Digitalia Alasdair’s workblog and linkdump

Posted
6 March 2007 @ 7pm

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links for 2007-03-06

  • Chris Lightfoot dies unexpectedly. You’ve never heard of him, have you? If you live in the UK, it’s not much of a stretch to say that he was responsible for some of the biggest changes to the nature of our democracy in the last 20 years.
  • This is one of the reasons why I watch DVDs on my computer, with a bit of software that allows me to skip anything, regardless of what the DVD manufacturer wants - I paid for it exactly because I wanted to control how I experience the fucking thing…
    (tags: piracy)
  • Software that claims to automatically do all those things proretouchers do to people’s portraits, for that airbrushed magazine-cover look. Might be fun to play with, at least, even if that sort of thing winds me up when it’s done for commerical reasons.
    (tags: photography)
  • Ever wondered why you keep seeing headlines about lenient sentencing, or Judges defeating Charles Clarke’s attempts to turn us into a police state? Here’s a good summary of how it all works, from one of the men at the top.
    (tags: law)

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RIP: Chris Lightfoot links for 2007-03-07