130531

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130530 - http://bit.ly/14db8sm yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Groups warn #TAFTA/#TTIP could weaken consumer laws ‘via the backdoor’ - http://bit.ly/179ZG7p not "could", this is one of its real aims

Code for America's Jennifer Pahlka to Take a Year-Long "Fellowship" as Deputy U.S. CTO - http://bit.ly/13oWLlS probably a good sign

FBI and New Zealand police ordered to return all personal data seized from #Megaupload - http://tnw.co/116ikV7 another defeat for US #NZ

Ugandans Fight for More Time to comply with TRIPS - http://bit.ly/17Cr0vK quite right, too #LDCs #ug

EU moves again on financial disclosure of extractives industries - http://bit.ly/137qJfc great news; UK on wrong side of history again

School sexual abuse protester Ye Haiyan beaten up in her own home - http://bit.ly/1429Q6U awful (v @LetaHong @isaac)#china

NASA Confirms That Curiosity Found An Ancient Martian Stream - http://onforb.es/11sC59l exciting #science

Wheat drops as Japan suspends U.S. imports on modified crops - http://bit.ly/116jrV3 #TPP will make that impossible: wake up, #Japan

Ergonomic advice from the 17th century - http://bit.ly/142bcyn "cutting-edge 17th century advice on penmanship and ergonomics"; lovely

EU Mandate For #TAFTA Leaked: Includes Investor-State Dispute Resolution For Intellectual Monopolies - http://bit.ly/137rTax big, bad news

Open-Source House Building - http://bit.ly/15iaoVT great to see people exploring this (v @slashdot)

Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists - http://bit.ly/142c6er redefining protests as domestic terrorism

A 22-Year-Old Woman Is About to Die for the Sake of a Fetus With No Chance of Survival - http://bit.ly/15iblO0 El Salvador's barbarism

Developing a unified rule for openness: Interview with Alek Tarkowski - http://bit.ly/14dlQiu exciting moves in #Poland; great interview

Gallery of Honour competition to spread free knowledge in #Russia - http://bit.ly/18DeiK9 great

Vrijschrift wijst mandaat voor onderhandelingen met Verenigde Staten over handelsverdrag af - http://bit.ly/15nXTHK bad stuff #TAFTA/#TTIP

Internet pornography: never again - http://bit.ly/116NBaF sad to see this ignorant, kneejerk reaction from @guardian, a new low for them

Spies need more oversight, not new powers - http://bit.ly/16vSmDq thoughtful, knowledgeable analysis #surveillance

MI5 failures over Woolwich probably 'misjudgement' not lack of snoopers' charter, says Sir Chris Fox - http://bit.ly/18E0YW6 good to hear

The NFB/MPAA statement - http://bit.ly/ZiXs0o it's a trick: the #MPAA is still kicking the #blind...

useful update on what happened in EU on clinical trials transparency - http://bit.ly/138eZt4 some progress, more work needed #opendata

Sharks Worth More for Tourism Than in Soup - http://bit.ly/19tom9W let's hope people realise this fast (v @BoraZ)

IP Commission: Cut Off WHO Funding If It Doesn't Make IP Protection Priority One - http://bit.ly/ZyA3um more callousness from maximalists

China hopes for transparent US-led TPP talks - http://bit.ly/13qrjDG wow, #china as champion of openness (v @maira)#TPP

Tumorous rats, GM contamination, and hidden conflicts of interest - http://bit.ly/15p5ndm this is turning into quite a saga #transparency

The LDC #TRIPS Transition Extension and the Question of Rollback - http://bit.ly/13qvgIu "no roll-back" is evil #LDCs

Imaging Breakthrough: See Atomic Bonds Before and After Molecular Reaction - http://bit.ly/11cfYoT wow #science (v @slashdot)

#Kazakhstan: Archeologists Unearth “Princess of the #Scythians” - http://bit.ly/11tBF2D fascinating culture

The Water Story - http://bit.ly/11gDhRr why #Hittite wa-a-tar fits right in with húdōr, wæter, vatn and vanduõ #linguistics #indoeuropean

Canadian #ACTA Compliance Bill Inches Forward - http://bit.ly/17bpnnW what a waste of time and effort

Anhörung zu Softwarepatenten im Rechtsausschuss des Bundestag - http://bit.ly/11tJ6H8 could anything really come of this? #swpats

#Android now owns half of #China's smartphone market - http://cnet.co/12U9ZGC impressive

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum Does Digital Archives Right -- Hi-Res Downloads & A Suite Of Online Editing Tools - http://bit.ly/11gEGHV exemplary

Who is the Chinese developer building a new billion dollar financial district in #London? - http://bit.ly/16wGXDr good question #china

Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their #Surveillance - http://bit.ly/17FuMV2 getting worse & worse #AU

Acuerdo Transpacífico: La negociación comercial que podría aumentar los costos médicos en Chile - http://bit.ly/11ICPgy oh yes #TPP

130530

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130529 - http://bit.ly/18xcSUa yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

EFF Makes Formal Objection to #DRM in #HTML5 - http://bit.ly/12j3d2n nice move; sad to see @timberners_lee on the wrong side of this

Afghanistan war has cost Britain more than £37bn, new book claims - http://bit.ly/Zv0ctR for nothing; imagine it spent on A&E depts...

