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The Theatre of Security

By Agent ⋅ May 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night’s Evening Standard reported on yet another indignity that long-suffering – or is that just plain dumb? – airport passengers will have to increasingly contend with. Security guru Bruce Schneier invented them term “theatre of security” to describe the largely meaningless, inefficient and often upsetting procedures that passengers are now routinely forced to undergo. [...]

Chris Eubank

By Agent ⋅ May 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I know Chris Eubank, who’s just been arrested for staging a protest outside Downing Street against the Iraq war, and I’ve had the exhilarating experience of speeding round London (the narrow lanes of Mayfair, to be precise) in his gigantic Peterbilt rig. The traffic wardens just wave and smile – Chris can park virtually anywhere [...]

Joined Jaiku

By Agent ⋅ May 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve just joined Jaiku – scroll down the LH menu and you’ll see what I’m currently doing.

A Vicious Little Man

By Agent ⋅ May 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Nice linguistic analysis of Bliar-speak from Robert Fisk in Today’s Independent. And some plain speaking from former US President Jimmy Carter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about Bliars’s real legacy.

Simon & Schuster Make Rights Grab?

By Agent ⋅ May 18, 2007 ⋅ One comment

There is a report that Simon & Schuster US are trying to alter their publishing contract to extend their copyright control of an author’s work “in perpetuity”. Normally, rights to a work will revert to the author once it is deemed out of print. I do hope this isn’t true or, if it is, that [...]

Wikileaks

By Agent ⋅ May 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s an interesting concept. An “uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis”. It combines the protection and anonymity of cutting-edge cryptographic technologies with the transparency and simplicity of a wiki interface. Elected on a “whiter-than-white” platform, Mr. Blair’s dying regime now seems just as sleazy as anything that previous governments have [...]

John Sweeney & the Scientologists

By Agent ⋅ May 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve had some experience of John Sweeney, the BBC reporter who is in hot water over his strange outburst, carefully preserved on video by the Scientologists, the subject of his investigation.
John is certainly an emotional man. But he’s also done some fine investigative reporting, particularly in regard to Professor Sir Roy Meadow, the first [...]

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