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  • 23/01/2012 - The Guardian talk to the Pirate Party founder about the fastest growing political movement in Europe. Yay!
  • 20/01/2012 - The difference between a reader's taste and a publishers taste and why publishers get it so oft wrong.
  • 16/01/2012 - A lovely little tool for making CSS3 style sheets with fancy pants rules.
  • 15/01/2012 - Ten years before the end of the world in 1998, the band CUD sang about slack on the BBC.
  • 15/01/2012 - The NY Times has an author on the problems with teamwork and how working alone fosters creativity.
  • 12/01/2012 - The UK Pirate Party leader on the BPI sales figures this year showing the media just follow their spin.
  • 05/01/2012 - Cla Shirky writes on the future of newspapers with so-called 'leaky' pay-walls as they become popular.
  • 05/01/2012 - A short story by the awesome Greg Egan called 'Crystal Nights', which I enjoyed a lot!
  • 03/01/2012 - Eorwid article on false positives from police dog alerts. The dogs do what they think the cops want.
  • 29/12/2011 - Cory Doctorow's talk on the coming war against general computing is great.
  • 09/12/2011 - An account of the arrest of Occupy LA protesters getting the boot while Wall Street fraudsters get rewarded.
  • 07/12/2011 - Salon tells the story of The Papua New Guinean tribesman on facebook. Really interesting.
  • 02/12/2011 - The music for the anti-piracy advert on millions of DVDs is itself pirated!
  • 30/11/2011 - Polly Toynbee's Guardian article on Osborne's declaration of war on the poor is excellent.
  • 17/11/2011 - Uk Uncut protestors pose as vodafone to go thank the tax-man for letting 'em off so much tax.
  • 16/11/2011 - Groklaw on Microsoft's nasty patent behaviour against Android. Software patents suck.
  • 11/11/2011 - Yay! It's a new Cyriak video, and it's got cats! Mutant monster kitty cats!
  • 07/11/2011 - What happens when 20 minutes worth of fireworks accidentally goes up in 50 seconds instead? Cool happens.
  • 28/10/2011 - The Creative Commons Website for all your campaigning needs!
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  • 28/10/2011 - CEO wages go up as fast as ever. Do they deserve it, or is it just a con? Via @theoesc
  • 24/10/2011 - Graphics and charts showing exactly what #OWL and #occupyLSX are complaining about. Don't buy the lie that they don't know.
  • 21/10/2011 - Economist mourns the passing of Richie, who invented the unix era. Are we now entering Unix's Anno Domini?
  • 20/10/2011 - Copyright holders and their contempt for their audience. Monopolies tend to do that.