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Poor old dead Neil Armstrong. here he is a couple of years ago telling a blogger why he stayed so near.

This is what the Dutch pirate party want to achieve. This is what I want too.we can demand it.

Cool! Throw random images at facial recognition tech. Then mutate the best-fit to get random faces!

UKCIA make good points on synthetic drug manufacture and it’s implications to prohibition.

Pirate Bay Spokesman’s letter to parliament asking for a pardon describes outrageous corruption.

Youtube video in which a guy talks to his 12 year old self through the use of video technology!

Nice song from @robmanuel who’s life growing up was very like mine. Like our. Me and you Internet, you sexy thing.

Mathematician’s lament – 25 page rant about the beauty of maths, and it’s ruination by schooling. [pdf]

The new Con/Lib NHS: ‘an anachronistic insurance scheme, divorced from the actual delivery of any care’

Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses are creepy and annoying even as a fantasy.

Some neat analysis of the “13% increase in death” headline associated with red meat.

Felicia Day groks web films. The Washington Post interview her about her new youtube channel.

Timelapse video of footage from Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ is three minutes of really well done stuff.

A Ted talk on ‘Copyright Maths’ which humorously explores the meaning of reported piracy losses. 🙂

While the UN is discussing prohibition without questioning it, Google and i^2 are having a real debate.

Nice but too-long ‘Agile Software’ Development’ rant saying much what I suspect about the ‘methodology’

Eternal Copyright – A modest Proposal. “But what about the great-great-great-grandchildre n?”. Nice one.

Haha! Supply Side Jesus, a short comic strip about two different Jesuses and their political stances.

How doctors choose to die: mostly not taking invasive medical care. Are some treatments worse than death?

Good grief, Madonna’s half time show at the superbowl was awesome then huh? Haven’t watched one before.

Congratulations to India on a Polio-Free year! Achieved vaccination and local ownership of education.

Ben Goldacre’s prediction on how the current NHS bill will proceed: GPs set up to fail, then privatized.

‘the publishing industry has lost all credibility as the keeper of culture it imagines itself to be.’

Even left wing politicians don’t seem to want to talk about raising taxes. ‘Why?’ asks The Guardian.

Ah, the Olympics WILL have a lasting legacy in London. A legacy of pointless bureaucratic fascist rules. Nice one.

The Guardian talk to the Pirate Party founder about the fastest growing political movement in Europe. Yay!

The difference between a reader’s taste and a publishers taste and why publishers get it so oft wrong.

A lovely little tool for making CSS3 style sheets with fancy pants rules.

The NY Times has an author on the problems with teamwork and how working alone fosters creativity.

Ten years before the end of the world in 1998, the band CUD sang about slack on the BBC.

The UK Pirate Party leader on the BPI sales figures this year showing the media just follow their spin.

Cla Shirky writes on the future of newspapers with so-called ‘leaky’ pay-walls as they become popular.

A short story by the awesome Greg Egan called ‘Crystal Nights’, which I enjoyed a lot!

Eorwid article on false positives from police dog alerts. The dogs do what they think the cops want.

Cory Doctorow’s talk on the coming war against general computing is great.

An account of the arrest of Occupy LA protesters getting the boot while Wall Street fraudsters get rewarded.

Salon tells the story of The Papua New Guinean tribesman on facebook. Really interesting.

The music for the anti-piracy advert on millions of DVDs is itself pirated!

Polly Toynbee’s Guardian article on Osborne’s declaration of war on the poor is excellent.

Uk Uncut protestors pose as vodafone to go thank the tax-man for letting ’em off so much tax.

Groklaw on Microsoft’s nasty patent behaviour against Android. Software patents suck.

Yay! It’s a new Cyriak video, and it’s got cats! Mutant monster kitty cats!

What happens when 20 minutes worth of fireworks accidentally goes up in 50 seconds instead? Cool happens.

CEO wages go up as fast as ever. Do they deserve it, or is it just a con? Via @theoesc

The Creative Commons Website for all your campaigning needs!

Graphics and charts showing exactly what #OWL and #occupyLSX are complaining about. Don’t buy the lie that they don’t know.

Economist mourns the passing of Richie, who invented the unix era. Are we now entering Unix’s Anno Domini?