links for 2008-09-29

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UK residents, get snapping! The Open Rights Group and No2ID are asking people to take pictures of stuff they see in their day-to-day lives that embodies the surveillance society the UK is turning into. In two week's time, in a London location TBC, we'll be mosaicing the photos live to make a bigger picture – a picture that shows where incremental infringements of our privacy will eventually lead.

The latest from James Cridland on developments in higher-quality BBC audio streaming.

I do think that Sarah Palin might be a bit of a liability, to be honest. Did you see her with Charlie Gibson the other day? When he asked her about the "Bush Doctrine?" She looked like she'd just had sap put up her anus and filled with two-dozen Vietnamese red pincher ants. It is good that she's telegenic, though. Unlike John McCain who, if I recall, is covered in deep blue mallet-shaped bruises all up and down the left side of his body, with a massively swollen eye, and more than a few broken teeth. Right John?

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