Brain sucking internet sucks brain
I came down to the mezzanine level of the hotel – about the only place I can get a semi-reliable wi-fi signal – with a plan to absorb some of the internet (or at least deal with some emails and try to clear some of the 1000+ unread Google Reader items) and I’ve managed somehow [...]
Theft
Once again, he hotlinks XKCD, but it’s a message worth spreading (click to embiggen): (And as Reynolds pointed out, The Open Rights Group fights against this sort of nonsense, so please, if you feel at all strongly about this, join them)
From the ORG – A community photocall
A request comes from Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group (link): Happy-snappers unite! We need as many people as possible to take photos of stuff that embodies the database state, and the UK’s world-famous surveillance society (wake up! You’ve just walked into it). On 11 October, No2ID and the Open Rights Group will make [...]
Another petition for you
Another link to another petition for you, this time via BoingBoing (link) and the Open Rights Group: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to abandon plans to create the Information Sharing Index, a national database of all children aged between birth and eighteen. You can find the petion at petitions.pm.gov.uk as usual. Right, that's [...]
