The Blood is The Life 12-01-2012

• How Facebook's targeted advertising destroyed the life of a young man | Privacy International
  This is why I deleted all my friends from facebook, and when I have to use it for page maintenance, I use it in a browser that I don't use for anything other than facebook; this way the only thing they can track is that I use facebook....
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• Government filthy tricks subvert parliamentary process | A Latent Existence
  I cannot believe that the stooping has gone this low :(
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• NASA Tests Helper Robots Inspired By Star Wars And Powered By Android | Co.Design
  Robots are cool
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• Dawn Over Tower Bridge
  Absolutely stunning shot of tower bridge
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• Marky Guitar: Lumia lights up my comms
  I want one of these so much
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• Why Samsung Is The Next Apple | TechCrunch
  .... except presumably not so horrendously overpriced....
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• BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true
  One of the ones they have tagged as wrong would have been right if he'd said "a lot of" instead of "all", too....
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• This Photograph Is Not Free
  Interesting article on the true cost of an individual photograph.
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• We’ve started manufacture! | Raspberry Pi
  OMG I am so excited about this. As is Holly. The article also details why the finished pi won't be made in the UK. The reasons are entirely understandable, and frankly, Vince, you need to sort this shit out (there's an e-petition here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27158 which I have signed, and encourage you to do too)
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Looks like Judge Jack Straw might be getting his comeuppance soon

I don't want to jinx it, but the news that MI6 are saying they didn't do any renditions without ministerial approval could be absolutely huge. This is the relevant passage:

British officials have not sought to deny the involvement of MI6 in either rendition. Instead, they have stressed that each resulted from what they describe as "ministerially authorised government policy", raising the possibility that the new Yard inquiry will require the questioning of ministers of the last Labour government.

I guess it's time to dig out this old picture again...



Of course, the likelihood is that it'll all get swept under the carpet, but we can hope, right?

The Android Invasion

... really is a load of old bobbins, isn't it? I love the depth of feeling with which Tom suggests going to the pub in the first episode, and the interaction between Tom and Lis is a joy, as always, but really, whose idea was it that they'd make the doorways so low that everyone has to duck? And Roy Skelton has never sounded more Zippy-like... I think I enjoyed Invasion of the Dinosaurs more. I wish we'd shown it to innerbrat while she was here, though. Her incredulity at it's crapness would have been worth having to tie her down and force her to watch it... ;)

In other news, thanks to personalised tech support from it's creator, the lovely andrewducker, I have finally got autoposting set up for link posts. But tomorrow morning there may be a double post, and it might contain some of the links that were in today's post. This is partly due to a time period overlap, and partly due to me clicking the wrong thing. After tomorrow morning it should be fine, though.