“Pop musician Peter Gabriel launches ‘YouTube for human rights’” — ccShared

The War on the Unexpecte

1.8 million pages of US federal case law to go online for free

Just finished The Long Way Home. Uniformly excellent throughout. Never knew how much I’d missed these characters till they were back. No-one can write dialogue or keep characterisation to form like Joss can. It leaves a few questions unanswered and kills off one of the characters I liked (but who stays dead in Buffy anyway) but overall I can’t wait for the next one.

WoW has apparently hit 10 million subscribers worldwide . At roughly $15 a month that means Blizards income is roughly around the GDP of the 150th richest country.

Makes you wonder about actual big corporations and where they rank compared to big companies GDPs…

TSA to be trained to arrest people based on examining their facial expressions — hello facecrime.

If we think things are crazy in the US now — Herbert Hoover wanted to jail 12,000…

The Director of Public Prosecutions has said that the UK will no longer be using the phrase “War on Terror”.

If you thought the National ID card scheme was a bad ID…

151,000 Iraqis killed since invasion.

The Long Term Debt Crisis.

How Well “See Something, Say Something” Actually Works.

TSA searches, detains 5 year old because his name was on no-fly list and Another five-year-old on the no-fly list: meet Sam Adams these are…

How Mick Huckabee wants to gut the Constitution.

Bush calls for big tax breaks — Economy good, tax breaks. Economy bad, tax breaks!

Science fiction: a literature of ideas.

We can hear smiles — and tell big ones from little ones.

Blackest material EVAR.

“Twins who accidentally got married” is probably an urban…

I’ve been playing with the London Evening Standard headline generating machine…
 
 And while some of the one’s the come are sadly all too believable…

Every year the folks at Edge send the same question out to a large number of scientists, artists, etc and publish their answers. The 2007 question was “What have you changed your mind about?”. As with every year this, like TED, is a good way to judge what is currently “big” in the world…

Films mostly sequels and re-makes? Same TV shows and presenters from 30 years ago (even the good ones like Battlestar and Doctor Who)?

Things like this make me glad, yet again, that I hardly watch TV these days : Swap Shop in 2008 with Basil f’scking Brush.

Happy New Year everyone.

The Home Office have put out a discussion paper regarding possible changes to SOCPA following last year’s organised criticism of it (Mark Thomas, mass lone protests (mine and Claire’s) et al). They are asking people to write in with comment.

I’m going to copy the entire of Clay Shirky’s entry as it’s so good I might want to come back and find it later…

I was a science geek with a religious upbringing, an Episcopalian upbringing, to be precise, which is pretty weak tea as far as pious fervor goes. Raised in…