversial photo by Thomas Hoepker. Do check out the article and the photo. The photo shows a group of young people on the Brooklyn waterfront in view of Manhattan on 9/11. I read the first paragraph and then scrolled down to the photo. I […]

Which Movie Online ?

By John Garner on Wednesday, September 13, 2006

TV Series and the Internet are getting on fine wouldn't you say ? The music industry has been cornered into the position of accepting that systems like iTunes are actually working and working well. So why would the movie industry continue to dig its heals in about distributing films over the Internet ? You may […]

Beware of the Pretext

By John Garner on Monday, September 11, 2006

The current HP scandal is the consequence of what is known as "pretexting". Over at the washingtonpost.com there is an article that covers the shady procedure of "pretexting" to obtain information about a person. Although you may like myself, be astonished and unaware that executives of the same company engaged in spying upon each other […]

Bob Dylan plays for Apple

By John Garner on Sunday, September 10, 2006

Take a look at the recent advert for Apple's iTunes & iPod, featuring Bob Dylan. The advert plays with the well known shadows concept commonly used in both iPod and iTunes ads, however each person in the ad like Dylan is recognisable regardless of the shadow effect... Enjoy 🙂

What is next in blogging, please...

By John Garner on Sunday, September 10, 2006

Taking a look at the online photo industry may well give you the answer... If you look at the new battle between Flickr (Yahoo) and Picasa (Google) then you could be faced with what will be happening soon in blogging. Google is putting the heat on Flickr with its Picasa 2 beta that I have […]

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