Toblog

Snowflakes promise faster chips

Imagine London, 1843

Government canceled e-vote schemes amid security fears

‘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

Verbotomy! – create words to match definitions

Firefox gets support for CardSpace
... only on Windows so far, though.

Reuters debuts machine-readable news for automatic stock trading

Half decent looking spectacles with ‘heads up display’ / microdisplay
... Manufacturer’s website

Larger sized clothes ‘should come with warning to lose weight’

Reindeer Tipping the game

The Psychology of conjurers

How to network, for introverts

Home office child porn expert admits child porn charge

The phony war on Christmas

Smart Card Alliance criticizes RFID passport plans

Firefox 3 Alpha Released

Sense of smell may be tied to quantum physics

Wordie: like flickr but without the photos

DNA ‘should be taken from babies’
... “It is about time we had a debate about whether we want to turn from a nation of citizens into one of suspects”—Liberty

The PPL FT advert included dead people

New York Times on dangers of Computerised Health Records

There will be a paucity of updates this week because the Internet is crap I am on a training course sans Internet access… feel free to amuse yourselves in the mean time in whichever way you see fit (unless anyone wants to do this for me for the next three days – get in touch if so).

Until Monday!

And while London Burns
... ‘a compelling collision of thriller, opera and guided walk’

A petition ‘To publicly acknowledge that there is a massive discipline problem in many State Schools and to give teachers and Headteachers the necessary powers to enforce discipline and to deal effectively with problem pupils and their parents.’

22 ways to overclock your brain

The making of a Father Christmas

John Bolton quits UN post

The results of Microsoft Asia’s RSS Usage Survey

Contributors to today’s TCSOTD: Jess

A good guide to the new PAYG Oyster Card Rules

Alexander Litvinenko dies in hospital

Ban on mp3 transmitters lifted

Cow abductions are on the rise

Pentax releases water proof, dust resistant SLR camera
... oh and it’s rather bling as well

Talking of bling
... Gold USB hub

Dollar loses ground against Euro
... against the Pound too: now at £1.93

comp.risks 24.47

Breakthrough in understanding of Human Genetics

Interactive whiteboard technology

Global Orgasm Day, December 22nd
... ‘peace through global ecstasy’

Longer drinking hours seem to be producing fewer problems
... Tim Worstall’s analysis

Goldsmith says he has seen no evidence to increase suspect holding time to 90 days

New Zealand Minister defends right of school girl to run amok in underwear

Robert Altman dies

Parents halt mosque school trip
... “did not want their children exposed to a religion that was not their own.”

GPs threaten to snub NHS database

RFID passports less reliable than normal ones

The plastinated brain

Paintball minigun in development

Red tape blog

Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition Maps from 1940s scanned in
... add your postcode to the map

Police to take fingerprints on street
... Henry Porter responds

Police accepted gifts from scientology allegation
... why are the police allowed to accept gifts at all?

Bruce Sterling on Home Office RFID Passport Cock Up

Physicists trying to send message back through time

London suffers transport meltdown