I know there are a couple of DJ types reading this. And a few people who would *like* to be DJ types, but are having cost issues with some of the kit required. Check this out.

LJ are doing the link re-writing thing again. As this post makes clear, the reason it is bad (even if you don't care about money, like I don't) is essentially because a third party company will get info about what links to external websites you are clicking, if you are clicking on them when they've been posted by people who haven't opted out of this scheme. I have, and absent LJ being total arseholes about it and ingnoring the opt-out (at which point, I will be shutting up shop on LJ) links clicked from my journal should always be safe. Do me a favour, and leave a comment if you've similarly opted out, so I can try and track whose links I am happy to click?

A daft little video that tickled my funnybone in a disproportionate manner.

"Whoops" say Apple. "We've accidentally generated a load of hype for the product we were pretty much ready to announce in a matter of a couple of months. Oh dear."

I skate in just ahead of the group that Penny Red is talking about here – a decade older, with fractionally more financial security, I can afford to rent a place on my own, although not do anything as extravagant as *buy* somewhere, but the sense of political disenfranchisement she's talking about is bitterly familiar.

Let's see the Kindle do this. Kids are going to love reading this….

I would love to see a similar poll conducted over here, because I bet it would get similar results. No one I know is in favour of cutting funding to the NHS, Education, Social Services, Pensions, infrastructure, or really, anything. And yet, we look like we're going to elect people who are going to do that.

I try and be tolerant about people who fall in different places on the political spectrum to me, I really do. But as this article makes clear, David Cameron is poised to declare economic war on me, my friends, and those less well off than us.

This should be stuck to the monitor of every internet connected computer in the world.

Reasonable community model for an idea I've had.

I'm not entirely sure who this Michael Buble character is – I think he's some kind of pop star of the sort I probably won't enjoy very much – but he has sailed so completely under my radar that I suspect I am even more out of touch then previously thought. However, here he is being staked a velociraptor. Velociraptors make everything better.

Met one of the founders of this outfit at the weekend. Potentially very interesting stuff in here. One to play with later.

Jesus shitcocking Christ! If this is in the next release, then we're about 2 generations of photoshop away from a single "just sort this image out, would you" button, and then professional photographers and stock photo libraries are going to be obsolete. And as one commenter points out, this bit of technology is going to effectively make watermarking images impossible – it'll be trivial to heal the watermark off the pic.

In brief: the geographic long tail. 15% of most peoples time is spent in places that they are in less than 1% of their time. People sometimes ask me why I want to start logging my GPS data, even if only privately – it's for this sort of stuff – to work out whether or not I can better optimise my personal possibility jelly. (And if I lost you there, then I suggest you google the term.) I'd like to better track what I'm doing with this 15%, and see if I can't grab some hours back.