Orange Darth ad

Lovely continuation of the Orange “pitch” ads with Darth Vader being seen off.

Biometrics won’t work

William Heath has done the digging around to find the evidence that biometrics won’t work for a UK ID card (drawn from research submitted as part of the bill being resubmitted this week). This has been known for a long time, but maybe someone will shout about it...

New spatial reference standards

Egads! Some signs of truly joined up government around spatial references. Why is it important? Because postcodes don’t uniquely identify anything, and aren’t necessarily useful even when they do.

Google Print

They just keep on going. Google Print allows you to search the full text of books they’ve scanned in. Here’s a search for shared services that I’m working on at the moment.

Google Local

More Google genius with maps and yellow pages and my local curry houses.