Great - Facebook are hiding privacy opt-outs behind 'Learn More' info links. This sounds familiar somehow:
http://bit.ly/bYDXYL

Today, I went through my privacy settings in Facebook and locked out the crappy 'defaults' pushed by facebook recently.
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy

And then also blocked ads from using my info to trick friends!
http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?ads

Boy, do I feel better.

Four boxes or "media has been disabled" messages at the bottom of your post? You've been got by the worm that was wandering LJ earlier today - http://news.livejournal.com/117957.html for details ( Read more... )

For anyone who's intersted in Microsoft's recent Polish 'gaffe' ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/26/microsoft_head_transplant/ )

The report of a similar 'shopping at http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-of-lublin-broken-token.html and the comments from Polish people is illuminating and adds much-needed context, whichever ( Read more... )

From the front page of http://www.symantec.com:


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Nice article on the latest entirely unbiased anti-science, psychiatry  'museum' - and it's not the creationists this time. :/

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=7752

Choice quote from article: "Psychiatry is behind eugenics, all acts of genocide, the Holocaust, and terrorism."... "There are enormous posters of patients in restraints, and models of evil ( Read more... )

(held over from yesterday)
That's amusing.

I've just been 'followed' on twitter by 'FlowerEssence (SeanMartinezDantonet)'. whose bio details that they:

"Love working with people, and have the pleasure of bringing negative mental and emotional states into balance w/Flower Essences b4 becoming physical problems."
I assume that she's picked me out from ( Read more... )

You know, local elections always bring out the worst in some people, and parties.

Returning home from Farnborough yesterday, myself and Kit noticed that we were passed a sign for one of the 'issue' political parties (the UKIP, I believe), poking over a fence insisting "Say NO to unlimited immigration".

Being wishy-washy Guardian readers, we were ( Read more... )

Surprisingly fun for a one-sided conversation:

Neal's Yard Remedies were invited for a Q&A session by The Guardian online's Ethical Living blog - and then refused to participate when the questions weren't what they were expecting. Oopsie.

(From Skepchick)

For anyone who's wondering what the fuss is about the new Facebook style, this post puts it down far better than I would, in a pretty well measured and reasoned post and if there's a certain amount of annoyance bleeding through, well, the author has probably managed to justify it in the post itself.
( http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id= ( Read more... )