Show notes: heating oil costs, happy birthday spam, Wim Wenders
What did you think of the show? The stories we covered this week.
Rising cost of heating oil
We investigated why the price of home heating oil has risen so dramatically and if there are any alternatives for the 1.5 million UK households affected.
Everest
The media blackout surrounding the Olympic torch's journey to the summit of Mount Everest. More on the blog here.
Net neutrality
How so-called traffic shaping would impact our ability to fully access the internet.Read about net neutrality.
Favourites
Film director Wim Wenders recommended his top websites.
Mr Blog
Chris mentioned Alex Strick van Linschoten who's blogging his travels to Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and the north Caucasus over the next 4 years for a book on Sufism.
Happy birthday spam
To 'celebrate' spam's 30th birthday, we spoke to Richard Jones, who has kept all the spam he received since 1997. His online archive is here.
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Thanks for having me on the show today. The official spam archive URL is: http://www.annexia.org/spam
Peter Darley kindly hosts the first part of the archive (1997-2003) at the link above. Make sure you click on the "Browse .. by date" link on that page to see some of the early e-mail spams mentioned in the program.
I make the full archive available, but only to legitimate academic researchers.
- Richard Jones.
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I am fed up with hearing about the lack of interest the public have in voting, well leaving aside the boring American marathon the main reason for the publics lack of interest is that no matter what Joe public does they have can no effect. Just think though, that should a party win an election BUT only have an overall majority of say 10 that party would have to consider. sell and convince the electorate at every turn (otherwise meaning they would all have to work hard ). At each bi-election if people were not convinced by that party things would get difficult but it would get people interested as they would feel they had power and involvement. Lets urge people to vote tactically and JUST let a party get in but give them a sword hanging by a thread above them.
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