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  Dear Ken

  05.03.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Dear Ken,
  I’m fucking proud you were the last politician of the Thatcher era to survive into our own
  I’m fucking proud you beat Mandelson to the NEC elections in 1997
  I’m fucking proud you’re the only Labour politician to feature on a Blur track
  I’m fucking proud you stood up to the a rigged mayoral candidate selection process [...]

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  Guided by voices

  04.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A press release rehashed as a news article on the BBC website today - “Lie detector software saves £500k” states:
  Lie detector software has saved a south London council almost £500,000 it was losing through benefit fraud.
  During a phone call Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) software analyses minute changes in the voices of those claiming benefits to [...]

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  All in the database

  04.20.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  What’s creepier in this TV Licensing advert - the authoritarian insistence of the message that we’re all being watched for our own good, or its soft underbelly - the complete and unremitting faith in “the database”, in yielding awe of its panopticon abilities?

  Addendum: And I say this as someone who is quite fond of public [...]

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  Twitter’s success, and how to make money off it without being evil

  04.19.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  You know, this is the first weekend in forever where I’m able to relax. I’ve been spending most of today catching up on some RSS feeds, resetting unread ones and starting afresh, and trying to get through an enormous pile of unread copies of Private Eye. None of this has anything to do with the [...]

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  A quick del.icio.us lifehack

  04.03.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I love del.icio.us. I’ve been using it since, er, February 2005 and in that time I’ve built up (at latest count) 2,256 bookmarks. Only problem is that I tag a lot and have eclectic taste, so I have built up a stonking huge number of tags. So many so that that when I load [...]

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  Upgraded to WP2.5

  03.31.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Looks fine so far. Anything broken? Do tell.

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  Suspicious minds

  03.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I had seen these batshit-insane adverts for a couple of weeks already, but hadn’t got a decent shot of them to provide. Now I’ve found that the Met Police have kindly provided copies on their own website all along. Have a butcher’s below:

  If you take a photograph of something you “shouldn’t”, or so something [...]

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  How to write a David Aaronovitch column

  02.26.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Step 1: Go ad hominem from the very start and label your opponents as being part of some mythical self-styled intellectual commentariat (while ignoring just how eminently qualified you are yourself to belong to that same cadre):
  It has become an intelligentsia default position, or IDP for short, that we in Britain are - as one [...]

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