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Just in case anyone thinks that Internet trolls and timewasters are a new phenomenon…
After reading David Allen Green and linkchasing to a posting about “David Mabus“ – who seems to have been a right piece of work – I thought back over the past 25 years (sigh) and a few names sprang to mind: Serdar Argic Abian Robert E. McElwaine Julian Assange (yes, him, at one point) Ludwig
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Express.co.uk :: We’re the new naughty novelists # La Express reports on the British #CottageErotica industry
Extract from full article: HOT on the stilettos of British author EL James, whose erotic romance Fifty Shades Of Grey topped the New York Times bestseller list, countless other seemingly ordinary women are seeing sales of their own racy reads soar. Thanks to the popularity of eReaders such as Amazon’s Kindle, which mean there’s no
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Law banning insulting language ‘is strangling free speech’ – Telegraph
Law banning insulting language ‘is strangling free speech’ A law banning ”insulting” language and behaviour is strangling free speech and should be scrapped, a campaign spearheaded by a senior Tory MP has demanded. […] via Law banning insulting language ‘is strangling free speech’ – Telegraph.
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#India blocks #Pastebin? Great way to kill off the tech boom in #Bangalore, guys #whoohoo #IndiaTechSuicide
Via @glynmoody: An injunction issued by an Indian court in a copyright infringement case has forced Indian Internet service providers to block access to the video-sharing sites Vimeo and DailyMotion, Bittorrent-tracker The Pirate Bay, text-sharing site Pastebin and a number of other websites. In response, members of Anonymous mounted a denial of service attack on the websites
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Small team from Plunkett Foundation (@PlunkettFoundat) filming at Hartley Wintney WI Market this morning
Apparently it’s for some documentary on the Country Markets movement and the growth in local production and sales of food. I hope that atop all the eco-boosting they’ll get around to mentioning that some of the stuff you get at the WI you also cannot get in any other way (short of making it) –
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If you want to fix your Mac’s Desktop Wallpaper, you need today’s APOD
. Via Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-18
Monday 7pm "#CCDP & Interception Evidence: what would the #SnoopersCharter permit? @OpenRightsGroup In The Pub http://t.co/yDaurNgl # : BUNNIES! http://t.co/jZyv4v1F # lolcommits: Takes a snapshot with your webcam each time you commit # must port to Subversion for @surevine deployment http://t.co/IhE2p7V1 # Apparently my blog is parental-controlled/filtered/censored content on the O2 Mobile network # HT
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“Why is this message in Spam? We’ve found that lots of messages from schneier@schneier.com are spam”
Somehow I find this both ironic and hilarious. Doubtless there are rational explanations involving fake “From:” addresses.
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Apparently my blog is parental-controlled / filtered / censored content on the O2 Mobile network # HT @ramtopsrac @drbexl
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, in one sense – for instance I occasionally have the temerity to mention words like “sex” and “porn” in a unprudish and often positive manner; also I have a history of being blocked as a hacking website which is deeply silly since it implies the censors can’t differentiate between
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lolcommits: Takes a snapshot with your webcam every time you commit code # requires port to Subversion for @surevine deployment
git + webcam = lol Takes a snapshot with your Mac’s built-in iSight/FaceTime webcam (or any working webcam on Linux) every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. By default, the lolimages are stored by a Github style short SHA in a ~/.lolcommits directory created for you. via mroth/lolcommits
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-17
@timburks Weak bloody platform when some other bugger can break yours for you. cc: @kevinmarks @xor # Sometimes I wish the entire Big-I Identity community would discover something more fun to do. # @timburks Precisely the basis on which Visa and MC work, except they call it Actuarials @kevinmarks @xor # : "This Is The