- New Statesman – Inside the Millbank Tower riots
I imagine you'll see this link a lot over the next day or two – Penny Red on yesterday's riots at Millbank Tower. Superb writing, in support of an important cause.
Tag: activism
Bookmarks for June 4, 2010
- Street Giant » Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR
In the course of excoriating BP, a noble end in and of itself, he says this: "You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand. Offer a great, innovative product and make responsible, ethical business decisions." To which I can simply say: Yes. This. Now please all got and read the whole piece, because it's great.
- Coins database: Government opens up books on public spending for first time | Politics | guardian.co.uk
You know, I don't think I have a spare 120GB of storage space. I may need to do something about that. In any event, this might well make things interesting over the next while, as people start digging into how much is spent where…
Bookmarks for January 19, 2010
- Dino Snores | Natural History Museum
I urgently need to borrow five or more children, ages 8-11.
- Homeopathy: There's nothing in it | The 10:23 Campaign
Just in case anyone reading this has been dropped on their head recently, here's a campaign aiming to raise awareness of the quackery of homeopathy masquerading of "complementary" medicine. Of particular relevance is the "what's the harm?" link, because that'' explain *why* we need to make sure people understand that this crap is a scam to part the gullible from their money, just like Reiki and other similar kinds of bullshit. I all for holistic treatments, and accepting the western medical science does not yet have all the answers, but I also believe it's vital to know where the lines between "we don't know why it works", "we're not sure if it works" and "we *know* it doesn't work" are drawn.
Bookmarks for January 12, 2010
- Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net
Yeah. And *this* is exactly why I stopped giving them any more data. Creepy as fuck.
- Derailing for Dummies
Ever done any of these things in an internet argument? Yeah, well, me too. Let's just put it behind us, and try and be better people from now on, eh?
- Sex objects: Pictures shift men's view of women | Science | guardian.co.uk
Apparently looking at lots of porn really *isn't* healthy for human relationships. Who knew?
Bookmarks for March 10, 2009
- Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation by Eric Paulos
"We have failed in our duty to open up alternate forums for technology to express itself and touch our lives beyond productivity and efficiency. Blinded by our quest for 'smart technologies' we have forgotten to contemplate the design of technologies to inspire us to be smarter, more curious, and more inquisitive."
Bookmarks for March 4, 2009
- The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Your one stop primer on controlling your relationship with Big Brother.
- 55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes | OpenSourceHunter
There are a few truly beautiful grunge-look themes in here, and I've been thinking about switching to a grunge look for at least one, maybe two of my blogs, just to get away from the very formal look, and mark them out as obviously personal. I'll try a few out, and see what I think.
- Relevant History: Thoughts on design + futures
"we need to learn to talk about the future through things"
- Corpus Chronophage
This is a dozen kinds of cool. Made slightly less so by a particularly rubbish website, but take the time to watch the video, because it's sodding ace.
- twistori
Pretty, interesting, and faintly voyeuristic.
- Back to My Mac through iChat » All Forces
I can see this being a useful thing to be able to do.
- Open the Future: The End of Long-Term Thinking
Jamais Cascio on the difference a change in language may make when dicussing the many vast problems that are heading our way over the next generation or two.
- city benches by adriano design
Someone has finally taken a look at the design of the park bench, realised that it's signiificantly sub-optimal for modern uses, and come up with an alternative design. Ace!
Bookmarks for February 27, 2009
- The Convention on Modern Liberty
Shit, the London event is sold out. Still, I suppose that might be taken as a good sign. Maybe.
- The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
Starts of with some talk of Dunbar's number as it applies to social networks, then gets into the much tighter sphere of the number of people we actually interact with.
- Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall
Really interesting look at how a group of volunteers in China translate each issue of The Economist.