Toblog

Criminal Profiling – Just Cold Reading Tricks?

The history of Nokia mobile phones

iPhone first night: a flop in the UK
... makes me proud to be British again ;).
... more from Idiot Toys

Government Ignores Personal Medical Security

Ballad of Beatrice Guessie
... sometimes one can’t help but come to the conclusion that we are ‘ruled’ by scum.

Bike sex man placed on probation

Gene for left-handedness found

Why brainstorming is a bad idea

The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting

Nurses show doubts about Electronic Patient Records

Alan Johnston is released

BMA votes for non co-operation on central records

Could the London property market be cooling?

UK Gov boots intelligent design back into ‘religious’ margins

US Airport fingerprint program expanding
... even more reason not to go

A little reminder of the utter tosh that Blair talked

John Smeaton – Hero For Our Time

Some in-depth background to that silly girl and her Silver Ring court case
... it’s sad but my first thought when I heard about this was “I wonder what link her family has to the Silver Ring Thing”

US Forth Amendment Rights have been extended to email

The ‘Law Abiding Majority’ doesn’t exist
... “More than six out of 10 people regularly commit crimes against the government, their employers or businesses, research suggests.”
... Ideal Government’s take on it

Department of Health caught editing history to agree with party line
... Dr Rant rants

First Vista only game cracked to work on XP

A worthwhile petition: bring back proper physics education

Some good comment on the ORG evoting report

Some lovely satire from Ken MacLeod: ‘Antichrist role ‘could hinder’ Blair’s conversion’

Why is last.fm not joining the day of silence protest
... more info here

600 space hoppers on the Millennium Bridge

Pound touches 14-year dollar high

Close to 25% of Use Rate in Europe for Firefox

The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products

UK inflation hits 3.1% in March

‘Action needed’ on NHS computers

City of London prepares for blanket Wi-Fi

All about the US watchlists

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers
... ‘Geeks have seen all the porn you can imagine and then some’

The NHS Database: Lord Warner’s opt out decoy.
... ‘A review of persisting privacy and confidentiality issues.’

NASA virtual flyby of Mars Rover landing site
... there’s another one here

GooPs: Google Earth GPS tracking and navigation

City Unslicker’s take on the recent fun on the markets

Sign to support academic freedom in Iraq

NHS Blog Doctor on the Private Eye’s NHS IT report

Iraq Dossier – The Facts
... a first draft of the dossier is apparently to be published tomorrow in the New Statesman.

Alien technology the best hope to ‘save our planet:’ ex-defence boss

£6.2bn IT scheme for NHS ‘is not working and is not going to work’