December 2008
Private firm may track all email and calls →
mogadonia:
jhnbrssndn:
The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.
A cabinet decision to put the management of the multibillion pound database of all UK communications...
2009
2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
2009 has been designated as:
* International Year of Astronomy
* International Year of Natural Fibres
* International Year of Reconciliation
* The Year of the Ox (by the Chinese calendar)
Wikipedia
SONG EVERYONE PRETENDS TO UNDERSTAND IS CHRISTMAS... →
“Hallelujah fan Tom Logan, from London, said: “I do get very emotional when I hear the line ‘she tied you to her kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair’ because that happened to me once.”
Britons becoming ruder because of hectic... →
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and...”
– Mel Brooks (via youwillbeassimilated)
“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and...”
– Steven Wright (via getthefuckoutrightnow/defixiones) (via bcardoso) (via mogadonia)
Bailiffs get power to use force on debtors | Times... →
shadowfirebird:
‘The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables.’
(Via UK Liberty.)
Real-life Mowgli kept alive by cats | Telegraph →
shadowfirebird:
‘Policewoman Alicia Lorena Lindgvist discovered the child by a canal in the Christ King district of the city.
She said: “I was walking and noticed a gang of cats sitting very close together. It is unusual to see so many like that so I went for a closer look and that’s where I saw him. The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking...
mogadonia:
Emilie Simon - Opium (Reblogged from...
