Toblog

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

DNA database ‘puts innocent under suspicion’
... [17:50] ORG’s opinion

Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal
... Groklaw’s take

‘10% chance’ of house price crash

Harman pleads guilty to speeding

Microsoft claims 235 violated patents in Linux

Some excellent reviews for Richard Littlejohn’s book

Pupils petrified by gunman drill

Hospital choice irrelevant say patients
... Dr Rant says it better than I could.

Ice cream helps make babies

A tube map for those who prefer to walk

A fish with no red blood cells

Pentax busts out Hasselbladian 31.6 megapixel 645 Digital

Open letter to Steven Ballmer: Show Us The Code!

James Cameron claims to have found grave of Jesus & Son

U.S Terrorism Arrests/Convictions Significantly Overstated

Canada rejects anti-terrorism laws

Committee on Standards of Public Life call for halt of May e-voting pilots

A snippet of ‘The Dildo Diaries’ talking about legality of sex toys in Texas

What to do if ‘Access Denied’ is all you get from your Samba printers in Windows

Confidential Microsoft emails posted online
... ‘I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft’—Jim Allchin

Archbishop in Police State warning

Davis: we will axe ID card scheme

US immigration cavity search ends in agony

Iris use dropped in ID Card plans

Fusion reactors in 10 years claim

Internet Explorer unsafe for 284 days in 2006

Part of Russian rocket lands in Wyoming

The problem with OpenXML
... ‘not only must an interoperable OOXML implementation first acquire and reverse-engineer a 14-year old version of Microsoft Word, it must also do the same thing with a 16-year old version of WordPerfect.’

15 tips to choose a good text type

Quit [Smoking] Counter

Humble Little Ruby Book

Riverbend’s take on Saddam’s hanging / lynching

Lord Levy in abuse of tax payer’s money allegation

New Scientist compiles a list of fun materials

‘After a sinister year it’s down to us to protect our freedoms’
... Henry Porter back on form

Well, that didn’t take long

Every Step You Take
... A one hour documentary about video surveillance in Britain.

Photos taken through a microscope

Yep, I’m still not going to the US

2006 Darwin Awards

Microsoft’s evolution in keywords