Nick Drew on how Gordon’s blatent borrowing against the future and off balance sheet shenanigans are slowly coming home to roost

The Usmanov Affair hits Slashdot

Michael Robertson on why AnywhereCD failed

Microsoft to buy minority stake in facebook

Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones ‘permanently inoperable’
… or: Apple: This phone you bought from us, right? You can’t do what you want with it.

Statewatch analyses The EU’s draft Reform Treaty

Burmese riot police attack monks

Euro realist MEP Tom Wise uses parliamentary privilege to spell out the allegations against Alisher Usmanov

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow the Red Arrows to Fly at the 2012 Olympics

A physics teacher begs for his subject back

Why England is rotting
… “England leads Europe in illiteracy, obesity, divorce, drug use, crime and STDs. Bloody hell.”

City Unslicker on the coming share crash

Stop using hotmail if you care about receiving mails
… I know a lot of people who haven’t received emails that they have been expecting and looking at logs of the ones from my servers they do get delivered. Hotmail is therefore dropping mails without warning to either their users or the sending server.

Crypto boffins urge Belgium to withdraw early ePassports

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