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• 2010-05-31: David Cameron's letter to government departments on opening up data.
• 2010-05-31: China bans the use of evidence obtained under torture. (America and Britain should too.)
• 2010-05-31: How long is the optimal copyright term?
• 2010-05-31: How big would the public domain be without copyright term extensions?
• 2010-05-31: Francis Maude outlines the coalition's plans for government data publication.
• 2010-05-31: Summary of development plans for Ubuntu 10.10.
• 2010-05-31: Big media has trouble collecting Pirate Bay fines.
• 2010-05-31: Microsoft quietly patches some security vulnerabilities without identifying them.
• 2010-05-31: PortLand source code released - a data centre networking protocol.
• 2010-05-31: The resurgence of parallel computing research after a quarter century of neglect.
• 2010-05-31: Stimulus surprise: companies retrench when government spends.
• 2010-05-31: The Innovator's Dilemma: insights from the hard disk drive industry.
• 2010-05-27: Track the progress of the libel reform bill here.
• 2010-05-27: Caroline Lucas uses her maiden speech to attack Trafigura.
• 2010-05-27: The Independent loves Caroline Lucas.
• 2010-05-27: The royal appetite for secrecy can only invite scandal.
• 2010-05-27: The only weapons we have [in programming] are simplicity and convention.
• 2010-05-27: Documentation and code for manipulating Microsoft Outlook .pst files.
• 2010-05-27: Trafigura goes on trial next week in Amsterdam – will the UK media dare to report it?
• 2010-05-27: Compilers and Compiler Generators, by P.D. Terry.
• 2010-05-27: Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth.
• 2010-05-27: Julian Huppert's Early Day Motion on repeal of the nasty bits of the Digital Economy Act.
• 2010-05-27: Julian Huppert's maiden speech.
• 2010-05-26: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal. (BMJ)
• 2010-05-26: Dyson Air Multiplier fans and balloons. (YouTube)
• 2010-05-26: Johann Hari on Heavy Metal Muslims and Country and Western lefties.
• 2010-05-25: The Real Time Club - the oldest IT dining club.
• 2010-05-25: UNIX Tips for Mac OS X.
• 2010-05-25: DJB on DNSSEC.
• 2010-05-25: A programmers' wedding cake.
• 2010-05-25: Google will not be able to index stories behind The Times' paywall.
• 2010-05-25: Announcing the iPad XL - the power to run flash!
• 2010-05-24: Patent claim halts stem cell research into childhood brain diseases.
• 2010-05-24: 4K sector drives and Linux.
• 2010-05-24: Apple will soon be worth more than Microsoft.
• 2010-05-24: Julian Todd complains about funding for open democracy in the UK.
• 2010-05-24: Busting frame busting: a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities at popular sites.
• 2010-05-24: Daily Mail shows no respect for copyright in pictures.
• 2010-05-24: Michael Geist's fair copyright proposals for Canada.
• 2010-05-24: Anthony Lester QC, architect of the Human Rights Act, introduces libel reform bill in the House of Lords.
• 2010-05-24: Practical examples of siphons at work.
• 2010-05-24: How bells are rung in Bologna.
• 2010-05-24: Graphs of DNS RFC relationships.
• 2010-05-24: English judge complains at length about bad ECJ trademark ruling.
• 2010-05-23: Iteratees step-by-step.
• 2010-05-23: Brian Deer on the end of the Wakefield MMR enquiry.
• 2010-05-23: giffgaff - The people-powered PAYG mobile phone network.
• 2010-05-22: Why Verisign is leaving the X.509 business.
• 2010-05-22: Rumours of safety arguments between BP and Schlumberger on the Deepwater Horizon.
• 2010-05-22: Why to use the term "preferential voting" when campaigning for electoral reform.
• 2010-05-22: Bottom-up innovation will save us says Matt Ridley. (Unless IP squashes it?)
• 2010-05-22: David Davies MP thinks torture is a good thing.
• 2010-05-22: How the coalition deal was negotiated.
• 2010-05-21: Creating a Solaris IPS repository and adding your first package.
• 2010-05-21: "Email and bacon! This car has everything ..."
• 2010-05-21: Chocolate filled with Marmite!?!
