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links for 2009-04-14
Already 3,300 Reservations for the BlueCar EV by Pininfarina and Bolloré : TreeHugger Looks quite cool for getting around town. (tags: environment design green power travel car)
links for 2009-04-13
CurrentCost CC128 – Battery Pack « Shane Duffy Powering your CC128 by battery. I wonder how long it lasts, though. (tags: currentcost power energy home) The Omni Group – OmniGraphSketcher Great looking graphing app from Omni – handy for all … Continue reading
links for 2009-04-12
Schneier on Security: Identifying People using Anonymous Social Networking Data Clever – combining public data from various social networking sites to establish the identity of supposedly anonymous individuals. (tags: internet security identity privacy research surveillance statistics socialnetworking)
links for 2009-04-10
Statebook Great spoof site by the ORG folks, highlighting quite how much data the UK government is mining. (tags: privacy government politics uk data rights funny) http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/ Pretty cool visualisations of OECD data (tags: visualization statistics maps economics reference tools … Continue reading
Flights for lights
Tesco has for some time allowed people to convert Clubcard points into Airmiles, so on one hand, this story seems a bit of a non-event… Except for the fact Tesco are actively suggesting people convert the bonus miles earned when … Continue reading
links for 2009-04-08
Ian Tomlinson death: Guardian video reveals police attack on man who died at G20 protest | UK news | guardian.co.uk (tags: politics guardian uk police crime g20)
links for 2009-04-07
What to Fear A great article on what you should be scared of. Hint: Being scared of terrorists makes you an idiot. (tags: politics security health schneier statistics)
links for 2009-04-05
Homophobia: the forgotten hate crime – Crime, UK – The Independent 'A survey by Stonewall, the gay rights charity, published last year found that one in five gay people had been the victim of a hate crime in the last … Continue reading
Global Successes & British failures?
Whilst the news has been focused on the financial aspects of the G20 summit of late, there’s also been a good scattering of news on international environmental issues. There seems now to be a general acceptance that we’re rapidly approaching, … Continue reading
Zombie power
In a thrilling final installment in my current (no pun intended) obsession with power consumption at home, I took some time to go around the house switching things off and on to get an idea of where power is still … Continue reading