Zenbunny and other thinker-fanboys may enjoy this.

UK consumers happy to own fakes

Going to stick my neck out here, possibly, and say: Fake brand-name goods should not be illegal. If someone wants to own a bag with a certain logo or a particular hideous pattern on it, by grace, let him. Bootleggers are in it, surprise surprise, like everyone else, to make money with the minimum effort — but it's all a response to the usual transparently pathetic attempts to create artificial scarcity.

It's not going to change unless buyers stop the lazy thinking that results in "logo = quality" when "some currently-popular firms got their cachet for making quality goods, but it's by no means a given" is more like it.

Bush bans terror suspect torture

Duh ok, I don't get it - does this cover outsourced torture too? Are they saying they'll apply the same standards to their subcontractors? Because if not, what the hell does this change?

Marcus Brigstocke <3 \m/ \m/ XD XD XD

If the mp3 goes down, I don't honestly have it saved, really, on my hard drive, so there's no point emailing me to ask me to send it to you, because I wouldn't, of course, be able to.