#politics
http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist-ireland-pub...
For all I make jokes about being a "good protestant boy", in the years since the Good Friday Agreeme...
Why does Peter Mandelson favour the Analogue Economy over the Digital? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/26/d...
Doctorow writing in the Grauniad about why the DEB is a bad idea on a social and economic level.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus/
A Number 10 petition against the current draft Digital Economy Bill. I strongly urge all of you who...
Charlie's Diary: Imbeciles
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/1...
Charlie Stross on the Digital Economy Bill. I am going to keep linking to stuff like this, because i...
Mandelson seeks to amend copyright law in new crackdown on filesharing | Politics | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/19/man...
Yep, looks like Doctorow is on the level. Right then. Letter writing ahoy. Get on with it, the lo...
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/breaking-leak...
Awaiting more detail/confirmation on this, but if right, then regardless of which side of the copyri...
http://viciousimagery.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-hom...
Yet another example of the Home Office's new rules on artists visas hammering at the creative indust...
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/disconnec...
Go here. Sign this. Now. It is almost certainly the most important and useful thing you will do t...
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/0...
I really do enjoy watching Mr Stross think about the near future. I have no idea if he's right or n...
http://www.ted.com/talks/gordon_brown.html
Watching this, I had to keep reminding myself that he's a politician, and that his words are unlikel...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/...
Not a topic I have a hugely vested interest in, being unlikely to marry or spawn, but it's a handy r...
http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-colum...
Yes, I'm linking to two of his pieces today. This is because he are smart and klever.
http://www.bratton.info/emergency.html
Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social,...
Shit, the London event is sold out. Still, I suppose that might be taken as a good sign. Maybe.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/me_on_mccain_on_tec...
In summary: The Bush administration has done things that may fuck the US intertubes. The McCain adm...