• 2010-05-21: A Windows 3.1 clone running in your browser.
• 2010-05-21: Lightspark: Flash player for Linux accelerated with LLVM and GLSL.
• 2010-05-21: Cameron/Clegg (7)
• 2010-05-21: Superficially improving Google Reader.
• 2010-05-21: Wenlock and Mandeville welcome you to London 2012.
• 2010-05-20: Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth.
• 2010-05-20: A look at Lua 5.2.0-work3.
• 2010-05-20: Richard Feynman on judging (text)books by their covers.
• 2010-05-20: In order to complain to the TPS about phone spam, you must let them give the spammer your postal and email addresses.
• 2010-05-20: Australian customs officers can now search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography.
• 2010-05-19: You can do something about street harassment.
• 2010-05-19: How to prevent browser history sniffing.
• 2010-05-19: Mapping the demographics of American English with Twitter.
• 2010-05-19: The Associated Press's most popular stories are the fact-checking nonsense-debunking ones.
• 2010-05-19: AAAS Science Magazine interview with Julian Huppert MP.
• 2010-05-19: Verisign to concentrate on DNS registry business after selling X.509 business to Symantec.
• 2010-05-19: Symantec to buy Verisign's X.509 business.
• 2010-05-19: How to sniff the contents of a web browser's history.
• 2010-05-19: Warning signs in experimental design and interpretation.
• 2010-05-19: List of Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of possessing terrorist Casio watches.
• 2010-05-19: A great interview with Ben Goldacre about his philosophy.
• 2010-05-19: Interviews with Evan Harris and Julian Huppert.
• 2010-05-19: Harmful drinks in America - astonishing quantities of sugar.
• 2010-05-19: Writing systems and calligraphy of the world.
• 2010-05-19: Craig Murray debunks the coalition's first islamophobic terror scare.
• 2010-05-19: Experimental security analysis of a modern automobile.
• 2010-05-19: Lesbian Iranian film-maker denied asylum in Britain.
• 2010-05-18: Heather Brooke on CCTV.
• 2010-05-18: Monsanto's GM cotton and the increasing suicide rate amongst Indian farmers.
• 2010-05-18: Resistance to anti-piracy law by Swedish ISPs makes it harder to tackle serious criminals.
• 2010-05-18: The Reed Research Reactor is the only nuclear reactor operated primarily by undergraduates.
• 2010-05-18: DNSSEC in the root zone delayed two weeks.
• 2010-05-18: Proportion of women parliamentary candidates in each party.
• 2010-05-18: Kent police and the CPS think a private online chat is an obscene publication.
• 2010-05-18: Civil service chiefs made formal protests at Labour's excessive spending in their final months.
• 2010-05-18: Testing salted coffee with Tim Wendelboe.
• 2010-05-18: The lack of IP law enforcement in Spain - an entrenched culture of sharing.
• 2010-05-18: Mil-Spec chocolate chip cookies.
• 2010-05-18: Lynne Featherstone supports John Bercow as Speaker.
• 2010-05-18: On Liberal Conservatism.
• 2010-05-17: Electoral dysfunction: why democracy is always unfair.
• 2010-05-17: The Right Tool - a survey to find out how programmers pick languages.
• 2010-05-17: James K. Galbraith: Why the 'experts' failed to see how financial fraud collapsed the economy.
• 2010-05-17: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler LLVM back-end.
• 2010-05-17: Liam Byrne's handover letter to David Laws says Labour spent all the money, as if it were a joke.
• 2010-05-17: Forget about Goldman Sachs: the entire economy is built on fraud.
• 2010-05-17: Labour's record on civil liberties alienated its core supporters and drove voters to the Liberal Democrats.
• 2010-05-17: Skeptic Top Trumps.
• 2010-05-17: Will Aaron Sorkin's Zuckerberg biopic damage Facebook's reputation even more?
• 2010-05-17: Cambridge's response to the Browne review of higher education funding and student finance.
• 2010-05-17: Cameron/Clegg (6)
• 2010-05-17: Australia retaliates against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
• 2010-05-17: IP as censorship: a growing library of banned books.
• 2010-05-17: Jack o' Kent was a folk hero in the borderland of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire.
