January 2012
9 posts
3 tags
Jan 30th
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“Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame,...”
– Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
Jan 29th
3 tags
Jan 27th
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
10 notes
2 tags
Jan 15th
26 notes
“Unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are...”
– Jack Straw in evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee, 2005-12-13. (via The Guardian)
Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
4 posts
Dec 28th
3 tags
Dec 18th
6 notes
2 tags
Dec 14th
43 notes
1 tag
Dec 11th
11 notes
November 2011
4 posts
2 tags
Nov 21st
204 notes
2 tags
Nov 19th
1 tag
Nov 12th
Nov 5th
October 2011
19 posts
Oct 30th
84 notes
Oct 27th
2 tags
Oct 21st
1 note
3 tags
Oct 15th
4 tags
Oct 14th
Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
1 note
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Oct 10th
2 tags
Oct 9th
1 note
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Oct 9th
1 note
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Oct 9th
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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“I live in Hollywood, and I can’t understand the idea of volunteering...”
– Person of Interest creator Jonathan Nolan, io9 interview, 2011-10-05
Oct 8th
5 notes
“Authorities believe the contacts were mainly between the U.K.-based suspect and...”
– Glenn Greenwald (quoting Reuters), Execution by secret WH committee, Salon 2011-10-06 (part of me wonders which email header encodes that kind of information…)
Oct 8th
2 tags
“I have to say, it is genuinely unnerving to wake up in a Los Angeles hotel room...”
– Marshall Sella, GQ magazine, October 2011
Oct 7th
5 notes
1 tag
Oct 1st
1 tag
“Interestingly, there is one other theoretical option to ultimately get rid of...”
– It’s 2011. We live in a world where armed drones can, apparently legally, bomb buildings - but sending a suicide command to a botnet is unthinkable.
Oct 1st
September 2011
8 posts
1 tag
Sep 30th
Sep 24th
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Sep 23rd
2 tags
Sep 23rd
“The sisters sold their comparatively spacious two-bedroom house in Croydon to...”
– ‘Shoebox homes’ become the UK norm, BBC News, 2011-09-14 The future is designing-out things, starting with your books.
Sep 17th
“[Peter David] Gibson, from Hartlepool, is banned from using the name...”
– Anonymous and LulzSec case: four accused males appear in court, The Guardian, 2011-09-07
Sep 10th
1 tag
Sep 9th
August 2011
4 posts
1 tag
Aug 20th
Aug 20th
“Our spam filters use a few heuristics to determine what is spam and what is not...”
– Don’t use the word Louboutin when commenting on the story about Christian Louboutin. Another “please modify your behaviour for the benefit of the machines” moment.
Aug 13th
1 tag
“// NOW THIS LOOKS INTERESTING // YOU BETTER BELIEVE WE CALLED release_inmate()...”
– From the AntiSec release #ShootingSheriffsSaturday
Aug 6th
July 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“Prince William and Prince Harry are now using more secure instant messages to...”
– (Daily Mail)
Jul 31st
2 tags
“That was on Tuesday, September 11. It was the afternoon, less than three hours...”
– Pottergate: we publish the secret tapes, Daily Telegraph, 2002-09-06
Jul 10th