Courtesy of the Pirate Party UK we cane across this today, an image that succinctly demonstrates the dystopian future in store for all UK internet users should Mandleson get his way with the Digital Economy Bill. Click the image for a larger view, then let us know what you think in the comments.

As you can all see we’ve been changing the layout of the site a little bit to try and make the site a little less cluttered, a little more navigable and to swap some features in and out so we hope you approve. The first things you’ll notice are the banner change up at the [...]

Shocking news on the BBC today courtesy of security firm Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton, a web-monitoring service for parents. It turns out that teenagers use the Internet to search for porn! I know I know, we had no idea either. Shocking but funny stuff none the less. Up at the top of the search results recorded by [...]

” Patient TN was, by his own account, completely blind. Two consecutive strokes had destroyed the visual cortex of his brain, and consequently, his ability to see. His first stroke had injured only one hemisphere of his visual cortex. About five weeks later, a second stroke damaged the other hemisphere. An assessment of his brain [...]

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This weekend will see the latest global protest by the internet group Anonymous against the dangerous cult of Scientology. Operation Sea Aarrrgh 2: Cruise Control is the latest in a series of protests Anonymous has organized against the Church of Scientology in its continuing mission to educate the public about the criminal behavior and unethical [...]

Within the next few days, some applications and mashups based on the Twitter API may behave unpredictably or even crash – at least that’s the warning given by Canadian software company WhereCloud’s Twitpocalypse website. This impending “Twitpocalypse,” much like the famous Y2K bug of 2000, is based on a data processing limitation. Every tweet in [...]

I don’t normally post stories about my life, this isn’t that type of blog but today is different and today’s story is tragic. As some of you may remember, on the day we relaunched this site the first post referenced the news that my pet tortoise, Hermes had been stolen overnight. Well following on from [...]

Prisons in the only country in the EU with legalised drug use are now facing the risk of closure because there just aren’t enough criminals! With 14,000 spaces but only 12,000 criminals to house the massive surplus in housing is costing the Dutch government too much to keep open. This overcapacity is a direct result [...]