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Category Archives: General
The Big Three parties on Digital Rights
The manefestos of all three big political parties include policy proposals which will affect our digital rights. By Digital rights I’m talking about the human-rights, laws and prohibitions which affect the way we use the Internet and the ways that … Continue reading
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Gore, can you fix this?
No, not the former vice-president – I’m talking about the employee-owned sportswear, textile and polymer company. Recently I bought a Gore-Tex jacket made by the Gore Bike-Wear company. Gore make some very expensive cycling garments. Mostly their stuff is awesome … Continue reading
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Glenn Beck, meet Barbra Streisand
You may have seen the rumour about Fox News presenter Glenn Beck. According to “some” people he “might” have committed a whole bunch of unspeakable crimes nineteen years ago. As rumours go these are even more preposterous than the ones … Continue reading
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Does anybody remember “Binky and Boo”?
Binky and Boo was a 1988 animated short directed by Derek Hayes (the same guy who did the rather spooky “Skywhales“) . I’ve not yet found a copy of it on the Internet anywhere, but I did find a brief … Continue reading
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An anatomy of an eBay fraud #ebayfail
The eBay scam I reported last week seems to have moved into a second, more sinister phase: I’m no longer recieving the deluge of calls from befuddled eBay members. Unfortunately I’m getting a bunch of calls from irate eBayers asking … Continue reading
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Spammed by eBay? #ebayfail
For the last 2 hours I’ve been overwhelmed by calls from disgruntled, worried eBay customers. Â It seems that eBay have sent a few hundred people (my best guess) an email advising them that I’ve recieved their money for a 2nd … Continue reading
On the tendancy of some Christians to imagine that Jesus invented happiness, love, generosity (etc).
A disgruntled reader posted this short rant as a comment to my “theist bus” post a few months ago: “Yep, do to others like you would you would have done to yourself, ready to forgive, generosity giving more happiness than … Continue reading
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“A bomb won't go off here because weeks before a shopper reported someone studying the CCTV cameras.”
I saw this surreal advert for the “Anti-Terrorist Hotline” operated by the Met police and the British Transport police. It’s truly preposterous because it’s intended to give the impression that some kind of actual near-miss has occurred, and that lives … Continue reading
The Theist Bus
This is round 2 of the exciting tit-for-tat between the secularists and the god-botherers: I’m not sure what the strategy behind this advert is. It’s obviously a response to the “Atheist Bus” campaign which had an almost negligible visibility and … Continue reading
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Some notes for police officers wishing to investigate IndyMedia content
When I was an Indymedia mirror operator I used to get weekly calls from concerned police officers worried about “dangerous content” on “my site”. It’s the nature of the project that it attracts all kinds of people who often post … Continue reading
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