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Bookmarks for July 7, 2008

Warren Ellis » The Patchwork Years
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.

Tags: blogging, content
British Journal of Photography – Home Secretary green lights restrictions on photography
Very very angry now.

Tags: photography, evil_empire, uk, evil_empire

Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
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…

Tags: photography, uk, terrorism, omnibologist
YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.

Tags: video, animation, russia, pooh
TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
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.

Tags: security, osx, sysadmin
firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!

Tags: firefox, osx, plugin, pdf
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
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!

Tags: humor, mcsweeneys, literature

7 Deadly Glasses
These are beautiful, amd several of them are even practical. Someone get me a set at once.

Tags: design, concept, glass, wine
BBC NEWS | Politics | David Davis resigns from Commons
Well fuck me running. A Tory MP has done something that means I’d vote for him like a shot, if given a chance. Well done, David Davis. I may disagree with most of his party’s platform, but on this I agree entirely, and I applaud the bold move.

Tags: politics, news, uk, civil_rights, civil_rights

BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered
Good fucking grief. Insert Orwell references here. Is there any English speaking nation I can get into that isn’t getting increasingly fucking Big Brother, please?

Tags: politics, uk, surveillance
Radar Online : Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
A senior government official says: “There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated.” This may be as many as 8 million people.

Tags: surveillance, bigbrother, amerikkka

Whining, Blue Smoke & the Mechanics of Getting Unstuck | 43 Folders
Everyone and their dog has already linked to it, but that’s because it’s well worth a read.

Tags: advice, brain, lifehacks
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks” (via BoingBoing)
Using Virgin as your ISP? I’d strongly urge you to end your account, and find an ISP that believes in your right to use the internet as you, rather than they, see fit. If they get away with this, then other ISPs will too, and then we’re all fucked.

Tags: uk, netneutrality

(Mis)Adventures in sous-vide cookery (part one)
Friend and professional mad bastard Hugh Hancock has finally managed to get himself a home waterbath suitable for cooking in. I urge you all to learn about his progress in Cooking With Science, because it’s both informative and fucking funny.

Tags: food, cooking, science
How to install Leopard on the eeePC
Just, y’know, in case it should ever be handy.

Tags: osx, howto, hacks, eeepc, leopard
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
A salutory warning to non-US citizens doing business on the internet – make sure you register your domain names with places that aren’t American companies, otherwise the American government may claim that their laws apply to you.

Tags: evil_empire, mad, evil_empire
The Met declare war on photography, houses and mobile phones.
This is just fucking stupid. I’m fine with keeping an eye out. But picking specific things to advertise as potential terrorist activity is just asking for trouble. Whoever came up with this one must be a special kind of moron.

Tags: photography, police, uk, paranoia, propaganda