Category Archives: Media

Out-Law.com

July 13, 2007 – 12:15 pm

Out-Law.com really is a great site. It is the best for UK IT law news and second only (but a loooong second however) to IPKat for IP news. However one of the things that tickles Geeklawyer is how every time they need a rent-a-quote lawyer they go to Pinsent Masons, for example this;
“[blah] according to […]

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The world is saved: free music now available

August 29, 2006 – 9:13 pm

Geeklawyer stripped and ran naked through the streets of his city in celebration when the BBC began broadcasting the news today that Universal was to make music available for free.

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Unlimited data download plans: ‘unlimited’ means what exactly?

May 16, 2006 – 5:18 pm

Geeklawyer was perusing the Advertising Standards Authority web site, because he’s a bit of a saddo with nothing better to do, and tripped over the latest example of marketeers mangling the English language.
What do you think unlimited means?

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More annoying lawyer stereotypes

May 2, 2006 – 10:42 pm

Geeklawyer was busy watching the usual tosh on TV, Chav-Enders as he recalls, when up popped an advert for the latest BBC drama New Street Law. Cue John Actor, well John Thompson in fact, playing the role of, sigh, a sleazy lawyer and proud of it;

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Blue Peter badges

March 28, 2006 – 6:32 pm

Auntie seems to be getting her knickers in a twist about the sale of Blue Peter badges on eBay. These badges always seemed, to Geeklawyer, to be awarded to utter swots; but despite being teachers’ pets it seems to be entirely reasonable to let them dispose of their property as they will.

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V for Vendetta

March 24, 2006 – 7:56 pm

Rather than working this afternoon the ever slothful and indolent Geeklawyer skived off and went to the Cinema to watch V for Vendetta. Derived from a comic book by David Lloyd & Alan Moore (thanks Lilian), the latter of whom who was unaccountably unhappy with it, and with screenplay by the Wachowski Brothers it revolved […]

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