Month: September 2004

  • Porn, AIDS and data

    Couple of interesting articles. Lessig in Wired thinks compulsory metatags might protect kids from porn and protect free speech from arbitrary censorship (haven’t I heard something like this before?). Richard…

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  • Disposable legislation

    Like a lot of those harried urban Labour MPs we’ve been hearing from lately, I feel a sort of vague discomfort with the idea of people on horses rushing through…

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  • “It looks like we have a no-chute, sir”

    This is how you test the resilience and optimism (and sanity) of a human being. You ask him to work for 14 years on a space science project, you grant…

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  • An elephant

    Billie, my four year-old daughter, drew this beautiful elephant. That’s all I’ve got to say about it really… (of course, you can click the small pic for a bigger one).

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  • The beginning of the post oil era (again)…

    The prospect of the $50 barrel of oil is focusing the minds of the West’s policy makers and business leaders nicely. The last time we had a proper oil crisis…

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  • Beslan

    Is it possible (advisable, acceptable?) to blog Beslan? Blogging is such an utterly trivial thing to do with your time that even mentioning the apocalypse that overtook that town in…

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