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According to The Register :

Identity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register

HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Noooo, that’s not going to be open to huge abuse. Not at all.

I predict a FAIL.

Can we please stop wasting much needed cash on this mess now?

FT editorial against ID Cards

The Brightonomicon Radio Series Website

How to make Bacon Vodka

Chicken Backup on why the ID card really will be compulsory

TECHNOVIKING!

A good article about the recent right to Bail fuss

Tories: Europeans could get access to UK ID database
… can we just get rid of this idiocy now, please?

RIPA used for non-terrorist investigation shock
… not really a shock, now, is it. Sometimes I really hate saying I told you so.

Meta-analysis uncovers no real link between violence and gaming

Data fiasco forces ministers into ID cards review

It is possible to reconstruct fingerprints from templates

‘Probable’ new Foot and Mouth leak from farm in Pirbright

Brown to scrap ID Card Plan
ID cards could be delayed as PM calls for review into technology
ID cards plan behind schedule and soaring in cost, say critics
… but ID cards ‘not being scrapped’

EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing

The Liberal Conspiracy

Study: Users of ‘free’ music buy more music

Westboro Baptist Church successfully sued
… you know, the ‘God Hates Fags’ idiots.

Likely Lib-Dem leader in ‘no to ID card data’ pledge

Police guilty over Menezes case

Marriage seeker gets short shrift
… copy of craiglist entry here

Say hello to whole life logging
… yet more reason to dump ID Cards

Schneier on the latest RIPA idiocy

Latest comp.risks: 24.85

Performer gets third ear for art

Shameless self promotion

Marc Andreessen’s top ten Science Fiction reads of the 00s
… I have a very similar unfinished post on these lines.

Indy Film ‘Four Eyed Monsters’ released on You Tube for free

Natalie Portman: cognitive neuroscientist

German teen unplugs pensioner’s ‘noisy’ life support machine

What happens when British Airways loses your luggage? Pretty much nothing…

Girls just aren’t turned on by man boobs: Yet another waste of NHS money

Liam Byrne: ID Cards to be ‘great British institution’ on a par with the railways in the 19th Century
… good, so totally ruined by political interference and mismanagement then?</sweeping generalization>

The Independent publishes utter rubbish shock

Dr Rant on the question of GPs opening for longer

Americans attempt to patent Yoga

Government resists ID Card scrutiny

Video released of BBC’s Johnston