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So, farewell then, Margaret Thatcher
I recently went up to Edinburgh for a week and a bit, mainly for the Maker Faire. It was a good trip, nicely balanced between being social and being alone and productive, in the company of an extremely fluffy and affectionate but profoundly deranged cat. I didn't get to see a lot of people I would have liked, though, largely because I barely did ( Read more... ) -
Notes on Visiting Waterstones in the West End
- I want all the books.
- I want time to read all the books.
- I am pleased to see that God Bless You, Dr Kevorkian has been released with a foreword by Neil Gaiman and is in the Staff Choices bit, but dismayed that people think it's okay to charge eight pounds for a book that is less than a hundred pages long, even with foreword, list of personages and so ( Read more... )
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Tame the Giant Vampire Squid
My brother made a new animation, for the New Economics Foundation (nef). It perhaps lacks the subtlety of some of his earlier work, but it's well done and I think it makes a good point concerning banks, money and public finances...
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Climate Camp
I wrote a thing about Climate Camp here: http://oolong.co.uk/oo/climate-camp
I think I'll post more about it later. I need to articulate my thoughts about non-violence a lot more clearly... -
Finding communities on LJ
So um there's probably a London community on here, isn't there? Can anyone point me to it? There seems to be only a search function to find people-and-communities, and I can't be arsed wading through pages and pages of users who somehow have something to do with London to find an actual community for it ( Read more... ) -
Exciting things
- I'm making a giant puppet for Beltane this year. I've been wanting to get into making puppets for ages, and this is a great opportunity to do it. It's also a relatively low-time-commitment way to stay involved with Beltane.
- I've got a new housemate, the girlfriend of one of my existing housemates, with a van. Indirectly this has made it possible to ( Read more... )
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Open letter to Google
Dear Google,
I've long been a fan of the things you do, and thought that overwhelmingly you manage to live up to that 'Don't Be Evil' mission statement.
However I'm really very unhappy about the privacy implications of the way you've launched Google Buzz. If you're going to automatically generate a list of contacts based on who I talk to, you ( Read more... )
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