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V.sunny @ ORG demo 'neath Churchill's watchful gaze. Examine Brain Hawes' hat & talk Putney Debates w/some quakers.
Polemical doc; Freud's amoral nephew Bernays twisted uncle's stuff to create PR / consumerism prior to 1929 crash http://snurl.com/48lxg
Join Open Rights Group this Saturday for Freedom Not Fear photo-action against data retention / surveillance http://snurl.com/47h20
Evgeny's article on Spore's DRM FAIL http://snurl.com/46ifl prompts good disc'n on Open Rights Group list http://snurl.com/46ihs
Via BBCWorldService: UKgov toolkit tells teachers to monitor kids as young as 5 for extremist views. WTF.
@rolandharwood re:TBL all worthy (i'm w3c fan) but web now culture not tech hence collision with incumbent culture (hierarchy, fear)
For @willmcinnes re:mapping/worldchanging; a shout out for tacticaltech's Visualizing Information for Advocacy: http://snurl.com/449i4
@willmcinnes Good mission. Seems gapminder-style visualisations now part of googledocs http://snurl.com/449cd
@ckreutz hello matey, i'm also interested in buzz monitor as we're about to commission a bespoke tool of our own
@billt Awesome; will def try to make that. I like the strapline "Where Does William Blake Live Now?"
@billt "The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
Gardening with volunteer parents at school. Good to have hands scratched & blooded by thorns instead of the numb touch of the keyboard.
Haven't watched PSA ads on Kosovan tv for a while. Landmine awareness / against kids working agri machinery / pro-decentralisation.
@josiefraser surely the irritating thing is morality itself? (as opposed to, say, ethics...
@ckreutz woopra looks slick :) i've been using reinvigorate.net for ages, though it's never seemed to go beyong beta
More online campaigning to block the bailout: nocashfortrash.org, bailoutmainstreet.com, theybrokeityoubuyit.com, http://snurl.com/415n9
Banner seen on C4 news: "Jail 'em, don't bail 'em".
Amazing how the sky over the Broadwater Farm estate looks like it's from a Turner landscape.