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Tech journalist and blogger Dan Gillmor details why Google is being unnecessarily arrogant.

Cintra Wilson, best known for some scathing indictments of Hollywood on Salon.com, as well as the very funny novel “Colors Insulting to Nature,” recently snuck her way into the Washington press corps, and was pretty underwhelmed with the collective ballsiness (or lack thereof) of her fellow scribes.

(You have to go through Salon’s “day pass” thing to read it, but it’s no worse than the usual flash ad.)

Ah, children’s books. Such fine funnels of useful information, particularly of the world-invading and human-enslaving variety. (via Metafiter)

Yes, now Nintendogs takes a sip of the “Hot Coffee.”

(well, not really.)

The BBC, after seeing the premiere of Doctor Who get into the wilds of the Internet before it actually went to air last March, has decided to simulcast BBC1 and BBC2 on the net, as well as providing downloads.

This wise move, in stark contrast to the usual televisual idiocy of Amarican networks, shows ol’ Auntie Beeb certainly seems to understand the sea change the broadcast industry is due for in the next few years. People will still veg out in front of the tube, but increasingly it’ll be on their terms. Digital media means it’ll happen one way or the other; either i get charged a nominal fee and I download from an easy to use service, or I get my torrent on.

A little random anger in 10 parts to ring in your Wednesday morning.

Get it here. Mac folk can just use a Gmail account to set up Jabber in iChat, and apparently audio chat works too. I was using it last night, and both I (and my friend, on a Windows machine) noticed a bit of a lag, but I’m sure they’ll work out the kinks soon enough.

Jason Kottke has been speculating for a while now about the possibility that the operating system is more or less shifting off home computers and onto the Internet. He muses further on the subject here.

Engadget went old skool today, relating the latest technological breakthroughs circa 1985. The part that warms my old, brittle bones is the “Engadget BBS” interface. Sweet.

The NYT speculates on what the mad scientists at Google have cooking in their labs, given that they just sold about $4 billion in stock.