Don't confuse moral blackmail with owning the moral high ground. Eliminating suffering is a perfectly good argument to try and convince someone to go vegan. Just like we would reduce suffering by no longer choosing to have children for our selfish reasons of personal happiness, content at accepting all the possible suffering one's kid might go through. Both arguments seem to get the recipient especially irate.

There's no need to move off it (hopefully) - based on this 2 month article there will be a follow up (aptly named the N950) running meego http://www.newsden.net/meego-powered-nokia-n9-will-be-replaced-by-n950-6982/ There's hope! Personally, I'm about to purchase the n900 to encourage development of any Meego platform.

Google introduces 'charlie' status for online services. More at 11.

Plenty of examples out there of course but here's one involving /.'s old friend, the United Fruit Company. The UFC lobbied the US government to support the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

After the expropriations began in 1953 the UFC began lobbying the U.S. government in an attempt to draw them into their confrontation with Arbenz. The U.S. State Department responded by, amongst other things, successfully seeking approved cuts in economic aid and cuts in trade, with devastating effect to Guatemala, since "85% of Guatemala's exports are sold in the country and 85% of their imports come from the U.S." Internal U.S. State Department documents stated that the cutoff would have to be done "quietly" because this was "a violation of the Non-intervention agreement, to which we are party... If it became obvious that we were in violation of this agreement, other Latin American governments would rally to the support of Guatemala

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The best easter egg I've ever come across was in the flight simulator B17 The Mighty Eighth II (anyone remember that?)

If you were to play the CD as you were to play a music CD, you would find that the 8th track is a Morse Code signal. This signal, once translated, spells, "L-Y-M-E-R-E-G-I-S" There is a town on the south England coast named "Lyme Regis." Start a recon flight to the area of that town (you may want to find it on a map of England first) and fly low along the beach keeping a sharp look out. Keep looking and you will eventually find a flying saucer landed on the beach and two aliens sitting in lounge chairs!! You should also be able to faintly hear some strange 50's music coming from their radio! Too funny, and a brilliant idea for an egg!

source: http://www.eeggs.com/items/20664.html

Following your link I found they've posted pictures of their headquarters on their website http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/thames-house-image-gallery.html . You'd think any civilian taking pictures of the building would subsequently be subjected to a little chat with the law but there's no problem when they show it on their site in all it's glory from various angles...

It's pretty interesting the way developers are almost falling over themselves (if you believe the summary) to start developing for the iPhone. Build an attractive product and not only will the customers appear but also the Developers! Developers! Developers!. As a developer you'll need to buy an Apple computer for the privilege, and probably start learning Objective C, not an easy language to pick up when you're used to Java/C#. It's almost contrary to the idea usually associated with MS of making it easy for developers and the platform will succeed.
I'd imagine Apple is shifting quite a few new machines to iPhone developers who would otherwise still be developing on Windows/Java ME.

The register published an informative article on this not too long ago. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/13/retro_piracy_brouhaha_discussed/ Basically, why would the UK suddenly care about ships being captured it failed to care about the high numbers of ships with foreign crews sinking?

The soviets didn't exactly shy away from exact copies either.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

I would suggest /. to add to their next update checking the use of asterisks... I spent 5 minutes trying to find where you thought your footnote applied.

[I loved RA2, still do]