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Today’s links are mostly about SOPA / PIPA. Who knows where it’ll all end up, but I guess we’ll know sooner or later whether the internet will be censored by the US government. Of course, that’s what everybody’s talking about, but it’s not necessarily the most important bit of legislation that’s under consideration. Have a read of Elsevier = Evil to get an earful.

With the PhD coming to a close, I suppose I’m wondering what’s next. In that vein, I had a nightmare that I went to work for Google, and it was just like high-school, with all of the cliques and cool kids and snobbery. How ironic that this article should show up to confirm that it would, indeed, be a nightmare: What It’s Really Like to Work at Google.

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Hope you all had a good holiday, and are ready to get back to whatever it is you’re up to. 7 days from now I’ll have had my viva and will be contemplating revision, most likely.

Not much in the links these past few weeks – it appears that the only thing going, really, has been SOPA. I wonder if anybody’s making money off of the circus that is the American Legislative System. Really: they’re such a farce with this, it’s unbelievable. Of course, that seems to be an underlying theme in US Politics these days.

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There aren’t many happy links this week, unfortunately. Perhaps I need to slow down on paying attention to the censorship news, and the copyright / patent news. Either that or I’m going to have to rename this section “dark links” rather than just “links.” I need to add some more positive technology feeds to my reader, and perhaps drop a few of those which are focused on security, information law, and hacktivisim. I don’t know, though, because those areas are of interest to me, and they’re also very important not only to me but to the world as a whole. Will give it some thought. Meanwhile, here’re your links for the week.

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Well, it’s been a few weeks since the last batch of links. I hope that you’ve all got quite a bit of time to read through these … but, if not, well, have a look through the various sections and pick the issue of your interest. If I had to pick a “top 10” for you to read right this minite, though, I’d probably choose these (not in any order):

  1. TSA Screener Finds Blogger’s Vibrator, Orders Her to ‘Get Freak On’
  2. Image Fulgurator: add messages on pictures taken by the others
  3. Free FreeBieber.org! Fight for the Future Faces Bogus Legal Threats
  4. Disney Masculinity
  5. Taxi Driver Mummified Like Pharaohs
  6. OWS’s Beef: Wall Street Isn’t Winning — It’s Cheating
  7. Blackberry Service Disruption Linked to Dramatic Fall in Traffic Accidents
  8. It’s Official: To Protect Baby’s Brain, Turn Off TV
  9. Cell Phones: Why You Can’t Hear Me Now
  10. University Adopts Predictive Technology

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The world of intellectual property is all in a swivet about the fact that the U.S. has decided to renovate its copyright and patent law … and everybody’s wondering what it really means. Good luck with that, folks: the lawyers think that it will take about ten years before any real change will be felt … and you can still patent the process for making a snowman. Yup: IP law is still broken in the U.S. Enjoy it. After all, that’s half a trillion dollars going to people who don’t do anything useful to the world whatsoever.

All sorts of interesting things in today’s links. If there’s something I’m missing, let me know and I’ll pay attention to it and see what I can dig up.

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We finally have broadband installed in our new home … mostly. It involves a LAN cable strung up the well of the stairway to a WiFi hotspot, so that we can have coverage upstairs, because there’s only a single phone port in the house which works with DSL. I thought about rewiring that box, as there are regular phone lines running everywhere, but when I opened the box up … well, there are simply too many wires, and it was taking too much of a risk compared to running some cable. Sad, to be so defeated by analog technology. It’s also sad how many posts have been written explaining just how to wire that one junction box!

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Another batch of links for your enjoyment. It’s been awhile since I’ve put these out – mostly that’s because internet access has been a bit difficult since the move. We don’t even have a land-line at the moment. By the time we have a land-line, it’ll have been 2 weeks without phone or internet. Then it’ll be another 2 weeks until Sky gets their act together enough to turn on the DSL. Why should it take a solid month to get such basics activated? If there were another option, Sky would have lost a customer. Anyway. Enjoy the links!

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