- Met Police encourages Twitter pile-ons (with images, tweets) · anyabike · Storify
Mildy horrifying behaviour from the police. I mean, sure, it's "just" twitter, but then, so were the complaints. Why set a pile-on on people who are "just" complaining on Twitter, if it's not important?
Tag: police
Thursday 1st January 1970
- Osborne's first Budget? It's wrong, wrong, wrong! – UK Politics, UK – The Independent
|I imagine a few of you have seen this, but still: a nobel prizewinning economist delivers his verdict on George Osborne's benefit. Now, I imagine that a few of you are thinking "well, he's obviously got a bias". Yeah, probably true. But he's also got a fistful of examples, and I don't know about you, but I was always taught that a persuasive point was one that was backed up with examples.
- Young photojournalist detained for army cadet pics – British Journal of Photography
Good to see that the police in Romford have paid attention to their own guidelines on how to deal with photojournalists. Oh, no, wait, that's not what they've done, is it? They've done the other thing, haven't they? FFS.
Bookmarks for December 15, 2009
- YouTube – i'm not a terrorist
This is unreal. I know that beat officers are getting more and more direction from above that harrassing photographers and videographers is not a crime, but seriously, I think there perhaps needs to be a bit more that that. Perhaps a total relaxation of the powers relating to photography, because that this can happen in London is just nauseating.
- YouTube – Christmas Light Hero
I have a soft spot for really, really tacky christmas ligt displays. I'm glad they're not as common here as they are in the US, but oen now and again is fun. This one, however, is *really* impressive.
Bookmarks for November 24, 2009
- panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart.
My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to? - The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
- Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
- How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
- Home – flashbake – GitHub
Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
- The Literary Gift Company
ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.
Bookmarks for September 24, 2009
- Innocent in London – 'Suspicious behaviour on the tube'
Interesting, if long, account of one man's unlawful arrest shortly fter the 7/7 bombings, and his long, slow progress to getting the records expunged, and a general apology for the shoddy behaviour of the police. Worth a read.
- Stacey, Simplified portfolios
Really, really simply image portfolio system. Might have a go at this myself, as and when I get around to organising my photos in some useful manner.
- Blood-powered lamp
This is awesome on a number of levels. I want several.
- Nee Naw – Marshmallows
On the one hand, this is a tragedy. Someone's, y'know, dead. On the other, well…
Bookmarks for July 10, 2009
- Top 10 comic book cities | The Critics | Architects Journal
Some really interesting picks here. I think I'm going to have to make efforts to acquire a few of the works mentioned in here that I've never read.
- Metropolitan Police Service – About the Met – Photography advice
Advice about dealing with Photographers given to officers by the Met. Sensible, clear, know your rights stuff. If an officer talking to you does *not* know your rights, then you might try giving them this, because after all, it's their boss telling them what they're allowed to do.
Bookmarks for April 17, 2009
- dompdf – The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
I think I'm going to need a HTML->PDF converter for a project in the next month or two, and I won't be able to use my usual one. So I'll probably wind up using this.
- Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' | UK news | guardian.co.uk
I'm going to want this to refer to at some point in the next while. Also: for fucks sake! Inster standard ranting here.
Bookmarks for March 26, 2009
- glycon: Big Numbers #3
Alan Moore's Big Numbers #3, made available on-line with his blessing. To say this is a big unexpected would be understating things a bit, but well done that man.
- Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters – Boing Boing
Ironically, the police state that we're increasingly living in "for out own saftey" is what's moving toward to the belief that armed insurrection is the only answer.
- AC/DC rocks the office wins Media Grauniad award
My former colleague Phil has recently won a well deserved award for a very clever means of producing a viral music video.
Bookmarks for March 24, 2009
- Metropolitan Police Service – New campaign to urge Londoners to report suspicious activity
Be Afraid! Your Neighbour Is Not Like You, And You Should Fear Them! If Someone Deviates From The Norm, They Must Be Investigated. Do Not Watch The Cameras, The Cameras Are For Watching You. Be Afraid! (fucksake)
- Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion – physics-math – 23 March 2009 – New Scientist
This may or may not be the real deal, but the fact that at this stage they're just saying "look we found this" rather than claiming 100% certainty now makes them a bit more plausible than the previous bunch. Here's hoping, eh?
- Beautiful Data | O'Reilly Media
This is simultaneously a massively nerdy book, a notion of staggering genius, and an instant must-read.
- Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things
"Yes, halfway through this project we'll discover the impossible, but we know how to build through the impossible. Impossible is when we do our best work."
- Warner Bros launches made-to-order DVD service | Technology | Internet | Reuters
About bloody time. There is no reason why any cultural artefact produced since we started using computers should be ever be out of print.
Bookmarks for March 18, 2009
- Kingsnorth report reveals shocking police campaign of intimidation against protesters – Britcit
This one's worth circulating far and wide – police using the various powers they've been given over the last while to suppress a peaceful protest.
- 20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know | KomunitasWeb
There's plenty of non-geek stuff in today's pile of links. Just skip past this one.
- Undesigning the Emergency @Etech Benjamin H. Bratton
Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social, the paired need for both open software and hardware is clear. The design of the open public space is dependent on the design of the open software which is, increasingly, dependent on the design of open cities."
- Søren Vind >> pc_user
Might be handy in future projects – one of the first things I almost invariable do it set up a user class to handle logins and similar rubbish, and it'd be nice to have a handy boxed-up model to do all that with.
- iPhone 3.0: everyware-ready? « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones identifies the really interesting thing about yesterday's Iphone 3.0 announcement, and it's not copy-and-paste.
- Espionage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This looks like a fairly decent starting point, anyway. Of course, that's probably just what the government wants me to think.
- Intelligence cycle management – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today is "everything you didn't need to know about intelligence, and weren't afraid to ask" day.
- Category:Secret broadcasting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fascinating espionage-related stuff I had never heard of before now.
- Computer programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive – Telegraph
I probably don't need the little finger on my left hand, you know…