3d reconstruction from a single image

New 4100 lumen flashlight can set things alight

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

Techdirt on that Last.fm announcement

Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and Peter Goldsmith for war crimes

Ross Anderson asks: ‘is the Financial Ombudsman losing it?’

Unshredding East Germany’s past

Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn

Chicken Backup’s excellent post on the new Anti-Terrorism bill
… I have to include this quote from Jacqui Smith:

It won’t be hypothetical if and when it occurs, that’s precisely the point. We are not legislating now on the basis that we’re bringing it in now for something that might happen in the future. We’re putting in a provision for if it becomes unhypothetical. If unfortunately I and many other experts and right and we do need it in the future it is in place in legislation.

Just. Unbelievable.

Peter Hain Resigns

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

Craig Murray on Jacqui Smith’s cynical use of terrorism to attempt to deflect the media glare from Labour’s woes

Jahongir Sidikov’s deportation has been postponed

Shoot UK teacher, say protesters

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.

Petition to abandon plans to create the Information Sharing Index

Henry Porter: A mass movement is needed to tackle the state’s snoopers
… hint: Open Rights Group is a good place to start

Ben Goldacre on Biometrics

‘Biometrics are not a panacea for data loss’:A letter to the Joint Committee on Human Rights

Innocents fear DNA database errors
… ‘In the past year, more than 100 possible inaccuracies in the documentation of DNA profiles have been discovered, and a further 1,500 administrative mistakes have been logged on the system.’

A Chinese man is suing for divorce after discovering that he is the father of only one of his twins.

Taxpayer may have to pay £170bn for PFI schemes, says Treasury

Miss Mind the Gap sacked
… oh dear, TfL seem to have lost their corporate sense of humour

Iraqi Employees of UK Forces, an update: Letting Them Die

The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub

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