September 2009
10 posts
Best Phishing Scam Ever
Dear Mr. Sir, REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990...
Green Gauge 21 Report →
Enough to make a high speed rail geek like myself weep with joy, this, along with the Maglev proposal, is by far the most ambitious and interesting for HSR in the UK. While I am supportive of any initiative to get it going frankly a London-Birmingham route by 2025 is totally inadequate. Traveling in this country is already nightmare; by then it will be an outright impossibility. Green gauge 21...
Brixton Gets It's Own Currency →
Brixton is getting it’s own micro-currency that can be used only in retail outlets in the area. Part of a scheme to support local business, the idea is brilliant, and also slightly alarming. Brilliant because it suggests that the multiple fissures in the London’s geography are finally etching themselves into substantial local differences. Soon a broken London will consist of small,...
Animal Spirits: A Beastiary of the Commons →
Sounds interesting: “After a decade of digital fetishism, the spectres of the financial and energy crisis have also affected new media culture and brought into question the autonomy of networks. Yet activism and the art world still celebrate Creative Commons and the ‘creative cities’ as the new ideals for the Internet generation. Unmasking the animal spirits of the commons, Matteo...
