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Notes on media, politics and technology, by Adam Wilcox.
For example, say a person’s name was ”Neil Inglis”, which is 11 characters in length. That’s unquestionably different from another 11-characters-long name, such as, say, “Arse Badger”.
Matt Gemmell explains how hashing works, and it’s role in making social networking apps more private.
“In 1945 The Nazis Went To The Moon. In 2018 They Are Coming Back.”
At last, a full trailer and a release date; Iron Sky premieres February 11th at the Berlin International Film Festival. In theaters on 4th of April 2012.
Jokes always have the propensity to offend no matter what their content, but perhaps we should take a stronger line on what we consider unacceptable and what is really ‘just joking’. Of course it’s difficult to justify censoring anything, because by its very nature censorship is the removal of true freedom of expression. But if the sensibility and empathetic natures needed of society are somewhat lacking, how else can we challenge those that either seek to harm, or inadvertently do so? I’ll keep standing up to people and keep saying it until I’m blue in the face. It’s NOT OKAY.
My friend Jennifer wrote this and it’s up at Liberal Conspiracy. Go read it, Jen is one of the good guys… even though she’s a Glaswegian.
On reflection, I should have used “spawners”.
The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection.
At this point, I, and I believe everyone else in the room, was agog. I could scarcely believe what was occurring on stage. But Prof. Brindley was not satisfied…
Ministers are “considering very seriously” building a controversial new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham, the BBC understands.
Quite apart the obvious issue with the planned route crossing areas of outstanding natural beauty and it will damage the environment, there is a more serious question to raise… why the fuck would anyone wanna go to Birmingham?
#southerner #trolling
Two stories I read recently regarding modern Russia.
Workers were trained on how to stuff ballots, each a thin sheet roughly the size of standard letter paper. [The Commission Chairman] demonstrated how a stack of up to 30 or even 50 ballots could be folded in half, hidden inside a jacket and slipped into the ballot box without making any noise.
An Insider’s Account Of Vote Rigging For Putin. Vote-rigging during the Russia election earlier this month, and how it was done.
As the trio enjoyed their lunch, an assassin calmly walked up and shot Burlakov in the head; the bullet fragments seriously injuring his wife… Most journalists whose lunch interview had been so brutally curtailed would have been given time off and counselling for post-traumatic stress. But in Russia, the treatment is simply a couple of shots of vodka and straight back to work.
Who runs Russia? Stunning piece in the FT about the Russian mafia and its inseparable links to the Kremlin.
As a side note, I’ve just loaded Mafia State by Luke Harding onto my Kindle. It’s the true story of the former Guardian foreign correspondent’s time in Moscow, being bugged, having his flat broken into and generally upsetting the Russian authorities.
Debbie is herself achain-smoker, a blousy strawberry-blonde with a tough, good-looking face. She says she can frequently be found alone in here in floods of tears having opened yet another heartbreaker. “Just before you got here,” she says, “I opened one that said, ‘Dear Santa. All I want for Christmas is for my mother and father to stop shouting at each other.’ I just fell apart.”
Jon Ronson visits the tiny Alaskan town of North Pole… where six pupils plotted a Columbine-style massacre.
Trailer released for upcoming PS3 game The Last of Us.
Yes, I know… it’s another Zombie game, but given this is from Naughty Dog- makers of the Uncharted series- I am hoping this will be more than ‘just another’ zombie game. Release slated for late 2012 / early 2013.
A reblog from December 2009. Tom McRae’s brilliantly melancholic cover version of “Wonderful Christmastime”. Happy Christmas.
