Panorama - How to poison a spy

Panorama pieces together the events surrounding Litvinenko.
[Link]

BBC Mortgaged to the Yanks

A very informative piece on the economic background between the Second World War a& the Marshall Plan

Britain has finally paid off the debt to the US for this period.
[Link]

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

A Gizmodo Tech Writer gives a scathing invective on the state of the 'Early Adopters' & the tech Industry that feeds them.

"And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose."

[Link]

Best Comment from the Boards


" I feel so dirty now. :( "
.... i4ni

Kersal Massive

Thank you Mr. Bliar, for after 10 years of rule you have produced this...
[Link]

Than you the Internet, for after 10 years of Open source Protocols, freedom to parody & user generated content you have produced this...
Remixes
KERSAL MASSIVE VS. KRAFTWERK
Kersal Massive Rap Remix
Kersal Massive vs Dr Dre
Kersal Without A Pause
M3G4 massife Kersal
Kwurzel Massive
Gerbil Massive

Wikipedia entry on Kersal ... is this the smallest Wikipedia entry ever? Notice there are no discussion entries!
Wikipedia
Broughton/Kersal FireService

Google search history and privacy

Following on from my Machine is Using Us post here is an informative essay on Google's tracking of your searches. I dont know if this happens with all users, but as I also have a Gmail account, Im getting well tracked.
I'm not to sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, yes, its usefull to go back to something I was searching for last year, on the other, with so much stuff that Google offers now, hacking a Google account would bring a wealth of information on the target.

[Link]

BBC techies talk DRM

Concise and insightful rant about the current attitudes at the BBC.
[Link]

PirateBay's OscarTorrents - download the Oscars

"You haven't beaten us, so why not join us? Think of a new business model that doesn't involve overpriced pieces of plastic and skanky cinemas hawking cheap carbohydrates while relying on $6/hr projectionists who can't keep a film in focus -- not to mention insulting your audiences by (to pick a few examples) surveilling us with nightvision glasses, searching bags, 30 minutes of commercials and bombarding us with ridiculous anti-piracy propaganda. Take a look at yourselves. Is it really any wonder we're winning?"

My sentiments exactly.

[Link]

BOFH

As usual, the BOFH provides the best insight to recent technological advances.

"You should go to Vista."

"So you like Vista?"

"Not really, no. I run a Vista simulator."

"Virtual Server?" the Boss asks.

"Nah, I just turned on all the flashy crap in XP, changed the background image, took some memory out of my box and clocked down the CPU. Then broke Media player. Works like a charm."

[Link]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

A very thought provoking piece about the future of Web 2.0. Every time you click, the machine learns something about you. The Question is - whos watching the machine?

[Link]

dubstep

Well - 'dubstep' has gotta hold on me.
Id heard about this new form of music, based in the UK - but only recently heard it.

Its very me.

Lots of very fat beats, break business & general darkness.

I warn you, you need large speakers, turned up full.

Get a load of this.

SUBFM.com radio
SensiMedia.net

and a short
BBC documentary

Kintaro Walks Japan

A very sweet, if not a little naive amateur documentary of a 6 foot US teen walking the length of the Japanese Islands.

[Link]

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers

Personally I think this is a very well executed piece of work.
All though released in 2003, it is still fresh in its treatment of some very major issues, represented in a way to keep the 15 second attention slot filled.
It is multi-lingual, and sadly the versions listed here give you a choice between French, Spanish or German subtitles for the non English parts.
However - please remember that as with a lot of these works, this IS copyrighted content & really shouldn't be on GoogleVideo at all.
The full package can be purchased here, with a license for public viewing.

[Link]

Alexander Litvinenko Documentary

A very interesting & moving documentary about Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned Russian asylum seeker.
This is all a very sad state of affairs, and seems (as usual) to have powerful corrupt politicians, secret services and shadowy organisations operating outside of International Law at its root.

[Link]

Atheist Anger

To keep with my policy of posting it as & when you find it I include this little gem.

TAKE NOTE
Only to be watched if
a) you 'get' Dawkins
b) youve been drinking
[Link]

& seeing that we're having an aethist tip this month,
Douglas Adams - yes the man behind the 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' rants forth (brilliantly) about Atheism. Radio Show
[Link]


njoi ppl

3 brilliant Dawkins links for you.

Dawkins on BBC
Dawkins & Jonathan Miller
Dawkins on the Colbert Report.