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IRIS Removes Individual Sovereignty
El Reg reports “The Home Office is to install iris scanning technology in major UK airports … The Immigration Service will invite “certain groups of foreign nationals” to join the scheme. To qualify, would-be registrants must have a track record of complying with the UK’s immigration laws.” They’re amusingly calling it the Iris Recognition Immigration…
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Vote!
I voted today, have you?
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PSTN Out, IP In
According to the BBC, BT is planning to ditch the existing PSTN network and have us all using our phones over a wholly IP-based network by 2009. El Reg has further details of the last mile fibre optic trials that will take place in selected exchanges later this year as part of the initial work…
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Nigritude Ultramarine
Nigritude Ultramarine — because Anil told me to. Clearly Nigritude Ultramarine has a lot to offer the world, but I’m sure it won’t be long before George Bush bans it! Ah, playing with SEO, gotta love it. However … as much as I hate to indulge SEO tactics … Nigritude Ultramarine is clearly something we…
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Scottish Blogs Updated
Looks like the Scottish Blogs site been updated. Funny, I was just looking at nyc bloggers and thinking, “we should really have something like that … hang on, didn’t Gordon McLean [who runs Scottish Blogs] say something about setting up our version of that?” Lo and behold, after making a bit of clicky, I was…
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Tear Gas Attack in Glasgow
Looks like while I was up in the Sports Cafe on Sauchiehall St after the Scotlug meeting last night, someone was in Frankensteins on West George Street spraying CS gas around the place. I’ve been there before and it can be pretty packed on the best of nights. If that tear gas had been something…
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Genghis Updates Blog Shocker
In shock news, Genghis has updated his blog, made more than one post in a day, and it finally doesn’t look all grey and stuff! Just thought I’d mention it, because I was quite shocked, I tell you! Yours, Shocked of Chipping Sodbury.
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Pottaaaaaaaaaah …
Erm, what the hell happened to Hermione? When did she start looking all womanly-like? How long until Harry or Ron (or their libidos) notice? Why is she trying to tune her chest onto the frequency for xfm? Why does Ron now look increasingly like Gaz from Supergrass, c. 1996? Photos: BBC NewsMore Harry Potter premiere…
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Hail! Hail! The Celts Are Doubly Here!
Celtic have snagged the Double by beating the Pars 3-1 in the SFA Cup Final — reports: celticfc.net [free registration required], BBC News, Google News UK. After a fright near the end of the first half when Andrius Skerla headed in a lovely ball to the back of the net, and a strange decision to…