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‘s post I thought I’d have a go myself. Nice toy they have there.

DHS “Neighborhood Watch” Hoax — volunteer to send all your data to the government in order to fight terrorism! :-)

Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t Personal Data — picking up fingerprints and putting them on government databases is okay in the US. Expect DNA next.

PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat —…

Here’s another one.

Highly recommended if you have the time.

Bruce Sterling on Spimes and the future of user interfaces in a highly networked world.
 
Alfred McCoy on the history of torture in US.
 
Clay Shirky about his new book Here Comes Everybody which discusses what happens now in our world of…

Tweaked one of my earlier ideas.

Edited to say… Grr — they put a new video up for a few hours and then pulled it again so now that one has a big hole in the middle…

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Section Five of the Terrorism Act 2000 states (edited, my highlights):

I’ve just finished watching Black Heaven (the series used for the Code Monkey mashup). What I expected to be an extremely silly concept of rock music saving the world (it’s sub-title is “HARK ROCK Save The Space!”) had a lot of standard anime cliche and silliness in it but the story is really about letting go of the…

Some very interesting Gallup polling on Democrats.

John McCain’s preacher on how Islam is set to destroy the world.

Band “shoots” video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing

7 insane conspiracies that actually happened — including President Bush’s grandfather trying to set up an American military coup (no-one denies this).

Hypocrite GOP House Leader Boehner wants wiretapping protection —…

I’m interested in people’s opinion about this — especially those involved in the law in any way.

Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case

The girl in question killed herself after he online boyfriend turned from being highly supportive (as opposed to her…