Mindless Link Propagation

This page lists the last 100 things Pre found interesting on the web.

03/02/2012 - Ben Goldacre's prediction on how the current NHS bill will proceed: GPs set up to fail, then privatized.

01/02/2012 - 'the publishing industry has lost all credibility as the keeper of culture it imagines itself to be.'

01/02/2012 - Even left wing politicians don't seem to want to talk about raising taxes. 'Why?' asks The Guardian.

31/01/2012 - Ah, the Olympics WILL have a lasting legacy in London. A legacy of pointless bureaucratic fascist rules. Nice one.

23/01/2012 - The Guardian talk to the Pirate Party founder about the fastest growing political movement in Europe. Yay!

20/01/2012 - The difference between a reader's taste and a publishers taste and why publishers get it so oft wrong.

16/01/2012 - A lovely little tool for making CSS3 style sheets with fancy pants rules.

15/01/2012 - Ten years before the end of the world in 1998, the band CUD sang about slack on the BBC.

15/01/2012 - The NY Times has an author on the problems with teamwork and how working alone fosters creativity.

12/01/2012 - The UK Pirate Party leader on the BPI sales figures this year showing the media just follow their spin.

05/01/2012 - Cla Shirky writes on the future of newspapers with so-called 'leaky' pay-walls as they become popular.

05/01/2012 - A short story by the awesome Greg Egan called 'Crystal Nights', which I enjoyed a lot!

03/01/2012 - Eorwid article on false positives from police dog alerts. The dogs do what they think the cops want.

29/12/2011 - Cory Doctorow's talk on the coming war against general computing is great.

09/12/2011 - An account of the arrest of Occupy LA protesters getting the boot while Wall Street fraudsters get rewarded.

07/12/2011 - Salon tells the story of The Papua New Guinean tribesman on facebook. Really interesting.

02/12/2011 - The music for the anti-piracy advert on millions of DVDs is itself pirated!

30/11/2011 - Polly Toynbee's Guardian article on Osborne's declaration of war on the poor is excellent.

17/11/2011 - Uk Uncut protestors pose as vodafone to go thank the tax-man for letting 'em off so much tax.

16/11/2011 - Groklaw on Microsoft's nasty patent behaviour against Android. Software patents suck.

11/11/2011 - Yay! It's a new Cyriak video, and it's got cats! Mutant monster kitty cats!

07/11/2011 - What happens when 20 minutes worth of fireworks accidentally goes up in 50 seconds instead? Cool happens.

28/10/2011 - The Creative Commons Website for all your campaigning needs!

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28/10/2011 - CEO wages go up as fast as ever. Do they deserve it, or is it just a con? Via @theoesc

24/10/2011 - Graphics and charts showing exactly what #OWL and #occupyLSX are complaining about. Don't buy the lie that they don't know.

21/10/2011 - Economist mourns the passing of Richie, who invented the unix era. Are we now entering Unix's Anno Domini?

20/10/2011 - Copyright holders and their contempt for their audience. Monopolies tend to do that.

17/10/2011 - Someone sues facebook for violating wiretap laws. Is not keeping the data an legal excuse?

14/10/2011 - The NYT on Dennis RItchie's death. He'll live on, in a sense, through C and Unix.

12/10/2011 - The Atlantic on a google email account being hacked, and computer security in general. Good but long story.

12/10/2011 - Ha, interview with @robolollycop about his book in which he extols the virtues of editing. Maybe he's finally learned!

11/10/2011 - Already told my phone ISP to stop blocking random things it thinks are porn. Now I'll have to tell my home ISP too.

10/10/2011 - The Independent on Charles C Mann's book describing the history of prohibition... of tobacco.

05/10/2011 - George Monbiot on government's cuts to social welfare rather than corporate welfare

30/09/2011 - Ben Goldacre's TED talk, in which he talks about evidence and improving our science processes.

30/09/2011 - You all know that the FBI set up that guy with the remote controlled airplanes, right? They 'foiled' their own plot.

27/09/2011 - A five minute video with Matt/Trey following their weekly work doing Southpark.

21/09/2011 - Part 2 of Jon Ronson's video investigation of astroturfing on the net. His voice is so soothing.

04/02/2012 - Robert Wilson's old 70s article in "Oui" on quantum and consciousness things. Interesting, but unlikely.

14/09/2011 - Adam Curtis on Think Tanks and Freedom Of Choice. I heard his voice in my head as I read this. Excellent.

13/09/2011 - A good article describing the decent into insanity of US Republican party politics.

13/09/2011 - A top Salon article on the disaster capitalists taking over schools.

12/09/2011 - Awesome, now bus-stops get the 'live departure board' treatment. Know when the next bus arrives!

12/09/2011 - Some pictures of a beach formed from dumped bottles: Glass beach. ( Via @theoesc )

12/09/2011 - 'The government has no coherent digital rights policy' - dead right.

26/08/2011 - Chomsky lays out the current world/US situation with his usual candor and eloquence.

25/08/2011 - Ok Go and the Muppets doing a video together? That's as much fun in three minutes as you'd expect. Lots.

23/08/2011 - Casey Hardison's legal case on the government to force it to bring tobacco and alcohol under the Drugs Act

23/08/2011 - RMS says the lawyers and politicians try yet again to sneak software patents into Europe. Bastards.

