| 1 | Reddit interviews Richard Stallman. Nice questions, some political, some technical. RMS is cool. |
| 2 | Much as I hate to pass along these pseudo-science PR studies: IT Workers (that's me!) best in bed. Oh yes. |
| 3 | They wanna spy on us, but won't let us spy on their plans how to do it. Australia! Net spying is bad. Mkay? |
| 4 | Hehe, Gillian McKeith liables Ben Goldacre, calling his book 'lies'. Suing would be funny, but poor show. |
| 5 | A short quiz on compiler optimization. Do you know which tricks gcc knows? Educational for us coders. |
| 6 | Hurray it's another #video from cyriak - this time featuring cows, and even a giant cow-spider! |
| 7 | Compiz has head tracking now? I wonder if being able to peer around a window is ever actually useful? |
| 8 | iDrugs - Tunes that get you high. Bwahhahhahhaa. |
| 9 | So they turned off the feed to my digibox's TV guide. Fuckers. Every time I go closed-source I regret it. |
| 10 | Booze and fags should be in the Misuse Of Drugs Act. Now we know the gov review agreed, and was suppressed. |
| 11 | If you ask 'how should we regulate' rather than 'shall we legalize' the polls on drugs look v. different |
| 12 | Video - Epic Win is a phone app to turn your todo list into an Role Playing Game. Silly stuff. |
| 13 | Manning, accused of leaking that wikileaks vid, has been charged, and not exactly hailed as the hero he is. :( |
| 14 | Newspapers attacking the BBC? Tory ones? Surely they're not hoping to break up their competitor? |
| 15 | Heath Claims In Health-food Lit, when tested, are 80% untrue. (via @bengoldacre) |
| 16 | Bob the angry flower makes bacon more perfect, by ensuring it doesn't exist. Ha! |
| 17 | An internet access guide fallen though a wormhole from 2025 explains how to access the DRMed up internet. |
| 18 | Street Countdown - It's like normal countdown, but on the street. @glinner is a comedy genius. |
| 19 | Excellent thoughts on Your Freedom from the Gov. Why it's clearly not actually meant to gather ideas at all. |
| 20 | Brilliant. RT @TransformDrugs: The Adventures of Methadone Man & Buprenorphine Babe: exciting new episode! |
| 21 | Swedish Pirate Party wanna host the Pirate Bay from inside their parliament. Good luck guys! |
| 22 | The government want us to tell 'em which laws are the most stupid. Prohibition seems stupid to me. Go vote! |
| 23 | Nice wikipedia page to refer to when the old lies about drugs come up *again*. Chemical Urban Legends. |
| 24 | @theweebl doesn't like twitter, but he does like @stephenfry and has written a nice song about him. |
| 25 | Hurray, Murdoch's filthy rag is off the free web! No more Times articles for me. Rah for paywalls. |
| 26 | Anti-booze bracelets for kids. I hope people will notice I'm not wearing one and buy me lots of lovely booze. |
| 27 | Scientific American on wanking, and the conceptual mental machinery required. Interesting stuff. |
| 28 | Crowd-sourced movie financing: Produce the trailer, then take donations to fund filming fun space-Nazi's. |
| 29 | DRM rant from the so-often-right-it's-incredible @doctorow, will government ever see the truth? |
| 30 | Cool story about a sad case of a writer having a stroke, but re-learning to read by tracing the letters. |
| 31 | Great column in the Guardian about the internet, learning to understand what it is, what it'll do. |
| 32 | Wicked stuff: a live-updating map of where the trains are on the London Tube network. |
| 33 | Blog about writing: making the leaders in your story believable, giving them vision. |
| 34 | Ooooh, google tools on the command line. That's ace. *starts thinking of uses* |
| 35 | Woah, this is cool: A self-replicating pattern in Conway's Game Of Life. Brilliant. |
| 36 | Looks like a great radio show coming up from Richard Dawkins and BBCRadio4: Age Of The Genome |
| 37 | Good news for journalists and lovers of freedom. Iceland passed it's whistleblower protection law! |
| 38 | A psychiatrists guide to polyamory. Nice to seem 'em embracing diversity instead of eliminating it. |
| 39 | Monbiot on the Tea Party and similar, what they're doing right, how they motivate. |
| 40 | YouGov, rapidly becoming the go-to polling agency for biased questions and getting the answer you want. |
| 41 | An excellent comparison of Daniel Okrent's history of alcohol prohibition with the drug war. |
| 42 | Go Wikileaks. Hope you have that data, hope you get it released, hope the bad government guys don't catch you. |
| 43 | Fancy a holiday? Have a budget? This is a handy little air-fare mashup puts prices on the google map. |
| 44 | Thom York: "Record companies will completely collapse within months". Anyone give me odds on that? |
| 45 | The FSF explain why no GPL software is allowed in itunes: coz Apple don't allow copying. Bad Apple! |
| 46 | Doctorow: if you're not making art with the intention of it being copied, you are not making contemporary art. |
| 47 | NewScientist on Universal Grammar. Many common language features may reflect reality, not abstract grammar. |
| 48 | iTunes and DRM and how they may well cancel ALL your stuff if someone breaks into your iTunes account. |
