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Movablestyle.com

Fantastic Idea, though there aren’t that many templates here right now, and the ones that are here aren’t that involved. What I’d really like to see is something akin to Blogger’s new template collection. Kind of a CSS Zen Garden, meets click and run. Good start though. ——–

Penguin backs down on Katie.com

Penguin Putnam’s decision to rename one of its best-selling books could mean that one of the Net’s oddest domain name battles may be drawing to a close. The dispute is odd because it is not over ownership of a domain name, but about its use as a book title. It is quite a saga, but ...

New Daleks to Have Feet

DALEKS could be given LEGS in the new series of Dr Who. Show bosses are looking at the exterminators being able to climb stairs, fly and hover. Their legs may be like those of Star Wars robot R2D2. Or the BBC could use our ideas — and have the Doctor’s enemy with Penny Lancaster pins ...

There Are Two Americas

The real difference between the two parties comes with the decision of at one point, exactly, the government should start restricting our lives. Does Big Brother have a place in markets, or in minds, or in both? Up until this point in our recent political memory, the Leave Us Alone crowd has traditionally found a ...

Plagiarism Detectors

A survey of around 350 undergraduates found nearly 25% had copied text from another source at least once. A new service that can scan 4.5 billion web pages is now online so that lecturers can check the originality of the work submitted by students. I wonder how much of this plagiarism would be avoided if ...