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2001-11-29»

The morning rounds:

Will 'Ginger' be revealed? - Wired
Japanese Flash movies [bogies used as humourous indication of grief] - Memepool
Search for Earth-like planets talk webcast tonight at 7pm - Bottom Quark
File-sharing kids in Japan arrested on criminal charges - BoingBoing
The news from Al-Jazeera
Informative piece on biowarfare - New York Review of Books, via rc3.org
SMS buffer overruns on mobile phones! (kinda) - the reg
Institute of Applied Autonomy - slashdot, i think

Fancy schmancy Scandi wireless mag, with great wireless poster.

Despite being Mr Privacy Man a lot of the time, I've often wondered exactly how the "creeping loss of rights" game plays out. Do soft concessions like widespread CCTVs really lead to more pernicious abuses? I'd say this case might be a good litmus test of public reaction:Litter louts to be filmed, have their pictures published.

London's growing army of litter louts are to be named and shamed in a special "rogues gallery" as part of a groundbreaking new clean-up campaign.
Merton Council, in south London, plans to use its 60 CCTV surveillance cameras to zoom in on anybody dropping litter.

2001-11-19»

I'm sure it'll zoom up the charts but I do like Secret Santa

2001-11-07»

Of course, it's very easy for me to do this. But it's just as easy if you live in the UK too:

2001-11-06»

A perfectly decent Flash program after Quinn's finished with it:

2001-11-02»

And back, and breathe... had a great time in the end: fattening dinners, late night walks down crowded streets, strange fevers and Anthrax casualties, sacred federal documents, sandwiches of turkey between slices of HTML source, Halloween balls on dredged-up tugboats, abandoned conferences, hot chocolate with gurus, bioinformatics, no gawking at ground zero, two day debian installs, jokes about 802.11, and laughing a lot with my very funny hostess. Don't think the marzipan potatoes did it justice, in the end.

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