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also picked up the Berlitz French Learning System software at the Apple Store; should brush up before my next visit to Paris (4h ago)
Just picked up one of those £15 stylophones Momus mentioned. (7h ago)
@cos: yes, I read it a month or so ago. (11h ago)
Just ordered from Amazon: Ben Frost - "Theory of Machines", Animal Collective - "Water Curses", Julian Cope - "Krautrocksampler". (11h ago)
Wiping/restoring my iPod, thanks to database fragility. Thank you, Apple and RIAA. My next MP3 player won't be an Apple. (11h ago)
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2007/5/17
Blog of the day: Architectures Of Control . Written by an industrial designer, it looks at how products or systems are designed to control the behaviour of their users, explicitly or implicitly. It has posts covering2006/5/17
Charlie Stross has written up a future history of the British national identity card system, circa 2016 : The National ID Register has been implemented, and (as No2ID are currently predicting) it was a train-wreck. Large2003/5/16
Rational Ministries could well be the next Time Cube . He goes on about communism (in a quasi-religious sort of way, mixed in with bits of Wagnerian Viking mysticism), LSD, sex and psychiatric medication, expounds