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Accidental recipe: Fake Spicy Stir-fry Vegetables
2x handfuls mushrooms, coarsely sliced 3x medium carrots, roll-cut 1x medium onion, crescents about 8 cloves pickled garlic, sliced (less if fresh) fry in wok with a little oil; while frying, add 1/2 stem lemongrass, bashed flat and minced fine 2 tbsp spicy hot mango chutney (used: wilkin/tiptree) pepper pinch salt cook through until a…
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Just found this referrer from #BlueCoat in my logfiles; does this mean they have blocked me? #security #censorship
Quote: http://notify.bluecoat.com/notify-Grey-List?http/dropsafe_crypticide_com/ aHR0cDovL2Ryb3BzYWZlLmNyeXB0aWNpZGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDYzMw=%3D It does not appear to load anything – it gives me an IIS 404; but note the infix string: Grey* List? That’s a mail-spam term as far as I am concerned… Hmmm… The Base64 encoded string decodes to the following URL on my site: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4633 …which is about Kindle batteries, so I…
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Two Parliamentary Reports: Future of Investigative Journalism / Roots of violent radicalisation; #censorship #regulation
Home Affairs Committee – Nineteenth Report Roots of violent radicalisation The Internet 1, The Internet 2 57. Given the impossibility of comprehensively controlling the internet, it is necessary to employ other methods to tackle the issue. Alyas Karmani argued: If you are thinking about banning the internet, you have just got to provide a counter-narrative.…
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Theological reading: #JewishEncyclopedia: the unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia: JESUS OF NAZARETH
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us to see oursels as ithers see us: http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8616-jesus-of-nazareth […] In the New Testament there are four “Gospels” professing to deal with the life of Jesus independently; but it is now almost universally agreed that the first three of these, known by the names of “Matthew,” “Mark,”…
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Once again the error of thinking of the Internet as a ‘space’ inveigles into Government thinking
The report described the internet as “one of the few unregulated spaces where radicalisation is able to take place” and suggested it played a greater role in promoting violence than prisons, universities or places of worship. via BBC News – Home Affairs Committee warns of far-right terror threat. It’s not a space, people. The Internet…
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New Statesman – Video: Bristol bus driver uses “vehicle as weapon”
The video is pretty shocking; not gory, but the intention of it all… The court heard that Hill had driven too close to Philip Mead, 43, off his bike near St James Barton roundabout in Bristol. As the bus stopped, Mead parked his bike against the front of the bus and had a heated argument…
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My Search Neutrality reading list, from the recent #PICTFOR panel session with #Foundem on #SearchNeutrality
I spoke on a panel at PICTFOR on Search Neutrality a few days ago, and this comprises most of the reading list that I gathered in preparation for the meeting. I was told forcefully and at great length by some individuals that somehow I had only discovered one side of the story, so I feel…
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I was with @DrMichaelBrooks of the @NewStatesman right up until he said the word ‘ban’
…which was not very long then: Time to ban breast implants Michael Brooks […] Cosmetic surgery is nothing more than an industrial-scale scientific experiment. The augmentation of women’s breasts began as an application of chemical wizardry, ushered in on the gleaming wings of postwar science. The surgeon’s hypothesis has been that a problem of self-esteem…
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#Geek? #Friday? #Bored? Check out @schuetzdj & his worked solutions of #Security Conference Badge Contests
For example the ShmooCon 2008 Badge Puzzle or the DEF CON 18 Crypto Challenge. Full sets at http://darthnull.org/ – check the tab bar at the top for an index page, or just browse through the old posts.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-17
: Two followups to my @giles_fraser / Richard Dawkins @rdfrs post – one newspaper, one funny http://t.co/7jYSvqE3 # : …but why I am kinda happy with establishmentarianism is: (HT @RelSoc) http://t.co/tRHe7c0L # #dc4420 is next Tuesday, and @gwire is still prepped for a talk; FAO @alien8 are there any more talks announced? # @alien8 @gwire…
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At #DC4420 a few weeks ago I asked “Who here was on Zardoz?” http://goo.gl/fkQcH – disappointing result
I’m beginning to wonder if everyone else from that era is dead, or something… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz_(computer_security) The Zardoz list, more formally known as the Security-Digest list, was a famous semi-private full disclosure mailing list run by Neil Gorsuch from 1989 through 1991, identifying weaknesses in systems and where to find them. Zardoz is most notable for…