RoneBreak Contributor: Chris Skoyles

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Chris Skoyles is a writer from Wigan, now living in Preston, Lancashire. His work is focussed on music, entertainment, technology and social issues. For more info, please visit www.chrisskoyles.com or http://blog.chrisskoyles.com

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Web Creator Cleans Up Net

The creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says more needs to be done to banish false information and rumours from the web.

Talking to the UK’s BBC News prior to the launch of a new World Wide Web Foundation which aims to improve online accessibility, Sir Tim says he is becoming ever more concerned about the amount of false information published into cyberspace.

To help combat such a problem, The World Wide Web Foundation plans to help weed out rumours and rubbish information by vetting websites and marking those deemed to be reliable sources of news and information.

However, he was the first to admit that this may be a more complicated matter than meets the eye. Read more

Kim’s Car Ban

Motorists won’t be seeing actor, Daniel Dae Kim on the roads any time soon. The actor, who plays Jin-Soo Kwon in hit TV show, Lost, has been hit with a six month driving suspension following a conviction for drunk-driving.

The 40 year-old actor was arrested last October after being spotted swerving and swaying in his vehicle whilst driving through Honolulu, making him the show’s third star to be picked up on D.U.I charges in Hawaii. In 2005, Kim’s co-stars, Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros were both convicted of drunk driving on the island.

Kim, who must now pay $712 in costs and carry out 72 hours of community service, told the press that he was “just grateful and relieved that this matter has been resolved.”

“It’s been a pretty difficult time for my family and me,” he added, “but I’m glad I had a chance to take responsibility for my mistake.”

Prince Takes Toddler To Court

A young toddler is at the centre of another legal battle instigated by Universal Records over claims of copyright infringement.

The bouncing baby was filmed bopping along to a song by The Artist Once Again Known as Prince in a video posted on video-sharing website, Youtube, by his mother, Stephanie Lenz.

The 29-second clip was posted back in February, but when bigwigs at Universal got wind of it several months later, they had the clip quickly and discreetly removed and probably hoped they’d hear no more about it. Read more

Will the World Really End on Wednesday?

The Big Bang Machine

Europeans switch on the ‘Big Bang Machine’.

Scientists on the French/Swiss border are about to embark on a mammoth experiment which sceptics say could spell the end of the world.

The particle accelerator experiment, due to be launched on Wednesday, September 10^th, is hoped to reveal amazing new secrets about the birth of our universe, allowing us to understand more about how we came to be by smashing particles into one another in what can almost be described as a re-enactment of the ‘Big Bang’.

However, those opposed to the test say there’s every chance that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), also informally known as ‘The Big Bang Machine’, the device at the centre of all this, could effectively bring about a rather unwelcome apocalypse.

A small-yet-vocal minority of pessimists worry that the experiment isn’t completely safe, and that the LHC could potentially spew out the odd micro black hole with the potential to swallow the earth.

But is this likely? Read more

Saints Engage in London Conversations

Saint Etienne, who release their 'Best Of' collection later this month.

British indie-dance pioneers, Saint Etienne, are set to release a definitive, double-disc collection of hits spanning their twenty-year career.

‘London Conversations’, the new album from Croydon-based trio, Sarah Cracknall, Pete Wiggins and Bob Stanley is a bold display from a group who seemed to have had their finger firmly on the pulse of alternative pop for the best part of two decades. The band are often credited with helping lay some early foundations for the much-documented ‘Britpop’ phenomenon which held the helm at the crest of the British music scene in the mid-late nineties. Read more