• 2010-05-17: How (not) to lobby a parliamentary candidate.
• 2010-05-16: The Orwell Prize blog shortlist.
• 2010-05-16: The electoral politics of the LibDem-Conservative coalition, according to Pippa Norris.
• 2010-05-16: Doc Searls on Steve Jobs, 1997 - right on the mark.
• 2010-05-16: Greed all about it - Radio 4 Friday play about Murdoch's move to Wapping.
• 2010-05-16: Tories ditched policies as fast as they listed them: 'Cameron wanted to bury party Right,' say Lib Dems.
• 2010-05-16: Labour hid ‘scorched earth' debts worth billions.
• 2010-05-16: BMA votes to end NHS funding for homoeopathy.
• 2010-05-16: Henry Porter says the voices of liberty have triumphed and Britain is better for it
• 2010-05-16: Leaked memo reveals what Whitehall really thinks of its new masters.
• 2010-05-15: Typographical problems with the iPad.
• 2010-05-15: Why Peter Serafinowicz steals movies ... even ones he is in.
• 2010-05-15: How to design a popular programming language.
• 2010-05-14: Tell the Electoral Commission about any problems you had with voting.
• 2010-05-14: Some pages from Willard Cope Brinton's 1939 book Graphic Presentation.
• 2010-05-14: Will the civil service scupper the Freedom Bill?
• 2010-05-14: Apple responds to Adobe's "We ♥ Apple" advertisement.
• 2010-05-14: Stop slutting up our girls.
• 2010-05-14: UK Government Twitter strategy.
• 2010-05-13: Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Transport, promises to "end the war on motorists".
• 2010-05-13: Cameron/Clegg (5)
• 2010-05-13: "Psychic" Joe Power and the two-man mob.
• 2010-05-13: Cameron/Clegg (4) [only slightly slashy]
• 2010-05-13: Police threaten and handcuff man in his home because of his silly Cameron poster.
• 2010-05-12: Cameron/Glegg (3)
• 2010-05-12: Henry Porter on the coalition's plans for civil liberties.
• 2010-05-12: Cameron/Clegg (2)
• 2010-05-12: ComRes says flakier voters failed to turn up and vote LibDem as expected.
• 2010-05-12: Channel 4 compares Tory and LibDem policies before and after the coalition.
• 2010-05-12: Open WiFi banned in Germany.
• 2010-05-12: The Spectator's view of the coalition.
• 2010-05-12: The impact of the fiscal stimulus on economic growth.
• 2010-05-12: Liberty responds to the Con/LibDem coalition agreement.
• 2010-05-12: Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition agreements.
• 2010-05-12: HMG will act on 10:10 campaign to cut CO2 emissions by 10% within a year.
• 2010-05-12: Ultrasound reveals breastfeeding mechanics.
• 2010-05-12: Cameron/Clegg.
• 2010-05-11: Eight websites you need to stop building.
• 2010-05-11: High Court rules that software liability disclaimers are unfair and unenforcable.
• 2010-05-11: Ten tips for coping with lots of rough nights.
• 2010-05-11: UK party policy Venn diagram.
• 2010-05-11: Yale delays switch to GMail owing to data ownership concerns.
• 2010-05-11: UC Davis scraps GMail pilot because of privacy concerns.
• 2010-05-10: Heather Brooke on the lack of accountability and oversight of UK election officials.
• 2010-05-10: Losing the fight against AIDS in Africa.
• 2010-05-10: Inspired by XKCD...
• 2010-05-10: Welcome to the post-meritocratic age - the increasing proportion of MPs from independent schools.
• 2010-05-10: The origin of HTML's blink tag.
• 2010-05-10: Tories and LibDems want to cancel the one-sided extradition treaty with the USA.
• 2010-05-10: Unprecedented rain in the high arctic in April.
• 2010-05-09: Britain's experience of electoral systems, published by the Electoral Reform Society, Apr. 2007.
• 2010-05-09: The experience of new voting systems in the United Kingdom since 1997, presented to Parliament by the Justice Secretary, Jan. 2008.
• 2010-05-09: Report of the independent commission on the voting system, presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, Oct. 1998.
