Woody Guthrie at 100: Democracy Now

For all kinds of reasons, I found this far more interesting than I thought I might. It gets somewhat disturbing around the ten minute mark f...

Wavy Scrolling Can You Help?

Update: After all that, my troubles were down to Firefox. I installed Comodo browser as a test, that was OK, so uninstalled Firefox 13 and ...

ACTA est Mort Oui!

ACTA Is DEAD After European Parliament Vote Rick Falkvinge July 4, 2012 Today at 12:56 CET, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA wou...

Caution

I've been on the road an awful lot recently. This is one of the signs they put up to warn you.

US Approves First Take-Home HIV Test

This is good news, I just hope they can get the price down from the guesstimated $60 - £38 that it will retail at. US Approves First Take-Ho...

US Increases Harassment of WikiLeaks, Assange Associates

I have listened to Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum, two of the people featured in the article, on Democracy Now. I shall post this as is a...

The Boundless Hubris of The American Empire: Iceland's MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir

Even in the face of all this US hubris I had to smile. (US) Ambassador Arreaga had been instructed by the US department of justice to give ...

The Facebook Sins of The Sons: Iran Arrests Father For Son's Facebook Posts

Iran seizes father for son's Facebook posts by Jannie Schipper 2 July 2012 An Iranian student in the Netherlands says his satirical post...

Immortality! No Thank You

No matter what life offers you, and I know for millions, if not billions of people, that might mean a quality of life we would not envy, nor...