Friday follow-ups and developments.

[sensaes]

In the midst of yet more Oyster card woe (http://londonist.com/2008/07/oysters_shucked_part_two.php and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7524754.stm), there's been a much happier development regarding the Radboud University research team's work on the card's underlying (crap) algorithm (item originally covered here: http://community.livejournal.com/anti_gravitas/83923.html). It's going to be published after all...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7516869.stm (story also covered in The Times here: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4373717.ece).

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Sticking with The Times Online for a moment, I meant to plug their extensive Bond retrospective last week - if only for the splendid interactive map of London it featured - but never got around to it. Fortunately it's still available:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/for_your_eyes_only/

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Robert Soloway (http://sensaes.livejournal.com/562001.html) has been given just shy of four years in jail, and ordered to make a $700,004 "restitution payment" to the victims of his heinous spamming activities. Good! Details here:

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/End-of-reign-for-jailed-spam-king/article/112780/

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BT are in trouble again, but this time for targeting Tiscali customers with scurrilous biz-buzz rumours. Tut.

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/BT-faces-Tiscali-defamation-fury/article/112799/

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"Let that be your last triple-word score!"

Vis-à-vis dodgy Internet practices, if you're a fan of the Scrabulous Facebook app, you've clearly got far too much spare time on your hands. ;o)

Oh, and Hasbro have launched a lawsuit against the company who are ripping 'em off so outrageously:

http://tech.uk.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=9007193

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Clarification: Regarding yesterday's report-back on the HG/TG "anniversary" malarkey, Eternally Arcane isn't the same thing as Aeternus Arcanus, although I can see where the confusion might've arisen. Simple distinction: The former has an RSS feed set up (even available via LiveJournal - arcanus2), whereas the latter doesn't (er, well not officially, anyway). Obviously, the content's wildly different, too...

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Bonus: This truly does...not...compute!

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/25/yahoo-does-a-microsoft/