The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications - YouTube Blokes drive around Cornwall looking at manhole covers and work out the landing points of undersea cables, and where the GCHQ intercept points disclosed by Snowden might be.
(tags: cornwall cables telecommunications gchq internet edward-snowden porthcurno) Originally posted at Name and ( Read more... )

“The Culture represents the place we might hope to get to” | MetaFilter Mefi’s discussion of the (previously linked) recently published interview with Iain M Banks (RIP). It’s good.
(tags: metafilter iain-m-banks culture sci-fi sf science-fiction discussion) GCHQ’s ‘jihad on tech firms’ can only fail | Technology | The Guardian Blaming Facebook for ( Read more... )

NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations explained | World news | theguardian.com The Guardian’s summary of the story so far. Nicely presented.
(tags: politics snowden nsa surveillance encryption guardian privacy edward-snowden government gchq) Attenborrowed David Attenborough’s commentary on the mating habits of pop stars on ( Read more... )

The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm Tells it how it is.
(tags: twitter controversy funny storm satire) Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance - Better Humans - Medium “If you’re irrelevant at thirty, why live forever?”
(tags: silicon-valley ageism transhumanism aging) Ken Auletta: Can the Guardian Take Its Aggressive ( Read more... )

The mandatory tweets of the self-righteous vacillating centrist stats bore: a user’s guide - Telegraph Blogs "Sit back with a look of superiority on your face." Tee hee. I think I’ve probably used some of these (though not on Twitter of course, that’s for twits).
(tags: argument twitter funny) A plea for politeness; or, a call for kindness | Slave ( Read more... )