This seems to be doing the rounds a lot. It certainly rings a few bells with me.

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“it’s only natural that we equip the companies that brought us Police Academy 11, Windows Vista, Milli Vanilli and Celebrity Dancing With the Stars with wire-cutters that allow them to disconnect anyone in the country on their own say-so, without proving a solitary act of wrongdoing.”

From Boing Boing here

Interesting arcticle about Japanese digital work. All pretty much true I reckon.

article here

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How a very simple question earned Amazon $2.7billion. They started off assuming people would read all the reviews, then realized that when there were many reviews they got a lot of rubbish. So why not rate the reviews?

article here

My brother’s just gone out to a remote outpost in Antarctica to beam back videos to UK classrooms for 9-10 year olds. It’s all about renewable energy and climate change. Have a look if you have a spare moment. (Plus you can admire Jamie’s rather natty beard…)

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Here’s a story picked up by boing boing about a man arrested in the UK as a terrorist, held for 2 days, had his house searched and his DNA permanently put on record as potential terrorist plotter for using his camera phone. But hey, as long as you’ve got nothing to hide you’ve got nothing to fear right?

from boing boing here

see them here guvnor