Category: link

Copyright holders and their contempt for their audience. Monopolies tend to do that.

Someone sues facebook for violating wiretap laws. Is not keeping the data an legal excuse?

The NYT on Dennis RItchie’s death. He’ll live on, in a sense, through C and Unix.

The Atlantic on a google email account being hacked, and computer security in general. Good but long story.

Ha, interview with @robolollycop about his book in which he extols the virtues of editing. Maybe he’s finally learned!

Already told my phone ISP to stop blocking random things it thinks are porn. Now I’ll have to tell my home ISP too.

The Independent on Charles C Mann’s book describing the history of prohibition… of tobacco.

George Monbiot on government’s cuts to social welfare rather than corporate welfare

You all know that the FBI set up that guy with the remote controlled airplanes, right? They ‘foiled’ their own plot.

Ben Goldacre’s TED talk, in which he talks about evidence and improving our science processes.

A five minute video with Matt/Trey following their weekly work doing Southpark.

Part 2 of Jon Ronson's video investigation of astroturfing on the net. His voice is so soothing.

Adam Curtis on Think Tanks and Freedom Of Choice. I heard his voice in my head as I read this. Excellent.

A good article describing the decent into insanity of US Republican party politics.

A top Salon article on the disaster capitalists taking over schools.

Robert Wilson's old 70s article in “Oui” on quantum and consciousness things. Interesting, but unlikely.

'The government has no coherent digital rights policy' – dead right.

Awesome, now bus-stops get the 'live departure board' treatment. Know when the next bus arrives!

Some pictures of a beach formed from dumped bottles: Glass beach. ( Via @theoesc )

Chomsky lays out the current world/US situation with his usual candor and eloquence.

Ok Go and the Muppets doing a video together? That's as much fun in three minutes as you'd expect. Lots.

RMS says the lawyers and politicians try yet again to sneak software patents into Europe. Bastards.

Casey Hardison's legal case on the government to force it to bring tobacco and alcohol under the Drugs Act

What happens to a country that goes bankrupt but refuses IMF demands? Look to Iceland to see.

What happens when you video with your iphone from inside a guitar, strobing the strings? Cool happens!

I like looking at this 'Where's Wall-E' picture mostly for looking for OTHER robots. Very nice.

A wicked bit of data visualization showing the results of a sex survey. Fun to play with!

An Al Jiazeera report on western democracies following the oppressive regimes towards 'net censorship

Good news everyone! The cannabis genome project is complete! We can now spell cannabis in DNA.

The guy who put a pie in Murdoch's face has some kinda prison diary here which is interesting.

'More Trustworthy Than Murdoch' isn't a great slogan, but the BBC are indeed ace as this blogger says.

Adam Curtis 'rough-cut' on newspapers and political power pre-Murdoch. Curtis rocks so much.

Fingers crossed that this guy's right and google make G+ into the “backbone” of an open social network.

A nice Scientific American article on the evidence for multi-verses and parallel worlds.

Email hacking to get the dirt on phone-hacking to get the dirt on celeb shagging. What a crazy world.

Will Hollywood repeat the Music Businesses mistakes? Pirate content still BETTER than legit.

Interesting proposals on how to make the banking system safer, and short vid on where money comes from.

A link to Google's Web Fonts, which appears to be a nice way to spruce up a website. That'll come in dead handy.

New Scientist article on evolving multi-cellular life in the lab. Unexpected result, easier than expected.

Nice article that expresses the niggling annoyances I've been having with ORMs lately #programming

Ideas are sexy! The WSJ on 'collective brains' and the invention of invention, how ideas interact.

Harsh but fair IMF rant from @johannhari101 is a good read if you wanna feel righteously angry.

Nice little copyfight rant from @doctorow – The pirates become the mainstream, then complain of piracy.

Edge.org's 2011 question: Scientific concepts to improve thinking. Great answers from smart people.

Eli Pairiser's TED interesting talk is about how the robots at Facebook and Google control what you see.

An excellent rap from Juice Media on the assassination of Bin Laden.These guys keep doing well.

Good one: Australia considers banning all plants containing DMT. Which is lots. Inc. their national flower.

The UKCIA take us through the connections between cannabis, mental health, and prohibition. Good writeup.

Information Is Beautiful present a chart summarizing the evidence for health benefits of various remedies

Chomsky on Bin Laden: 'the operation was a planned assassination…violating international law”