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• nyan waits 

  WONDERFUL AndyBooth Permalink
  1:18 pm on 04/26/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 )   

  its ok, we can all go back to bed now, everything else today is worthless

  View Link [nyanwaits.com]

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    crankypage 2:44 pm on 04/26/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Andy is absolutely correct.

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      Kimmo 10:10 pm on 05/04/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Concur

• Cambridge University suspend Ph.D student for two and a half years for peaceful protest 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  5:08 am on 03/15/2012 | NEWS ( 1,051 ), RAGE ( 507 )   

  Cambridge University Cuts Off Nose; Face 'Spited'.

  Owen Holland read a poem. That much is clear. Via a human microphone, he disrupted an debate appearance by the Universities Minister David Willetts. He kept going until Willetts left. No one was hurt. No one was threatened. And then Cambridge decided to suspend Holland for 2.5 years. That’s only a few months short of the Ph.D program itself. In that time, he isn’t allowed onto University property, to talk to his supervisor or use the library. For reading a poem.

  It looks a lot like Cambridge, home of dissenters and protest in centuries past, is trying to show the government how loyal and good it can be. It looks a lot like Mr Holland is simply being made an example of. It looks a lot like bullying.

  View Link [earlymodernjohn.wordpress.com]

• Brilliant lesson on what is actually happening in European 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  7:08 am on 02/24/2012 | NEWS ( 1,051 ), RAGE ( 507 )   

  David McWilliams has long been the boy who cried wolf in Irish economics, the (nearly) lone voice of clarity. Here he takes a look at what’s actually going on in Europe and tries to explain what exactly the Germans are playing at.

  View Link [youtu.be]

• Man who splatted Murdoch says why 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  7:32 am on 07/20/2011  

  Might as well see why he thinks he did it.

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Whole island to time travel 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  12:14 am on 06/29/2011  

  Samoa are jumping into the future. December 30 2011 is no more. The idea is to bring them into closer alinement with their major trading partners New Zealand. The effect is time travel…

  View Link [tvnz.co.nz]

• Look Both Ways 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  12:12 am on 06/27/2011  

  Really rather upsetting, but viral none the less, footage of a police cruiser hitting a bear cub in Tennessee. Remember Bear Cubs, Look Both Ways

  View Link [youtu.be]

• GeoHotz has gone to Facebook, maybe 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  11:44 pm on 06/26/2011  

  PS3 Hacker GeoHotz has presumably given up rap and hacking to work for the Zuckerberg man.

  View Link [kotaku.com]

• Stunningly beautiful recycled house in Chile 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  11:20 am on 05/13/2011  

  I’m bowled over by this place. Its beautiful, inspirational and recycled.

  View Link [archdaily.com]

• But who will find the aliens now? 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  2:35 pm on 04/26/2011  

  Seti Institute, beloved of sci fi writers and fans everywhere is broke, and is having to put its brand new $50mil telescope into hibernation!

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Heads Up Ann Rice Fans 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  10:44 am on 03/30/2011  

  As many people know, Ann Rice is on Facebook. She updates a lot and has many followers. About 20 minutes ago she posted a link with “what do you guys think?”. Well it looks like she’s been hacked, since the link is a fairly nasty virus.

  You have been warned.

  View Link [facebook.com]

• Man gets 2 yrs in jail after selling virtual credits he stole. 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  7:12 am on 03/19/2011  

  Ashley Mitchell broke into Zynga (the douche bags who make Facebook nearly unusable with their copied shit-ware) and stole 400bn credits for their crappy games. He then sold some of them for about €50,000. Despite the credits having no actual value, he’s just been jailed for two years with the prosecution claiming they had the potential value of £7m.

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• British Army buys then pulps every copy of a book critical to their role in Afganistan 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  2:56 am on 03/16/2011  

  This isn’t the first time this has happened, but it still shocks me every time, both at the lengths governments go to suppress ‘vital’ information, and the fact that publishers collaborate with them.

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Japanese earthquake causes world to speed up and the day to get shorter 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  7:16 am on 03/14/2011  

  but only by 1.6 milliseconds

  View Link [nasadaacs.eos.nasa.gov]

• Police at London Fees Protest recorded planning to falsely arrest student 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  7:13 am on 03/14/2011  

  An officer managed to record himself colluding to falsely arrest a protester (20) who had broken through their cordon, and concocting a story as to how he chipped his tooth…

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Bradley Manning ritually humiliated 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  11:45 am on 03/06/2011  

  According to reports in the Grauniad, Bradley Manning is being forced to strip every night in retaliation for making a sarcastic comment. Further publicity win for good ol’US of A

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Julian Assange TM 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  12:56 pm on 02/28/2011  

  Julian has applied to trademark his name. Obviously inspired by the success of the Palin’s attempt… Oh. Should we be reading this in the light of Assanges threat of legal action for copyright violation against the Guardian for sharing the State Department leaks with the New York Times? Is Assange in danger of becoming a massive hypocrite?

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Iranian programmer sentenced to death after his photo uploading software is used in a porn site 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  12:46 am on 02/10/2011  

  Saeed Malekpour is a permenant Canadian resident. Iranian authorities claim that he was running a porn site, his wife claims he simply wrote the picture upload software which was used without his knowledge. He is alleged to have confessed under torture.

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Five arrested in UK linked to Anonymous hackitivism 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  6:53 am on 01/27/2011  

  5 males (obviously) between the ages of 15 and 26 have been arrested in the UK as part of the on going investigation into the ddos attacks of Operation Payback.

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Epic Maker builds own Cathedral from found materials 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  5:31 pm on 12/30/2010  

  I defy anyone to out do the shear scale and folly of Don Justo’s home baked Cathedral. No planning permission, no architectural or engineers drawings and a massive central dome that took over 20 years to build, on his own? Got to be a world beater.

  View Link [bbc.co.uk]

• Life Web Chat with Julian Assange from 1 o’clock British time, on Guardian 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  4:46 am on 12/03/2010  

  from 1 o’clock British time, on Guardian. Suggested questions so far? “how are you still alive?” “how many birds (women) do you hope to pull through this unprecedented notoriety?”

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

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    AndyBooth 6:14 am on 12/03/2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    due to tech difficulties that coinsidentally happened when the chat was due to start, his answers are here:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks

• Shurely Shome Mishtake 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  2:00 pm on 11/16/2010  

  British govt’s response to being forced to pay out to Gitmo survivors is to try for greater secrecy, to avoid future pay outs, rather than to protect their citizens from the security forces.

  View Link [guardian.co.uk]

• Vatican Gags Priest 

  AndyBooth Permalink
  12:01 pm on 11/13/2010  

  Irish Catholic priest Fr Owen O’Sullivan had the gall to suggest that homosexuality was natural. Thank goodness the Vatican has banned him from writing again. Phew!

  View Link [irishtimes.com]