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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Feeling all “D’oh”

by Frank Paynter on December 28, 2005

"D’oh"

I misdialed this afternoon and was rewarded by a talk with Doc Searls. Doc has some window seat photos of Madison up on FlickR and I could see our place from the high resolution shots. The barn roof shows clearly in a couple of them, and the farm is clearly visible west of the Waubesa marsh.

After that I called Dean to talk about taking a couple of comments (his and mine) down in our recent "Miracle of the Latkes" exchange (that’s pronounced "latkuhs" according to Dean). Now I’ve decided to leave them up, but Dean cuts pretty close to the bone in identifying rural Amurican anti-semitic bullshit, and I have a hard time with satire around these issues. "D’oh…"

Anyone want to hum a few bars of "Feelings" with me?

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“neo-Benthamites”

by Frank Paynter on December 28, 2005

"Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years."

Charlie Stross, for one, is a bit upset about this.

They’re waving the Terrorism bloody shirt around a lot, seemingly in ignorance of the fact that the July 7th bombers did their stuff on public transport. But that’s about par for the level of logic I’m coming to expect from our public servants these days. It seems to be a case of "if something is possible it must be done" in respect of any and all possible surveillance technologies. Presumably because of a misplaced neo-Benthamite trust in the panopticon …