Toblog

Kristin Hersh puts her music online, as well as remix fodder
... cashmusic all sounds like rather a good idea

This is what happens when you get the populace to do state intelligence work for you

Want to buy a fake e-passport?

More government data loss – housing benefit this time

Buy Uranium on Amazon

The worst mixtape …ever?

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to to allow the sale of elephants in pet shops in the UK.

Duck news on That Blair ID Card Email

Man buys farm, finds locked barn on property, opens it and finds this

Music execs criticise DRM systems
... “Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks”

Australia slumps to 10 wicket defeat
... sorry Tim

Mimicking How the Brain Recognizes Street Scenes

Quantum computer successfully demonstrated
... there are videos but they are being slashdotted right now.

Bloglines gives free advertising to Darkgate
... bottom left of image

Study: P2P effect on legal music sales ‘not statistically distinguishable from zero’
... analysis from No Rock And Roll Fun

UK is accused of failing children

Security holograms getting easier to fake

‘Glorifying Terrorism’, a political science fiction anthology
... from Charlie Stross

Woman’s MySpace revenge

Robyn: swedish electronica
... “The most killingest pop star on the planet.”

Apparently no2id had eight complaints about this advert
... ASA threw the complaints out.

Alan Freeman dies

Charlie Stross on Litvinenko poisoning
... ‘The point is, someone with access to fresh Polonium 210 (read: less than a year old, hot from the reactor) decided to use it to bump off an enemy. And the terrorism alert status hasn’t risen a notch? Pull the other one.’

Abu Hamza Loses Appeal

Labour facing cash flow problems

The Big Opt Out

EU nations ‘knew about CIA jails’

Copyright extension rejected by Treasury

Interesting Danish Road Safety Technique (NSFW)

Police want power to crack down on offensive demo chants and slogans

Let us test Darwin, teacher says
... Comment from The Register

40% off all Wine & Champagne until 10th December in Threshers
... only being spread by blogs

Carbon nanotube knife

Japanese researchers build 512 core maths co-processor

comp.risks 24.46

Goldsmith agrees to stay out of cash-for-honours investigation
... BBC’s take on it here

Clairvoyant lead Americans to Saddam claims Geller

Sun inspired ‘careless driving’ law will lead to injustice

How to steal an election by hacking the vote

Bullet-proof text books may help save lives in school shooting

Sam and Max: Culture Shock review

Australian Institute of Criminology calles piracy losses ‘self-serving hyperbole’

Winning hearts and minds

Head of US National Association of Evangelicals resigns in gay sex row

Henry Porter: Standing up to Scrutiny

British believe Kim Jong-il less dangerous than Bush

World fastest street legal car
... and it is too old for road tax too!

A great chairman’s statement
... the fun stuff starts at ‘I’d like to express some personal views’

Trademark’s last gig with their current stage show

Curry keeps brain healthy

Angry German kid, translated

Killer wasp brings passport office to standstill

A tempered reaction to yesterday’s news about Tony Blair wanting everyone’s DNA on file

Firefox 2 formally released

BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security

Quebec pulls plug on electronic voting
... the report is here

Some cool mashup mixes