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Groovy game

I like this. If you’re naughty, you can skip the queue via digg.

I don’t understand this

A number of web companies are teaming up to create a database of child porn images, which they claim will be used to monitor for child porn being distributed around their networks, in much the same way antivirus companies keep virus databases, and antispam companies keep corpuses. (more…)

10 people who don’t matter

I’d imagine that this Business 2.0 story is doing the rounds a lot faster than it’s daddy, “The 50 people who matter now”. We do like to see people dissed, particularly when one of them is Microsoft’s head psycho Steve Ballmer. Odd to see him in the company of Linus Torvalds and Rob Malda though!

Can Irish bloggers pull off Exley?

So to speak. I’ve had this as a draft since the “Can Labour pull off innovation” item, but I never got around to actually writing it. In basic terms though, I think Exley will do his best to leverage the Irish blogging community – since just blogging on behalf of Rabbitte won’t be innovative enough – in the same way ye all do, pulling each other up by the bootstraps; and I’m wondering how the Irish blogging community will respond to that. (more…)

Welcome to the CIA

Open letter from a former CIA case officer to incoming Director Michael Hayden. Sensible, well put, yet bizarre.

Garrett Jones is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He retired in 1997 and now lives in the northwestern United States. CIA Statement: “This material has been reviewed by the CIA. That review neither constitutes CIA authentication of information nor implies CIA endorsement of the author’s views.”