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Twitpic can now sell your photos

By 6000 | 6000 | May 10, 2011

Thanks to this tweet, I was made aware of a change in the terms and conditions of the popular Twitpic site/service, used to attach images to tweets: You retain all ownership rights to Content uploaded to Twitpic. However, by submitting Content to Twitpic, you hereby grant Twitpic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license [...]

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Time on Shale Gas

By 6000 | 6000 | April 6, 2011

Another sensible article on shale gas, its value in the energy demands of the modern world and the environmental dangers of its extraction? Surely not. But yes, it is. Bryan Walsh gives us a few thousand words on the natural gas boom (poor choice of word, I guess), the need for alternative energy sources, the [...]

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Don’t say I’m not green!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 1, 2011

There are those who come onto this blog and accuse me of hating the environment. Maybe it’s because they have misread, not read or simply misunderstood my viewpoints on whales, dolphins and natural gas extraction. It’s not the case. I do care deeply for the environment and I do all that I (reasonably) can to protect and [...]

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Fracking follow-up

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Arguing over whether people actually read stuff before commenting on it (they don’t) is so last week, and thus it’s time to add a couple more thoughts from my fracking post, which was ever so trendy (like Lewis Pugh was last week). Firstly, there were a couple (literally two) objections to my use of the [...]

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Jo Flo

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2011

Incoming from my Dad: Did you know? Former Blade Jostein Flo is one of very few players to have a move or specific tactic named after him. In Norwegian, it is called “Flopasning” – translated into English as “The Flo Pass”. It gained prominence during a period of the early 1990s when the Scandinavians were [...]

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