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title: Digital Britain and USB Flash Drives
date: 2009-05-06T18:45:37+00:00
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# Digital Britain and USB Flash Drives

[![Digital Britain logo](/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/digital-britain-logo-150x109.png "Digital Britain logo")](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7858062.stm "BBC explains what Digital Britain is about")Digital Britain logo



While the [ideas behind](http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/5631.aspx) the [*Digital Britain* initiative](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7858062.stm "BBC explains what Digital Britain is about") are really great and noble, its logo is quite the opposite — what is the connection between **a flash drive** and an open access to information and its distribution networks?

Every letter in the logo is supposed to symbolize a *node* attached to Britain’s information network, which sounds like a good explanation until you put it on a USB thumb drive.

*Update*: maybe it is meant to be a wireless modem?

p.s. Links on Britain’s *[Department for Culture, Media and Sport](http://www.culture.gov.uk/index.aspx)* website are set in dark purple and are not underlined, which makes it hard even for me to distinguish them from normal text.