by Tom | Aug 19, 2013 | Personal, Reading
The UK detained Glen Greenwald's partner (under the terrorism act: no explanation, no lawyer) while in transit through London to ask him about the NSA revelations. Disgraceful.
by Tom | Aug 18, 2013 | Personal, Reading
A must-read Matt Taibbi on the horrific actions the US government has taken to protect the student loans industry (which is now essentially nationalised). No requirement to disclose full APR, no ability to declare bankruptcy, garnishing disability payments. Horrible,...
by Tom | Aug 18, 2013 | Reading, Science
Helpful to know that the anti-MSG message is based on no real science (everything is damaging in large quantities). Worth reading in full. Thought experiment: if you were offered Kombu salt to finish your dish, would you accept? If you were offered MSG crystals? Same...
by Tom | Aug 16, 2013 | Personal, Reading
If you send a message to an electronic service, the service has to process and often store the message. You might value the processing enough to pay for it, e.g. to scan for spam, allow full-text indexing, back up your local information. If you don’t like what...
by Tom | Aug 14, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Hong Kong launches mass evacuation as Typhoon Utor shuts down region There was no evacuation in HK, only in Hainan and mainland. The HK shut down was standard for the wind speed.
