Posted on Wednesday, 11 August, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Wikileaks editor Julian Assange showing the decrypted military video from Baghdad attacks July 2007. Photo by jenny8lee via flickr
Before launching into the diatribe, I thought I’d accomplish the inverse of what most blog posts do (including those found on this site) and make my point first.
Now that we’ve got that sorted, what to do with it all? I don’t know what to say about the encrypted insurance file yet, no one knows what’s in it. Keep it, though. With the other one, well, have at it. do anything you want.
Be like the Guardian and mash it up in different ways and share how you did it. Crunch the data yourself and post it online. Save it on your hard drive somewhere in case different sites mirroring the information should for some mysterious reason come under attack. Burn it onto CDs and write “Dixie Chicks” on them in black marker. Copy them onto spare USB flash drives and leave them on busses, subways or any of your other preferred means of mass transit (In the UK some government agency workers do this by accident anyway) Make image files out of them and share them. Print them off and make wallpaper.
This is how the web works and it is an example of the web working.
Posted on Thursday, 29 July, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
A lady going by the name of “Angela” sent a message to me via the Committee to Protect Bloggers website contact form. Not only does she not know how to turn off caps-lock, she confused the committee website with Wikileaks and, I guess, me with Julian Assange. I’m flattered, but his hair is way better than mine.
Date and Time: Monday 26th July 2010 18:43:37
IP address: 96.243.197.224 (pool-96-243-197-224.tampfl.fios.verizon.net)
Message: HEY JULIAN — I HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF YOURSELF. FOR SOMEONE WITH SUCH A BIG MOUTH, YOU ARE PRETTY SLICK IN HIDING YOURSELF. IN MY OPINION, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. YOU DON’T CONSIDER OUR BOYS FIGHTING FOR US. NO MATTER WHAT THE COST, YOU HAVE TO FORCE YOUR WAY OF THINKING ON THE WHOLE WORLD. IN MY OPINION, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A CANDY ASS–JERK OFF. GET A LIFE AND DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE INSTEAD OF COSTING SOLDIERS THEIR LIVES. YOU ARE A REAL COWARD FOR HIDING. WHY NOT EXPOSE YOURSELF AND YOUR LOCATION TO DEBATE–IT FIGURES WHY YOU ARE HIDING — JUST LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
92,000 documents showing in detail how the U.S. brutally “pushes its opinion” on the world and this is what she comes up with?
Posted on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Something nerdy this way comes this weekend via the Cambridge Science Festival. Ok, sure, it’s Mothers day in UK and all that, but this Sunday is also World Pi Day. To help everyone truly appreciate the mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space (see this)] mathematician James Grime and magician Brian Brushwood are performing an online magic trick: “Check pidaymagic.com for instructions, or follow the event using the hashtag #pidaymagic. And, no matter where you are in the world, we will read your mind.”
With the power of the internet modern communication has been harnessed on a global level like never before.
Blogging on the net has now become the speakers’ corner for a new generation and gives individuals the chance to make a difference and spread their weird and wonderful messages. The Wordia.com team is helping us celebrate the Committee to Protect Bloggers‘ recent relaunch and expansion, and will be bringing forward a selection of great words throughout the week.
Posted on Monday, 4 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
IE is Being Mean to Me is an original song written and performed by web programmer Scott Ward. I originally stumbled across it at the blogWhy IE Sucks. There sure seem to be a lot of websites expressing hatred of that browser these days.
I’m an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people. — Katherine Hepburn
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With the power of the internet modern communication has been harnessed on a global level like never before.
I’m an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.