22/08/2011 - What happens to a country that goes bankrupt but refuses IMF demands? Look to Iceland to see.

20/08/2011 - What happens when you video with your iphone from inside a guitar, strobing the strings? Cool happens!

19/08/2011 - I like looking at this 'Where's Wall-E' picture mostly for looking for OTHER robots. Very nice.

19/08/2011 - A wicked bit of data visualization showing the results of a sex survey. Fun to play with!

18/08/2011 - An Al Jiazeera report on western democracies following the oppressive regimes towards 'net censorship

18/08/2011 - Good news everyone! The cannabis genome project is complete! We can now spell cannabis in DNA.

15/08/2011 - The guy who put a pie in Murdoch's face has some kinda prison diary here which is interesting.

28/07/2011 - 'More Trustworthy Than Murdoch' isn't a great slogan, but the BBC are indeed ace as this blogger says.

28/07/2011 - Adam Curtis 'rough-cut' on newspapers and political power pre-Murdoch. Curtis rocks so much.

25/07/2011 - Fingers crossed that this guy's right and google make G+ into the "backbone" of an open social network.

24/07/2011 - A nice Scientific American article on the evidence for multi-verses and parallel worlds.

22/07/2011 - Email hacking to get the dirt on phone-hacking to get the dirt on celeb shagging. What a crazy world.

13/07/2011 - Interesting proposals on how to make the banking system safer, and short vid on where money comes from.

13/07/2011 - Will Hollywood repeat the Music Businesses mistakes? Pirate content still BETTER than legit.

29/06/2011 - A link to Google's Web Fonts, which appears to be a nice way to spruce up a website. That'll come in dead handy.

23/06/2011 - New Scientist article on evolving multi-cellular life in the lab. Unexpected result, easier than expected.

15/06/2011 - Nice article that expresses the niggling annoyances I've been having with ORMs lately #programming

03/06/2011 - Harsh but fair IMF rant from @johannhari101 is a good read if you wanna feel righteously angry.

03/06/2011 - Ideas are sexy! The WSJ on 'collective brains' and the invention of invention, how ideas interact.

30/05/2011 - Nice little copyfight rant from @doctorow - The pirates become the mainstream, then complain of piracy.

20/05/2011 - Eli Pairiser's TED interesting talk is about how the robots at Facebook and Google control what you see.

20/05/2011 - Edge.org's 2011 question: Scientific concepts to improve thinking. Great answers from smart people.

19/05/2011 - An excellent rap from Juice Media on the assassination of Bin Laden.These guys keep doing well.

17/05/2011 - Good one: Australia considers banning all plants containing DMT. Which is lots. Inc. their national flower.

16/05/2011 - The UKCIA take us through the connections between cannabis, mental health, and prohibition. Good writeup.

13/05/2011 - Information Is Beautiful present a chart summarizing the evidence for health benefits of various remedies

08/05/2011 - Chomsky on Bin Laden: 'the operation was a planned assassination...violating international law"

03/05/2011 - Bin Laden is dead, so they say, but how much of his mission succeeded? Will he bankrupt us yet?

02/05/2011 - George Monbiot here explains what is missing from environmentalist creeds. Why they can't work.

27/04/2011 - Charlie Brooker on the AV campaigns, and the absurdity of Yes AND No.

27/04/2011 - My MLP service has new owners. It's the youtube guys. Hurray!

31/03/2011 - Johann Hari points out that protest does have an effect, it has and continues to do so.

28/03/2011 - XKCD shows us the beauty in Dog Vomit slime-mould. Oh yes. Science sees beauty everywhere.

21/03/2011 - Just why don't journalists link to primary sources? Is it because they want to distort and lie?

18/03/2011 - Johann Hari on the natural human post-disaster panic, and how it doesn't exist we instead have caring.

11/03/2011 - The solution to an oil price shock is NOT cheaper oil! It's QUITTING oil!

09/03/2011 - Uncut version of Newsnight's interview with Chomsky, who is as awesome and astute as ever.

07/03/2011 - Michael Moore's speech to the unions/protestors in Wisconsin - America is NOT broke. The rich are loaded!

07/03/2011 - Professor Nutt assures us that the is NO safe level of alcohol consumption. Every glass increases risk.

04/03/2011 - iPad rant from @charltonbrooker on #10oclocklive was awesome, and now it's on the web too! Thanks C4!

28/02/2011 - Ben Goldacre on Sniffer Dogs and Security Theatre and how the world isn't how it seems.

23/02/2011 - George Monbiot details the software governments and corps are using to help their astroturfing campaigns.

14/02/2011 - Review of a DVD 'What is Cannabis Cures Cancer', which examines some of the medicinal benefits.

14/02/2011 - How grassroots protest against massive corporate tax-evasion can actually work.

11/02/2011 - A good analysis of the MS/Nokia deal. It's not great for Nokia. Guess my next phone is a droid.

09/02/2011 - George Monbiot takes us through how the tories are cutting corporate tax, hurting the poor to help the rich

07/02/2011 - Paul Mason looks into what might be happening to be causing revolutionary actions across the globe.

03/02/2011 - Neal Stevenson takes us through the historical accidents and current lock-ins that keep us using rockets.

02/02/2011 - Anarchish's funny guide to the exciting sport of kettling, played at a protest near you very soon.