I feel unclean linking to the Dail Heil, especially for a non-story like this “rebellious artist is middle class public schoolboy shocker”, but I remain a fan of Banksy’s work, and will be interested to see what impact this has on his future efforts.

Counterbalance – here’s the sort of crappy sensationalist headline that the Express likes to run with, about the decaying state of out society “Buglars to be let off” type stuff, being shredded by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.

Good metaphor. I get my geek news through blogs instead of community-type sites for this sort of reason – the window where the site is gentrified enough that the a-geeks don’t annoy me but the masses and the attendant noise/churn haven’t arrived is small.

This is an idea I want to revisit. I know a number of very creative people, and see no reason why a bunch of us should not get together and make something clever.

Very very angry now.

Well, now Viacom is going to know about it. This, right here is why Google is dangerous. They may try not to do evil, but they can be compelled to hand over vast amounts of their oh-so-nice-honest data to people who are much more evil.

Doing a bit of research. There may be a few links in this vein coming.

I won’t bother to commenting on these, they’re just for me, not stuff I think it’s worth other people looking at, unless you’re facsinated by the nasty bits of Soviet Russia.

Diamond Geezer explains some of the significance of the numbers 1-30 in the context of London

It’s possible I have become confused about the metaphor here. Still, this is worth a look if you’d like to get an idea of the scale of Google’s operation. It’s slightly terrifying. And full of rice.

Someone get me one of these, at once. Not to screw with other people’s photography, you understand. But screwing with my own photos sounds like fun to me.

Useful set of plugins to add features to to Vanilla forums.

First they came for the omnibologists…

This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now…

Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.

Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.

Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!

C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.

THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.

C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!

10/10, that man. Lovely way to start the week.

I could really do with something like this that goes all the way out to the M25 (and would even be prepared to pay a modest sum for such a thing), but this will do for a start.

Oh, look, I found one. Handy. This is why people really ought to spend a bit fo time doing SEO work on websites – this was buried on the third page of my search results, despite being about the most authoritative result for my search.

I finished “Gonzo”, a collection of recollections of Hunter S Thompson by those who knew him, on the bus this morning, so it was quite nice find this in one of my RSS feeds this morning – a short essay by his son about the things he learned from the man.

My colleague on the usefulness of strace. Of absolutely no interest if you’re not a developer working on linux-based systems, don’t even bother looking. If you on the other hand, you meet that description, you should read this