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Watch the full, unedited version: 'You're like a dog at the controls of a helicopter...' http://www.channel4.com/news/charlie-brooker-jon-snow-games-ps4-playstation-video

Faces in Things @FacesPics Admit it, you see a face. https://twitter.com/FacesPics

Happy birthday, Danny Marquiss!

MOAR GOOGLE NOW!!! http://gigaom.com/2013/11/27/google-now-nearly-on-your-computer-with-googles-voice-search-extension-for-chrome/

Great visual explanation of Sea Level (in case you didn't already know). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q65O3qA0-n4

Loving this from Team Kano.  Shame they're not shipping until the summer! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexklein/kano-a-computer-anyone-can-make

Not difficult this one. I don't sign many. But this ticks important boxes: Climate Change Reputable (mostly!) serious organisation. State injustice vs individuals and political dissent (Russia) https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/shell-gazprom-arctic-30

It wasn't me!

To Discuss...: Inviting Mark Sta Ana & Charlie Adams (& mentioning alison adams & loulou santa ana for info... this is a private post seen only by those copied in). So... Charlie is talking about a console on his xmas wishlist. Initially he would be happy with an XBox 360 - mainly to run FIFA14. However with the new consoles coming out we need to consider them too. Of the new ones I tend to agree with the thinking and conclusions in this Engadget piece (they favour PS4 as cheaper & more powerful and dedicated to gaming).  It also aligns with my general dislike of Microsoft and we can and will be able to do plenty of "connected media" things via alternative methods/devices so the "Xbox as media-hub" thing is actually unattractive to me (who wants MSFT as their gateway to  media consumption?). There is a also the consideration of which network (Sony vs XBox) Cherlie's mates are on (now, and into the future). Possibly staying on a previous gen. Xbox...

Richard Heinberg on recent Krugman statements. #FT "Evidently, Respectable People are starting to discuss The End of Growth." http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/1961268-krugman-goes-splat

As requested Charlie Adams http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/gifs-that-will-make-you-laugh-every-time?bftw&s=mobile

Good video on 4.4/KK features here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TD3Z03l2I&feature=share&list=PLBsP89CPrMeOA6Ypzvu4hfZigZIRBclY-

We Can Haz KitKat #FT #Android   #KitKat   #Nexus   Updates on Nexi 4 & 7 underway.... more news later.... http://www.android.com/kitkat/

Somebody linked me to this on FB earlier. Top stuff :) ooooo-oooo-oooooooo-ooo http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v%3DoE_lQmM74lA%26feature%3Dshare&a=8pHLAywMOv71yLnnty0sZQ

Great commercial to get kids excited about engineering Love this commercial! GoldieBlox hopes to get girls excited about engineering. That is what Tynker is doing with programming. Everyday thousands of kids are learning to code using Tynker. Tynker will be conducting a workshop this weekend in partnership with +GirlsInnovate at NestGSV to help girls explore and learn about the joy of coding and creating.  Have a girl age 7-13 interested in technology? Learn more about the workshop here:  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/programming-workshop-with-tynker-tickets-8820471267 Learn to code at home: www.tynker.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpe3Up9T_g

Buddhist Extremist Cell Vows To Unleash Tranquility On West  Read The Onion's Full Report:  http://onion.com/1aGNM4j http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_l_7eX6Sho

Awe. Some. (even on mobile devices) http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/a-journey-through-middle-earth-chrome.html

Hey Charlie Adams  Check out this Android game: Star Wars: Tiny Death Star https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lucasarts.tinydeathstar_goo Watch the video for a mini review :) http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=/watch?v%3DcWUnx4wymnQ%26feature%3Dshare&a=WN5mtVkHi51HRjOwKfSzJQ

This is made for Charlie Adams! Had you seen it already? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19z4VTCR9M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Nicely presented piece on walls to divide nations/areas. Sad, yet inevitable? #FT   http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2013/nov/walls

Star Wars Episode 1 in a gif Posted by ProoffReader in reddit.com/r/FullMovieGifs

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Create your own fake London Underground service information signs with this simple app. http://tnw.co/17FNaxR

Latest from Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen. #T Appears not to be available via streaming services... I may have to buy it! Getting 5 star reviews - e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/24/arve-henriksen-places-worship-review See also: http://www.arvehenriksen.com/ https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/arve-henriksen-saraswati?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=googleplus

Short Story by Doris Lessing alison adams  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/07/07/1997_07_07_066_TNY_CARDS_000378428?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=google+&mobify=0

Google Play Music All Access: a Spotify beater?  http://tnw.co/1fK9aYu

Interesting piece on Avaaz #FT Inside Avaaz – can online activism really change the world? http://gu.com/p/3kc4j http://gu.com/p/3kc4j

63% left http://en.sommer-sommer.com/braintest?data=NjMsMzc%3D

Auto Awesome from Bob's Party.

