Archive for November, 2007
Data protection not worth the name
Wow, and while I’m on the subject too…
Did we really need any more convincing that a national ID database is a bad idea? Having worked in government and seen some of the extraordinary care some departments take over Data Protection, today’s breach is astonishing. I think this is the final straw that gets me signing [...]
ORG is two
A quick Happy Birthday to the Open Rights Group, whom I’m glad to be a supporter of. Put simply, without smart people like this fighting their/our corner, we’d be further down the path of privacy invasion, DRM, ill-informed media outbursts and excessive copyright.
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Animal Crossing
Never expected something from YTMND to put a lump in my throat. Click to play:
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Not an iPhone review
There are enough of them already. I just wanted to talk about two interesting things.
Interesting thing one
The dictionary is superb. See I predict a pint on the marvellous GrammarBlog. As I think Peter Morville commented previously, I think one of the most intelligent and thoughtful touches Apple added was to have swear words included by [...]
November links
Stop, filler time.
How To Be Ugly - the rise of New Brutalism in design
Google v Yahoo homepages over the last ten years
Why percentages don’t add up - which is scarier: a medical procedure with a 95% survival rate, or one that kills 1 in 20 people?
Spam One-Liners - “experiments in hand lettering… an ongoing series [...]
Busy
It’s no great surprise that my blogging frequency is inversely proportional to how busy I am. It’s not yet reached the stage where I’m staying horribly late and regretting my life, but it’s certainly at the stage where, when I get home, I tend to want to stay offline and decompress. Normally with my Benko [...]