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co-op  (2)


  • Heating your home with a wood-fired boiler
  • Lambeth Council to spin out services as co-ops

Culture bucket  (43)


  • How the UK Minister for Culture & Media justifies web censorship
  • Default public licensing of copyrighted works (9)
  • Mulve: oh, for f***’s sake. (1)
  • Gruen Transfer
  • Ode to the UK Prime Sinister
  • The weekend’s almost here, so here’s 5 minutes of gleeful madness
  • Vid: More - by Mark Osborne
  • Video: People are strange
  • Random: Fluid Sculpture
  • Adam Curtis Greencine interview
  • Rishi
  • Namaste! (3)
  • Eliza Doolittle
  • Urban artists think big (2)
  • Living a Cheat Neutral lifestyle
  • I may be studying biochemistry... (4)
  • Absolutely astonishing (2)
  • Godwin's Law? (2)
  • Context is king (7)
  • Backlash against microcredit grows
  • Digital analogue
  • Wireframe graffiti (2)
  • Google Earth just keeps getting better and better
  • WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences
  • A song to make your spine tingle (1)
  • Self-replicating, open source 3D printers (4)
  • The birth of the newspaper
  • Men's Fear, for GQ Magazine Russia
  • Cool tshirt
  • Fact for Easter Friday
  • Pretty cool London streetart
  • Julius Popp - writes with rain
  • Advice to sink in slowly (1)
  • Milk: buy it on Amazon
  • Mystery Jets
  • Steve Rura - buff!
  • Really rather good new band, #1
  • That's some good photo, dude
  • Urban Rot (2)
  • How good is this!!
  • Revolution over at EvokeONE (1)
  • Howard Rheingold at TED
  • Fact for the day

Insolite  (2)


  • Vast EU research grant fraud uncovered, millions lost
  • NSFW: Oklahoma judge used penis pump during trials (1)

Legal  (15)


  • UK government amends data protection and cookies law
  • Hargreaves Reform
  • Bastiat, the BSA, and the Sun (1)
  • Facebook's new messaging system
  • On coding, and writing contracts
  • DRM: what'cha gonna do about it?
  • “America thrives on competition; Barbie, the all-American girl, will too.”
  • Rule of law, Rule of sponsors
  • Jabulani Justice
  • The Facebook Data Protection Act letter (3)

Lifestream  (39)


  • Getting a cutting edge Android smartphone for £85
  • Giving new life to damaged patented items is infringement! (1)
  • Freecycle absurdity
  • Education, Unltd: Part 3 – the personal connection
  • The Anti-wisdom of the Crowd: tourists
  • Facebook is Irish! (let the fun begin) (1)
  • The co-op
  • Back in the land
  • Facebook users - NB
  • Tokyo
  • Quickie
  • China wrap-up (3)
  • Beijing/Shanghai (2)
  • A-nyhao!
  • India on the road - Part 2 (3)
  • India - a summary (6)
  • India on the road (2)
  • Travel bureaucracy: a nightmare (2)
  • A lesson learnt (12)
  • Revision (3)
  • Friends Reunited
  • The Fred Wilson effect (a.k.a: social networking dividend of an open, public conversation) (7)
  • An apology - Facebook frienders (6)
  • Holy Crap! (3)
  • Twitter change
  • 50,000 scrobbled tracks; Last.fm, I love thee!
  • Twitter summary 28/03/2008
  • The Mystery Jets (1)
  • Archive system change
  • Last.fm - at LAST, the Great Big Jukebox in the Sky is coming! (1)
  • Dissertation Over!
  • Holy cow
  • Twitter
  • Dead time
  • Oxford Geek Nights 5
  • Idea Idol 2008

Musings  (99)


