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CCTV Camera: a device that detects police misconduct and informs its operator by turning the screen black.
Read More definitionApril 2009
the local rag
Ironic to think of it now, but before the police were filmed beating the shit out of Ian Tomlinson and assorted members of the public, there was some sort of media push on against “citizen journalists”, the Internet, Google, etc, and in favour of Good Old Local Newspapers. Well, there must be some explanation for…
Read More the local ragit is now absolutely certain that the national ID card will be compromised
Self-satirising ID card madness. So they’ve actually got as far as issuing some significant contracts. We’ll begin by noting that one of them has gone to CSC, last seen introducing the joy of Cerner software to the NHS National Programme for IT. But much more to the point, what is this talk about using the…
Read More it is now absolutely certain that the national ID card will be compromisedThe Conservative Party in six links
I note that no-one has yet anonymously accused Ian Tomlinson of an indictable offence in a national newspaper. Are our standards in truly shameful, underhand, repellent duplicity slipping? However, a lot of Tories who were OUTRAGED about Sir Ian Blair‘s term as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police seem to be…how can I put this? frit…
Read More The Conservative Party in six linksHOWNOTTO be caught as a student terrorist
The thing that pisses me off about Al-Qa’ida is that they insist on egging the government on. That said, I can’t think of anything more ridiculous than Phil Woolas wanting to have reports of any foreign student who misses ten lectures. I can’t think of many things more ridiculous and contemptible than Phil Woolas anyway,…
Read More HOWNOTTO be caught as a student terrorista remarkable number of Soviet celebrities
A little news from the rialto. We’re seeing more and more movements using the name “Sky Cabs”, with either Phoenix Aviation/AVE’s call sign PHW or else 2E. Interestingly, the company of this identity was shut down in Colombo after a horrible accident back in 2000. The matching ICAO code was SCB; we’ve not seen that…
Read More a remarkable number of Soviet celebritiesonwards and upwards
Telling. 29 (Commando) Light Regiment RA haul a 105mm gun by hand up a rock pinnacle in Afghanistan, to a feature called Roshan Tower. Yes, Roshan as in the mobile phone operator. We can offer you 900MHz GSM service, and some things that go with it, but far from all of them, or we can…
Read More onwards and upwardsidiots round the world stand hand in hand…
Now I want you all to go and read this outstanding article on the Daily Telegraph‘s real role in world journalism. Essentially, it’s become a crucial link in the global bullshit cycle. Like the water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles, bullshit circulates around the planet; some actors are bullshit sources and others sinks. The Telegraph‘s role…
Read More idiots round the world stand hand in hand…free our data, I suppose
Following on from the last post, we’re unlikely to have funding to dose every school kid in Britain with radioactive markers and fMRI-scan them a term later to see how their neurons are getting on any time soon, even if you could get that past the ethics committee and the Nuclear Dread. So unless someone…
Read More free our data, I supposeinsane in the membrane, insane in the brain!
Is neurogenesis perhaps the most interesting scientific discovery of the times? I rather think it is. The government minister’s version: until quite recently, we thought that once you passed a certain early age, that was it for your supply of neurons, and you would only lose them. Paradoxically, that wasn’t incompatible with learning, as ones…
Read More insane in the membrane, insane in the brain!