| 49 | A royal academy to protect the English language? WTF? I hope they all FOAD frankly. Bah. |
| 50 | This guy says he's figured out the best way to make chips. Double frying is obvious, is there more to it? |
| 51 | Armando Iannucci's rant on politics. He's right. We need to keep an eye on the tricky buggers. |
| 52 | Having lovely demos up is a great thing. Blocking them from other browsers is just crazy. Let it break! |
| 53 | Great article about beer, it's history and powers and the race to make a 50% ABV beer. |
| 54 | #music #video - Dan Bull's latest is a response to the #flotilla thing and is a pretty tune. |
| 55 | #video Some Grey Bloke discovers the purpose of #twitter - being ignored by #celebs in realtime. |
| 56 | Sin-Taxes, minimum beer prices etc, can psychologically ellicit reactance and *increase* the sinning. |
| 57 | #flotilla attacks blog post from my friend Wayne, good work Wayne. |
| 58 | 'Smokescreen' is a javascript flash player. That'll get some Flash on your iPad all right. Lol. |
| 59 | Jamaica is in terrible violent trouble. Guardian comment blog argues it's the fault of global prohibition. |
| 60 | Some b3tan makes his own printer out of lego and a felt tip pen. WoO! Yay. |
| 61 | California's Cananbis Legalization Ballot this November looks set to pass. What will happen? |
| 62 | Google banning it's employees from Windows for Security Reasons? Interesting development if true. |
| 63 | A graph of the OS/Processor/Power/Country/Manufacturer of the top 500 super-computers in the world. |
| 64 | I lucid dream a lot, and have played video games a lot. Perhaps these things are connected? |
| 65 | Government refusing to play on Question Time unless they veto the panel? That's certainly not cool. |
| 66 | #video - Me preaching at the 2004 End Of The World party in Brighton. Oh my. I had long hair back then. |
| 67 | Video - Dr Who Theme synced to some Tesla coils shocking a guy in a Faraday suit. Nice work :) |
| 68 | Cops steal legalization ballot forms. Nice one cops, way to show you can't be trusted to enforce democracy. |
| 69 | Wall Street Journal on the iPhone/Google-Phone war and how it may all fall out. |
| 70 | Science in the media - a nice little motivational rant on doing our explaining better. |
| 71 | Twitter's plans: useful 'promoted tweets' in the timeline. Hummm. Odds are they won't be useful to me. |
| 72 | #Video - What does science say about human motivations? Why do folks build free software? Not for cash! |
| 73 | The UKCIA on a FOI-Release government document on prohibition's justification. Good work DEA. |
| 74 | New government plans to open up government data, publish it all in machine-readable formats. Hurray! |
| 75 | Good article pointing out the massive discrimination inherent in drug prohibition |
| 76 | Synthetic Bacteria misunderstood and misreported in the press. An analysis. |
| 77 | Ben Goldacre's pleading to the government to review the effectiveness of drug policy too. |
| 78 | The Guardian encourages the government to consider repealing the drug laws. That'd be good. |
| 79 | Video: Dave Cameron talks about drugs, while skinning up. Remarkably quickly I might add. |
| 80 | UK offshore renewables could produce 2,130 terawatt hr/year by 2050. 6 times current electricity demand. |
| 81 | Germany's courts find software patents legal. That's bad for the software industry, bad for programmers. |
| 82 | Independent reports on Clegg's promises to give us back some freedom. Sounds good. Hope he keeps 'em. |
| 83 | The NY Times compares 'social' Facebook with the open web, which is of course more social than FB is. |
| 84 | Ben Goldacre's friend's graph may indicate unrestrained majority government is bad for the deficit. |
| 85 | b3ta linkbomb - politics |
| 86 | b3ta linkbomb - politics |
| 87 | b3ta linkbomb - politics |
| 88 | Election results breakdown sounds like call for PR to me. |
| 89 | Portillo on being defeated while a cabinet minister. I kinda like him a bit these days. Reminds me of my dad. |
| 90 | Canada joins the crap-copyright-laws club, or will do in six weeks at least. |
| 91 | Martyn Norris's blog on Liberal Democrats, lists many reasons to vote for 'em. |
| 92 | George Monbiot points out just how awful Labour's record actually is, endorses hang 'em. |
| 93 | Only a pirate, can call another pirate 'pirate'. Just like only a ninja, can sneak up on another ninja. |
| 94 | Charlie Brooker's great election rant focuses on the lack of humanity, the plastic candidates. |
| 95 | The Guardian talks about the web's influence on politics this campaign. |
| 96 | Ed Stratton, cannabis user, pleads not guilty then asks jury to convict. Read his excellent summary of why. |
| 97 | A post about Pasta and Copyright and DRM and stupid #deact |
| 98 | The Telegraph wonders how long copyright extension can go on. Good point. |
| 99 | Tim Minchin's Pope song. Which is fucking well sweary and offensive to religious types. Oh, and true. |
| 100 | Facebook's amazing disappearing privacy! See us slip down that slippery slope. (From the EFF) |
