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Quote of the Day - http://thedailywh.at/2011...
showing that not every member of the campaign team should be allowed to quote from West Wing - Nik Butler
Made by Hand: Now in Paperback - http://blog.makezine.com/archive...
Everyone should have a grounding in basic skills and tool usage , its part of the human inheritance ? - Nik Butler
Silence Noisy Neighbors by Transmitting Your Music to Their Speakers [Evil Week] - http://lifehacker.com/5852903...
And the Award for Evil Genius MAKE ever goes to this project - Nik Butler
Tim O'Reilly: The heart of what is best in capitalism - https://plus.google.com/1070337...
Tim O'Reilly shaping up to be the next S Jobs leading with passion and confidence . What would happen if OReilly built a Device ? - Nik Butler
UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' - http://yro.slashdot.org/story...
because they are trying to define control on so many levels and failing to understand the impact ( or reduction in a market of new developers ) which trusted computer will have. - Nik Butler
Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world's total wealth - http://boingboing.net/2011...
Probably the clearest example of how much we fail to escape from a few controlling the many. despite our attempts in democracy and sharing. - Nik Butler
Credibility evaluation open-sourced - http://www.hypothes.is/
If Kred.ly and Klout have taken the approach that you will be scored if you like it or not then this might be the approach that says you can be scored according to your measure. - Nik Butler
Nick Bradbury asks: Is Google Reader being retired? - http://groups.google.com/group...
no matter which way Nick Bradbury wants to phrase it we all loose ! irony that I like reader as a social commentary comment form - Nik Butler
WikiLeaks Vs Facebook - http://www.buzzfeed.com/rtcomed...
can we insist that people are forced to read this every day - Nik Butler
Proposed UK Online Libel Rules Would Restrict Anonymous Posting - http://yro.slashdot.org/story...
File this under yet more things the Govt fails to understand about new society. The internet is making common conversation accessible and undermining centralised voices of dissent - Nik Butler
How Diaspora Found Its Tiger Stripe in the Midst of a Paypal Fiasco - http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2011...
hey PAYPAL ; your getting a Rep for being the 1% - Nik Butler
Comment of the Day: How OWS Should Spend Its Money [We Read You] - http://gawker.com/5850700...
And now the 99% have raised some capital and value only it wasnt the 99% it was probably 1% of the 99% ; do we begin to see a pattern emerge ? I know I did. - Nik Butler
Samuel L. Jackson Talks About His New Twitter Account - http://www.buzzfeed.com/tinytin...
what is means is your "web" guy knows fuck all about social media ! - Nik Butler
Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices, inconvenience - http://www.engadget.com/2011...
A Sudy which highlights many of the already known issues with DRM that pirates have been pointing out for many may years. Oh and the sky is blue and grass is green and cows go moo - Nik Butler
Dear Warren Ellis; have you not yet discovered that books are sideways scrolling adventure games with no real end of level bosses but still a sense of acheivement as you clear a chapter to two. - Nik Butler
How to set up a personalised Amazon Kindle screensaver - http://www.wired.co.uk/magazin...
I for one am suprised Amazon have not made this an income opportunity. - Nik Butler
Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? - http://torrentfreak.com/which-v...
Go through this and make your own decisions ; may be we need some space to share encrypted connections via cafe spots as well - Nik Butler
Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? - http://torrentfreak.com/which-v...
Go through this and make your own decisions ; may be we need some space to share encrypted connections via cafe spots as well - Nik Butler
BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012 - http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
hey British Telecom how about you stop promising and start delivering. oh and NO CAPS ! - Nik Butler
Looking to buy a Sub £400 laptop from Ebuyer - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Looking to buy a Sub £400 laptop from Ebuyer
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everything Broadstuff just said about the Kindle Fire ; yeah thats what I say as well. However Broadstuff missed an important point. Amazon are frustrating the market by not releasing it in the UK /Europe in the same time. - Nik Butler
Animaniacs' Nations Of The World Song - http://www.buzzfeed.com/lindad2...
they also fail to mention wales. - Nik Butler
Read Mitch Hedberg's Letter To The Uni-Ball Pen Company - http://www.buzzfeed.com/funnyor...
My Blog : Loudmouthman.posterous.com is written using the Gel impact uniball pens. I have to agree with Mitch Hedberg that these pens are THE MOST SATISFYING write ever. - Nik Butler
London warned Olympic games may mean mobile phone 'capacity crunch' (Juliette Garside/Guardian) - http://www.techmeme.com/110927...
Dear Mobile operators your supposed to INVEST your profits into your architecture; and that does not mean houses in the canaries ! you MUPPETS - Nik Butler
Mexico: Drug cartels shift threats to social media - http://boingboing.net/2011...
So I think if crimelords consider you as bad as journalists then your probably doing something wrong; or right ? - Nik Butler
Anti-malware hardware has the potential to make it illegal and impossible to choose to run Linux - http://boingboing.net/2011...
Linux has been at this junction before; the key phrase in all of this is the choice of motherboards. Keep in mind that MS is only dominant in the desktop but the server market is not their domain and the buyers market is the strong decider here. The result will be Signed boot for windows or secondary bios for other OS. - Nik Butler
Gang Used 3D Printers To Make ATM Skimmers - http://it.slashdot.org/story...
The press will latch onto these stories far more often and with greater alacrity than any 7yr old repraps her my little pony collection. We should be working on the positive angles of 3d printing to the press beyong ; ooh look yet another easter island statue - Nik Butler
3D printed AR-15 parts challenge firearm regulation - http://boingboing.net/2011...
Yet another thing when I talked about it people mocked yet here we are with the Govt likely to get a little itchy about people printing parts for guns - Nik Butler
Open Virtualization Alliance adds 100-plus members - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
and last year , last fracking YEAR when I said virtualisation would be important people said I was crazy ! - Nik Butler
Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites (Dan Goodin/The Register) - http://www.techmeme.com/110920...
when they say 'hackers' they actually mean Researchers when they say used by millions of sites what they wont say in that headline is that the vulnerability is in 1.0 and than 1.1 and 1.2 of SSL is secure. - Nik Butler
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