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Bigmouth Strikes Again

Freelance journalist Gary Marshall on technology, the Internet, music, Macs and more

Is the Palm Pre an iPhone killer?

Who cares? It looks nice though.

Full details here. Summary? Fast 3G, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, 3 megapixel camera, GPS, integrated IM, SMS and MMS, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, 8GB on-board storage and Webkit-based web applications. It’s almost certainly going to cost a fair whack of cash, though.

Leonardo da Vinci didn’t have to put up with this crap

It’s Friday, which means time for another Techradar opinion column. Today’s offering: why Apple and Microsoft’s keynotes sucked.

I love my job.

Makes a change from horse porn and midgets, I suppose

Today, I am mostly being spammed by Snuggie. It’s a blanket - with SLEEVES!

Lily Allen, drugs and the Daily Mail

Lily Allen tells The Word magazine that newspapers go OTT when talking about drugs.

The only story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you - you will become a prostitute, a rapist or a dealer. But that’s not true. I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem at all.

Which prompts the Daily Mail to, yes, go OTT about drugs.

Why Police snooping powers are a step too far

The nice people at Techradar.com have kindly given me a regular blab slot to talk about tech, and the first one is up: it’s about the powers that will enable the police to install keyloggers and other spyware on people’s PCs without a warrant.

Imagine if the Home Office decided that the best way to fight terrorism was to ban curtains.

“Hang on!” we’d say. “That means Creepy Dave across the road will be able to see me in my underpants!”

The Home Office would nod sagely. “That’s true, but you know who else has curtains? Terrorists! Terrorists and gangsters! So it’s curtains for curtains!”

The Home Office hasn’t banned curtains just yet, but it’s getting closer.