  • Stewart Brand, on viruses and the scale of things
  • Using viruses to deliver upgrades to your brain
  • On: riots and distributed denial of service attacks
  • What is wealth?
  • What was Swedish arrest warrant anomaly surrounding Assange about?
  • Education, Unltd: Part 4 – closing thoughts
  • Education, Unltd: Part 2
  • Education, Unltd: Part 1
  • Freedom of Information
  • On the Happiness of the Fat and the Bereaved
  • Hamas’ latest “freedom fighters”: lawyers?
  • Stolen post: BONUSES & IDEOLOGY
  • It’s happened
  • Major internet players stand strong against (Mandy’s) Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill
  • Odd, horrible tidbit
  • Study predicts 50% of all patents will be owned by just 150 big companies
  • Nobody ever expects… the Corfu Inqusition! (6)
  • Imagine a country…
  • Re. Santa
  • Obscene: UK gov’t uses back door in anti-mafia powers to fund itself (1)
  • BNP disgraced by the Royal British Legion (2)
  • The Chinese, by any other name…
  • The paradox of being good
  • Excerpt of the day
  • Skype for free on Three
  • TED assembly
  • Unintended consequences of control – booze
  • How feasibly can we actually drop our global CO2 production? (2)
  • Innovation - a subtle disease?
  • Microphilanthropy is to traditional charity what dual core processors are to single-core processors (3)
  • Paradoxical lifestyles (4)
  • Backyard boffins beating Europe's biggest (1)
  • Manifesto for Microphilanthropy (8)
  • ReadWriteWeb totally nails conversation fragmentation - FriendFeed the huge beneficiary
  • Hyperefficient solar panels
  • Genes to Memes to Temes (techno-memes) (3)
  • WTF-of-the-day: Friday 30th May '08 (3)
  • Energy (9)
  • Your food has... software?! (5)
  • Last.fm taking major step towards becoming great big clever iTunes in the sky (12)
  • Google Friend Connect - part 2: The largest Social Network ever built (5)
  • Google Friend Connect - part I: it's about the data
  • Productivity in the enterprise - Twitter-style
  • Addictive Collaboration
  • 13% would bank through Facebook (4)
  • Arsenal FC transfer budget to be cut 'because of property market slowdown' (4)
  • Conversation platforms will make blogs increasingly redundant (16)
  • Daily moment of zen
  • What's to come: the future of social media consumption (5)
  • Is Google using your brain as you browse?
  • Seesmic buys a Twitter client: a big step for desktop micro-broadcasting (3)
  • iPlayer; licence fee subsidies
  • Football managers getting sanctioned by the FA for speaking out against refs
  • Does the government have the right to switch off/jam our telecoms?
  • Oxford University launches 2008 venture capital fund for own students (2)
  • Virgin Media anti-piracy: who's the crook now, eh?! (3)
  • What does a 'Forward' email button do to society?
  • Should new media actually try to compete with piracy?
  • The semantic elephant in the room - Google will settle the "top down vs. bottom up" debate for us (9)
  • WTF-of-the-day
  • Has Elvis Costello inadvertently stumbled on the future direction of physical media retailing?
  • Ever watched robot wars?
  • Matt Mason, The Pirate's Dilemma (2)
  • Future trends in philanthropy: targeted donation, wikicharity
  • Personal responsibility
  • Your thoughts are no longer private: scientists can already tell what you've seen just by scanning your brain
  • Nine Inch Nails: distribution by pirate
  • Hi-def DVD format wars over? Hah. (2)
  • Dallas News is Crowdsourcing JFK conspiracy theories! (1)
  • EXTEND music copyright?? What is the European Commission smoking? (2)
  • Can contests improve education?
  • Criticism of the X Prize Foundation (2)
  • NYTimes: The Prize Economy and Philanthropy (3)
  • The Big Bang (of OTCC)

New science  (14)


  • Genetically engineering human tissues enters clinical age
  • Things you probably never knew toxoplasmosis could do to you
  • Evil capitalists are out to get you – salad edition
  • Microbial fuel cell not just a hydrogen creator, can also generate electricity

Snapshots  (14)


  • A warning to Spiderman enthusiasts
  • From our travels: Glam
  • From our travels: Taking flight
  • From our travels: Thank you for your understanding
  • From our travels: Truth be told
  • From our travels: They turned their backs on us
  • From our travels: Niketown
  • From our travels: Good robot
  • From our travels: Glad you ain’t here
  • From our travels: Cordon bleu
  • From our travels: Wish
  • From our travels: Short & stout
  • From our travels: Hardwood Temple
  • From our travels: Progress

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