• 2010-05-09: Where no woman has gone before - a map of women in parliament.
• 2010-05-09: Tories re-nationalise the London Underground.
• 2010-05-09: Clegg and Cameron explain the state of the negotiations to their parties.
• 2010-05-09: The 14-year-old voter tells his story. (ace!)
• 2010-05-09: HengeDocks - a well-designed docking station for unibody MacBooks.
• 2010-05-09: SecondBar and BetterTouchTool - Mac OS X user interface tweaks.
• 2010-05-09: An in-depth tutorial on Perl autovivification.
• 2010-05-06: Portillo tells Ed Balls how to lose.
• 2010-05-06: Robert Mugabe supports the Conservative party.
• 2010-05-06: What happened to the Wall Street Journal when Rupert Murdoch took over.
• 2010-05-06: HP printer cartridges are region-coded - WTF!
• 2010-05-05: A new record for Apple - iPad fastest product to reach $1 billion revenue?
• 2010-05-05: Johann Hari takes you on a tour of Cameron Land.
• 2010-05-05: The people's flag is palest pink: it's not as red as people think.
• 2010-05-05: The WhoShouldYouVoteFor.com election night party kit.
• 2010-05-05: A personal account of the smallpox outbreak in Bradford in 1962.
• 2010-05-05: The Tory plan for a hung parliament.
• 2010-05-05: The Soviet solution: nuke the gushing oil well.
• 2010-05-04: The Single Transferable Vote in action in the Republic of Ireland.
• 2010-05-04: Some details of LuaJIT's intermediate representation.
• 2010-05-04: The IBM film Powers of Ten.
• 2010-05-04: The scale of the universe - Powers of Ten as a flash app.
• 2010-05-04: Cameron does not understand proportional representation.
• 2010-05-04: File-sharers are content industry's best customers.
• 2010-05-04: FiveThirtyEight predicts Lib/Lab coalition would not have a majority - neither would the Tories.
• 2010-05-04: BNP uses ballot paper aliases to fool voters.
• 2010-05-04: What's in a name? - Pirate Party UK.
• 2010-05-04: Anti-brothel law puts prostitutes at risk. (ps. no relation!)
• 2010-05-04: Cameron to celebrate victory with Bullingdon-style trashing of UK.
• 2010-05-04: The utter failure of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project.
• 2010-05-03: Fear let the Labour Party abandon everything it stood for.
• 2010-05-03: MPEG-LA creates patent holding company to sue its own patent contributors. WTF.
• 2010-05-03: A better graph of support for Labour+Conservative vs LibDem bs others over the last 25 years.
• 2010-05-03: Automatic permanent background SSH tunnels - howto for unix, mac, windows.
• 2010-05-03: Julian Huppert says why he is against the Digital Economy Act.
• 2010-05-03: How to establish a pub's Mank Rating.
• 2010-05-03: Young adults ask, why isn't our parents' generation paying for us?
• 2010-05-03: Hung parliament guaranteed by Labour and Conservative both declining over more than 20 years.
• 2010-05-02: "When blowflies fight over a pile of elephant shit, their pecking order is a more elegant protocol than ICCCM."
• 2010-05-02: If only Arizona were the real problem - the Tea Party takeover of the Republican Party.
• 2010-05-02: Is Clegg throwing away his best cards?
• 2010-05-02: Why even strict vegans should consider eating oysters by the boatload.
• 2010-05-02: You owe licence fees to the MPEG-LA for anything you film with a video camera.
• 2010-05-02: The scary evangelical Christian tendency in the Conservative party.
• 2010-05-02: Quack in a Box: a game of medical malpractice.
• 2010-05-01: Michael Specter's TED talk on the danger of science denialism.
• 2010-05-01: Evan Harris argues against the Tories' extra pocket money for married couples.
• 2010-05-01: Full body scanners are a useless waste of money, says Israeli airport security expert.
• 2010-05-01: Wind power is starting to reduce the price of electricity.
• 2010-05-01: Tim Harford on electoral reform and Arrow's theorem.
• 2010-05-01: Political parties should be banned from handling postal vote applications.
• 2010-05-01: The public electoral register is a good defence against electoral fraud.
• 2010-05-01: A new init(8) called systemd.