British journalist Matt Salusbury decided to investigate the information that the London police had gathered on him as part of their intimidation campaign against activists and protestors — the Met spends over GBP9MM/year gathering “intelligence” on nonviolent, noncriminal demonstrators — and discovered a file filled with paranoid notes about his presence at lawful public gatherings. I don’t really understand how or why the Met has become so pants-wettingly scared of peaceful protest.

3D technology is the big thing in entertainment at the moment, especially following the James Cameron movie “Avatar”. However, what is really going to be the big thing about this is 3D in the home, this means new technology being created and made into something usable. This is what Sony and other electrical firms have been doing and so far, it looks very promising. However, this development from Sony is something completely on a different level, check it out and see what you think.

Commissioner von Finckenstein arrogantly dismisses Canadians who are threatened by this ruling as “Internet hogs” and pretends that he hasn’t heard any of the research that shows Canada is badly lagging the rest of the developed world in Internet access, paying far more to get far less than others, despite the enormous public subsidy Canada’s ISPs have received in the form of exclusive rights-of-way and access to taxpayer-built infrastructure. He also purports to know nothing of the existing abusive policies used by Canada’s big ISPs.

I received a nice note from my friend Michelle Wolverton @chelpixie asking me if I would share the new novel from J.C. Hutchins with you today, the day it launches. So, please check out 7th Son — you can check out the PDF of 7th Son: Descent here . Here’s his story: Novel by J.C. Hutchins For two years, J.C. chased publishers the traditional way. Unable to find a literary agent to represent his human cloning thriller — but convinced his novels were worthy of an audience — he took to the “podwaves” in 2006 and released the 7th Son trilogy as free serialized podcast audiobooks.

I saw this Youtube Karaoke video on Boing Boing this morning. Very creative, a great way to burn off stress at the office! ( I hope the boss has a great sense of humor!)