A young person makes a mistake and commits a nonviolent offense--and we lock them in prison until they die there??? It sounds incredible, but that happens repeatedly, as my column notes. The stories are unbelievable. Help spread the word about the need for reform. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/opinion/kristof-serving-life-for-this.html?ref=nicholasdkristof&_r=0

Which philosopher are you? Your Result: Aristotle Truth does not exist in some transcendent realm. We get to truth by applying reason to the physical world. The world follows logic and commonsense. Science if done properly is not to far from philosophy. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer. Result Breakdown: 83% Aristotle 71% Sartre/Camus (late existentialists) 65% Early Wittgenstein / Positivists 57% Plato (strict rationalists) 50% Immanuel Kant 24% W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein 24% Nietzsche Quiz URL: http://www.gotoquiz.com/which_philosopher_are_you http://www.gotoquiz.com/which_philosopher_are_you

Roddy: Celebrating 30 years of HLHR. #FT Tagging Iain McNeil http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l8nlh

YouTube and Google+ Comments - a different view; from the G+ side My friend Eli Fennell has made a masterpiece with 'the view from the other side' of this issue with this classic use of the famous Hitler video clip. Watch the whole thing if you can but when it hits 1:27 in my view is when it really gets me laughing. Most of the conversations I've heard about why the change of the commenting system is causing angst comes from YouTubers... this time it is from the viewpoint of Plussers that were glad to not have to see the junk brought into their world by many spammy, nasty YouTubers. Get ready to LOL at this one, and be ready to pause at times to read the text as it moves pretty fast at times. Good Job Eli... you make me laugh! === #fun   #YouTubeHitler   #youtubecomments   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9thBy2H-Avw

Why NSA's war on terror is more than just a 'neat' hacking game http://gu.com/p/3k82z http://gu.com/p/3k82z

BBC Radio 3: Composer of the Week, Bill Evans #FT Coming up this week (via Arthur Mee) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03h3nx0

Reflection 10 years on: The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies #FT #peakoil http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/1939341-ten-years-after# 10 years on from initial publication Richard Heinberg looks back. Really influential book for me (ecology, 'money', energy/work, growth) and this essay is wise and timely. Peakoil as a term has been deliberately undermined/misinterpreted over the past decade however our current economic problems were predicted & explained by 'peakists' joining the dots between energy costs & economic activity. This quote on growth is telling: "Resistance to the idea of peak oil has also come from mainstream economists. That’s because (as The Party’s Over explained on pages 169-172) peak oil effectively means the end of economic growth as we knew it during the 20th century. Growth is sacred to most economists: even credentialed insiders (economists like Jeff Rubin or investment fund managers like Jeremy Grantham) w...

The packet capture shown in these new NSA slides shows internal database replication traffic for the anti-hacking system I worked on for over two years. Specifically, it shows a database recording a user login as part of this system: http://googleblog.blogspot.ch/2013/02/an-update-on-our-war-against-account.html Recently Brandon Downey, a colleague of mine on the Google security team, said (after the usual disclaimers about being personal opinions and not speaking for the firm which I repeat here) - "fuck these guys": https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbDWGG I now join him in issuing a giant Fuck You to the people who made these slides. I am not American, I am a Brit, but it's no different - GCHQ turns out to be even worse than the NSA. We designed this system to keep criminals out . There's no ambiguity here. The warrant system with skeptical judges, paths for appeal, and rules of evidence was built from centuries of hard won experience. When i...

wink wink....

Wagamama York http://goo.gl/maps/Pv6vz http://goo.gl/maps/Pv6vz

This has now hit the Play Streaming service. Giving it a play.  Should I feel guilty for not buying the physical thing?  I feel it's a bit of a rip-off actually - repackaging the same album again. I'm happy to stream these extras (effectively out-takes/B-sides) . If they become essential listening then I may pick up the CD/pack. (or maybe just add it to an xmas list). https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKqVBJCnOsoxvCThNpfVjKqtXhVoiNcdxnMsBu3_g8Pg4Z3nzJpK_aN2cwh0p7G3Jxl3RElkyIPHothSWnYr1CkArd7UPE6rwE21mWd5NN77H4ai8Yo%3D

This is why you don't interrupt someone who is programming. http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer

Worth a watch Charlie Adams (& Bill Adams ) Stephen Fry explains the history of computer thinking and the revolution of utility in cloud computing in this 5 minute animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9LK6EtxzgM#t=12

Photos from Bob's Birthday party at Catterick Golf Club.

Love "Sports Balls Replaced With Cats" :) http://www.sportballsreplacedwithcats.com/ #Caturday

Can't wait for your Nexus 5 to arrive? No problem. Here's how I got KitKat on my Nexus 4 pretty easily. #lol #sooriginal

*Read this! #googlewinseverything (part 1)' #FT Great read (nice spot David E. Anderson). Whilst we should be wary of any centralisation of power/wealth, Google's record (outcomes, relative openness/transparency) to date makes them more trustworthy than any of their peers (tech, comms, media) & certainly more than our (lying, secretive, under-performing) governments. UPDATE: A good reacton piece to the first article: Will Google Win Everything? Musings on whether its ‘winner takes all’ and who’s in the fight https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/22926442ccd2 http://blog.launch.co/blog/googlewinseverything-part-1.html

Nice Brian Eno Q&A on new book collecting his visual art #FT http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/q-a-brian-eno-on-the-best-use-of-a-television-why-art-students-make-good-pop-stars-and-the-meaning-of-visual-music/?_r=0

Can a follow-up to Myst find its place in the 21st century? http://bit.ly/1aZmpzM

Transparency is key.