Mindless Link Propagation

This page lists the last 100 things Pre found interesting on the web.


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