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The lengths the US government goes to, to try and convince its subjects that they are under threat from dark forces is truly incredible: My father, a Palestinian professor named Sami Al-Arian, was arrested over four years ago on trumped-up terrorism charges and submitted to a prosecution over the course of six months that . . . → Read More: The USA under a fascist government One of the brilliant pictures in Nick Garrod’s Flickr photostream – take a look. NB: Studio produced a large map of London using only the words of the names of locations for the exhibition My London / My City, which was part of the London Design Festival 2006. Called London’s Kerning, it won the Design Week Award in February this year. They are selling a limited edition . . . → Read More: A to Z without the lines Note to self: From some time in May, iTunes should be offering DRM-free tracks from EMI. Here’s a list of artists who are signed up with EMI. Gill gave us a G.W. Bush calendar last Christmas, which has been a source of much amusement so far – each day’s sheet has a quotation from the US President. However, if you don’t have the calendar, it’s OK – the White House web site is also a good source for his quotes. Like . . . → Read More: “My job is to make decisions” In the Guardian today: Electronic signatures scanned on to driving licences and passports differ so much from people’s usual signatures that they may not guard against fraud, it has been claimed. Well, that’s hardly surprising – instead of your normal signature, you usually have to squeeze it into a little box which is too . . . → Read More: Fraud fears regarding scanned signatures on documents One law for Wolfowitz, and another for the third world. What a pity the same standards don’t apply in both cases. It could be summer today – over 22°C and a completely blue sky. Lovely. Matthias Wandel likes building Lego (TM) machines. So he used Lego to test this pager when he was working on a project in 1998 at RIM (Research in Motion, who you probably have heard of as the makers of the Blackberry phone/communications device) and billed the Lego bricks to the . . . → Read More: Industrial Testing using Lego If you have any plans to visit the spectacular Grand Canyon Skywalk, you will probably be interested to read this article first – here’s the salient point: We walked in to get the tickets and met a very long line of people waiting to do the same. After 10 minutes of waiting, a “Question . . . → Read More: The Great Grand Canyon Skywalk Rip-off |
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