Required reading for everyone

propaganda critic: index of site dedicated to propaganda analysis
Want to know how you’re being manipulated? Want to know how to examine what you are told critically and independently? Read this. You’ll recognise some of the tricks striaght off, others will make your spine tingle. Its amazing how easy it really is. Learn to cut through […]

Lets Start The Revolution Here And Now

Are you fed up with being told what you can spend your money on? Are you fed up with the ‘We know best’ attitude of those in power over you? You are not alone. These are reasonable people, not political fanatics or activists who don’t wash, they are just like you and me. We work […]

Games Awards: BAFTA Vs Golden Joystick

Golden Joysticks: The aftermath
The Baftas - Latest Winners
Remember trying to explain a game to your dad? Remember his endearing but oh so futile attempts to connect with you by suggesting games you might like to play? The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is your dad. I have no problem with some of the […]

Ban on burning flags in UK

Flag burning could become crime - BBC
Without any kind of first amendment protection for freedom of expression in the UK this kind of proposal has no legal impediment. All that stands in the way of yet another restriction on our freedom is reasoned argument, and when was the last time any argument against the gov’t […]

My Political Education: Lesson 1, Part 3

If you haven’t been following this Part 1 and Part 2 are worth reading otherwise you won’t have any idea what we’re on about.
I contend that art (in terms of IP) should have the shortest protection possible (the lifetime of the artist), Midwesterner disagrees.
Here is my reasoning:
For the purposes of brevity art is defined as […]

Joint 27th with Lithuania…

In which ranking? Not one you would expect. In this ranking you would expect the UK and US to be top of the pile seeing as how they’re always harping on about freedom. The US even has an amendment in to their constitution to protect exactly this freedom, we have no such thing and we’re […]

Show EA The Money.

Thankfully I read up about the new Battlefield 2142 game online before I went out and paid £35 for it. EA have some cheek, apparently theres a little peice of software that gets installed along with the game which allows them to serve localised ads to you while you’re playing online. This seemingly innocuous program […]

Primer

I have just seen a film called Primer. Prepare to have to think, and think hard.
Touted as ‘Donnie Darko for grownups’ this film really hits the mark and is in the same kind of family as Pi and Cube. Two techie geeks who work for big firms through the day spend their time tinkering […]

The People Should Read Churchill

If you will not fight for the right, when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. […]

Spellcheck 2.0

presenceofmind.net brings the spellchecker into the 21st century. This needs to be done. I can see the implications for AI developement already, if a computer knows and understands the language then communication between humans and AI is that much easier. There are a multitude of online dictionaries available is there some way of tapping these […]

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