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Can You Trust Your Computer? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:32:07 -0800

This was written in 2002. The situation is now a lot more frightening. If you use Windows whilst online I suggest you download the Comodo firewall, enable Defence+ and select "Paranoid" mode to find out just how often software on your machine is connecting to the internet, modifying "protected" registry keys and demanding independent access to hardware. I'm not just talking Windows Update or checks on your Media Library for pirated files here. You''ve got notepad open for well, making notes, do you need it to access the internet without asking first - Microsoft seem to think so.

Freedom to view and modify source code means the right to access the part of software on a machine which is human readable as opposed to the binaries compiled from this which are a mass of ones and zeros readable only by a machine. OK, the majority of computer users cannot read source code, but some can and this means that Free Software has to do what it says on the tin. I'll never have the technical knowledge of people like Richard Stallman who wrote this article, but the fact that these people exist protects us all.

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum | The Onion - Americas Finest News Source

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:57:36 -0800

Internet Safety 101

The Wall paper house offers cheap dry home for poor and displaced - Times Online

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:18:23 -0800

Just one thing - Are they fireproof?

Nazca civilisation sealed its own fate by cutting down last line of defence - Times Online

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:16:23 -0800

A new study argues that the collapse of the Pre-Columbian Nazca civilisation was due to deforestation, leading to vulnerability to El Nino events.

Ralph Lauren stick insect sacked for being too fat • The Register

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:35:50 -0700

Filippa Hamilton, 5'10" and 120lbs and featured in the Ralph Lauren Photoshop stick insect outrage - in which she was Photoshopped to within an inch of her life - claims she was sacked by the company for being "too fat". Ralph lauren has been forced to apologise for the ad after their ludicrous attempts to threaten Photoshop Disasters and BoingBoing with Copyright infringement for featuring the ridiculous ad on their web sites just led to more grief for the company. They haven't apologised to the model or the websites yet.

http://www.doggieloverdoll.com/releaseIN.htm

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:52:45 -0700

Poor dog

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cat registered as hypnotherapist

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:00:50 -0700

"George was registered with the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming (BBNLP), the United Fellowship of Hypnotherapists (UFH) and the Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner Association (PHPA). "

George is a cat. Still, if you're a believer in "choice" and welcome any alternative to allopathic medicine and blinkered western rationalism, go ahead - don't let speciesism stand in your way. Please refrain from campaigns for unregulated quackery to be accepted in the National Health Service, problems are bad enough with resources being moved from patient care to managerial and administrative structures. Qualified and experienced staff are under attack from 'modernisers' who would like to replace them with people who've done a few hours training in psychobabble.

Armonia fractal de Doñana y las marismas

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:59:22 -0700

More about the video at The Fractal Harmony of Donana and the Wetlands. (Spanish and English versions)
Unmissable photographs at http://www.hectorgarrido.com . The blog is in Spanish but you can gawp at the pics without understanding a word. Details of the exhibition travelling Spain at La Casa de la Ciencia. They've produced a book of Hector Garrido's photographs too.

Poetry International Web - Ahmed Shahawi and the Challenge to Fanaticism

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:10:01 -0700

You are my most ancient book

My journey into proverbs

My journey onto the wind

And in my mothertongue
You the mother

Tenorio Jr. - Nebulosa

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:34:05 -0700

This guy disappeared at such a young age, kidnapped in Argentina while touring with Vinicius de Moraes. Vanished in the dark vaults of dictatorship. This was recorded in 1964, the comment is off YouTube, I found this on Hidekimorais' site