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22
Nov
2009
The Noble Savage Space

1 hour ago by Keith

Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool | Bryan Appleyard - Times Online Cyberspace was born free, but everywhere it is in chains. Once a promised land inhabited by visionaries, libertarians and freedom fighters, it has become a war zone. “The Harry Potter age of the internet,” says Professo ...

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The New Louisiana Purchase

7 hours ago by indyfromaz

The Great Bribe of the 21st Century. Washington Post: And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. “I am not going to be defensive,” she declared. “And it’s not a ...

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Giono, Himelstein, Shelden, Wilson, Kilcullen

8 hours ago by Laure Paquette, PhD

Since my last post,I've read an issue of Gentleman's Quarterly, OK Magazine, The New Scientist and Eclectic Reading. I have also read the first three volumes of Jean Giono's novels, which are in chronological order, and his essays, journal, and short stories. I found his essays and journal of little ...

Reading - paquettereading.blogspot.com · 1 reference

21
Nov
2009
Apple: Making 2009 just like 1984.

1 day ago by 013

Apple is skillfully misdirecting it's customers. Some Apple customers even seem to enjoy lying to themselves about their Macs. I hear users praise macs as never having problems, even as I am in the process of fixing a problem on their machine. They see themselves as rebels, and revolutionaries. They ...

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Coming soon to a kid near you: electroshock “therapy”

1 day ago by kiddr

North of the border, David Strang, the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police, has come clean and said that the suitability of tasers in Scotland is still to be proved, arguing that CS spray and body armour were adequate enough defences for officers on the beat. About 700 police officers in S ...

New Labour, New Stasi - stasination.wordpress.com

20
Nov
2009
urm, so is this when i lose everything?

1 day ago by collectivewritingsofmasonmcenery

right, today, have been a hard and emotional day for me on several occasions. which im not going to go in to on here, as it is private to myself, and i moan endlessly about others posting about there lives on the internet, some things, you have to keep private i guess. anyway, apart from my rubbish ...

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The end of P2P? Or just the end of privacy?

2 days ago by kiddr

That slimey reptilian known as Mandelson has got his own way. Again. As usual. (Well, he does run this Demokratische Republik, so it isn’t that much of a surprise.) The new Digital Economy Bill will force ISPs to penalise those “persistently observed infringing copyright via peer-to-peer networks.” ...

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Haterz > TF1 vs Orwell

2 days ago by Truk

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Reach the World – Connecting US classrooms to travelers around the world

2 days ago by dongomezjr

Video “We are surrounded by inches! They are all around us!”

– One of the things that I am doing while in Egypt, is participating in a program called Reach the World (RTW). RTW is a non-profit based in New York that connects classrooms in the United States to American travelers abroad through the internet. The idea behind RTW is to add an interactive componen ...

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Paul Clarke’s response

2 days ago by kiddr

By now, everyone – except the editors of the MSM, it seems – has heard about Paul Clarke and the sawn-off shotgun. He has now emerged from the bunker and given a statement to his local rag, This Is Surrey Today, who are also the only print newspaper in the UK that have reported his case.* No further ...

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