Now, this is fascinating…

Lifted from insom­nius, because I’ve been very lazy and not work­ing on Wikipedia/Wikinews recently, so I was unaware of this: I’m sure you’ll see this splattered all over your inter­net, but I think it’s hil­ari­ous that the block of IP addresses used...

{ariel flux} update

All right! Most pro­duct­ive thing I did all week­end was a lazy two-hour coffee with andrew from engage media among other things, and we chat­ted about drupal sites for about five minutes. As a result of that, I changed the theme I was using...

Subversion, spies and security briefings

Just read this art­icle about the US’ plans to ‘fight the net’ as an enemy weapons system if it comes down to it, spe­cific­ally plans to “dis­rupt or des­troy the full spec­trum of glob­ally emer­ging com­mu­nic­a­tions sys­tems, sensors, and weapons sys­tems...

Go, Morales!

Bolivi­a’s first indi­gen­ous leader, Evo Mor­ales, halves his own pay as one of his first acts of parliament. This means all public ser­vice jobs will be reviewed, because no one can earn more than the pres­id­ent. And he plans to spend the money saved on more...