Monthly Archives: May 2010

Escaping the internet panopticon

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I’ll be returning to looking at the whole take back parliament thing later, but I’m still digging there so meantime I thought I’d pull together a few bits on something that I’m more familiar with. The Devils Kitchen has a link to an excellent article on the Panopticon Parliament which coming so close on the heals of Charlotte Gore’s article about the new front in the battle for liberty – prompted me to revisit an old bug bear of mine. Whilst we’re fighting tooth and nail (or at least letter and blog) to curtail the state intrusion into our lives, … Continue reading →

How they are related

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So back to the purple brigade, and many many thanks to Woman on a Raft for supplying me with some of this information (see comments here and here). I was getting quite confused as to how all the main players were related so I put together a bit of a family tree to try to make sense of it all. All of the information is in the public domain I’m just trying to put it together – in the spirit of our new open and transparent politics. Just to try to explain that a bit the dotted lines from BlueStateDigitial … Continue reading →

Can’t draw for toffee

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Now normally I really can’t draw, tonight I’m just back from the pub and my graphics tablet isn’t working so I had to use the trackball. Trackballs it seems are even worse for drawing than mice. However this is as good as it’ll get so for the First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day – here’s something…. Update A rather good article about why to draw Mohammad over at Greta Christina’s Blog and the Everyone Draw Mohammed blog