Reporters Tell Attorney General Eric Holder They Won't Agree To 'Off The Record' Meeting - http://bit.ly/10BDE9v quite right

RT @NeelieKroesEU:"you saved their right to access the open internet, by guaranteeing #netneutrality" - http://bit.ly/18xhiud but how?

EU Clinical trials: clearer rules, better protection - http://bit.ly/16ruKjl looks like progress is being made towards #opendata

Number of ambulances turned away from A&E increases by 24% - http://bit.ly/12jDczM people are probably dying because of this collapse #NHS

New #dataprotection rules at risk, EU watchdog warns - http://bit.ly/Zv30r8 some MEPs betraying their constituents

EU ministers approve crackdown on over-fishing - http://bit.ly/176Uwsz I hope so - we can't go on like this

EU agrees workable deal on fisheries reform to recover fish stocks - http://bit.ly/15kPV27 wow,@GreenpeaceEU approves (v @jonworth)

Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens “Letter from Loretto” - http://bit.ly/16rBoWN well-written, fascinating

#Baidu announces new version of maps that allows friends 2 chat & share their real-time location - http://tnw.co/10JMSND chinese innovation

Innovators, Public Interest Groups & #OpenAccess Supporters Pull Out Of Talks On EU #Copyright In Protest - http://bit.ly/114xryo

EU citizens demand #transparency and independent science on GMOs - http://bit.ly/114ydvx why we must have #opendata from #EFSA

#Taiwan's #Copyright Proposals Would Combine SOPA With A Dash Of The Great Firewall Of #China - http://bit.ly/140zEAg not good

Sources: no Digital Economy Act copyright warning letters until 2016 at earliest - http://bit.ly/18ykPIP useful update (v @copyrightgirl)

why investor-state dispute resolution could sabotage national health efforts on smoking - http://huff.to/18AZn3m big threat (v @PCGTW)#TPP

Witnesses at US Trade Hearing Offer Opinions (& Warnings) on Intellectual Property in Upcoming Negotiations with EU - http://bit.ly/15lt8Dj

Non-GM demand rocketing in US - http://bit.ly/11CMR2R interesting if confirmed #gmlabelling

China to study joining #TPP - http://bit.ly/119M44x since TPP is anti-#china, that would be surprising, to say the least

EU, Canada’s differences over financial services holding up free trade pact: documents - http://bit.ly/13lFzhd grinding on #CETA

Theresa May betrays our values by banning extremists from airwaves - http://bit.ly/11qZcB5 pathetic kneejerk reaction (v @PoliceStateUK)

Massive Growth In Independent Musicians & Singers Over The Past Decade - http://bit.ly/11e1kk5 great analysis

Announcing the Financial #Transparency Coalition - http://bit.ly/12RDGrQ welcome move

#Ubuntu declares bug #1 -- '#Microsoft has a majority market share' -- closed - http://zd.net/19qpKKF what a jester

Latin American Civil Liberties groups urge MEPs to protect #privacy - http://bit.ly/10D2ohN knock-on benefits: just do it #dataprotection

Snooper's charter is threat to Net freedom, web 5 warn May - http://bit.ly/136p8pY kudos to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo! & Twitter

Computer Scientists Urge Court 2 Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v. Google API Fight - http://bit.ly/12ky4LN (c) for APIs mad (v @webmink)

#CBS Tells Court: No One Could Possibly Read Our Statements 'We Will Sue Aereo' To Mean We Will Sue Aereo - http://bit.ly/12kCQc6 hilarious

130529

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130528 - http://bit.ly/18t92LK yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

US-EU Trade Deal In Trouble Before It Even Starts? - http://bit.ly/11opdBa will swivel-eyed loons change world history? #TAFTA/#TTIP

BSA-Piraterie-Studie: Leerstelle freie Software - http://bit.ly/17qSrbS further musings thereon #opensource

When the facts don’t fit your argument for snooping, just make them up - http://bit.ly/12NNwen great rebuttal of stupid comments

Il tribunale del riesame di Roma  annulla il decreto di sequestro del  Cyberlocker mondiale  Rapidgator - http://bit.ly/13Ygknh

“Licences4Europe” has not accepted “The Right to Read is the Right to Mine” - http://bit.ly/10zkEbK great polemic #openaccess #textmining

[RT]  Genachowski: Exit Interview - http://on.tnr.com/11vPsvp "The outgoing FCC boss on net neutrality, political polarization, & free speech"

RSA: National Recordal System for Indigenous Knowledge launched - http://bit.ly/19ljW5a interesting move

City of #Munich: "Migration to sustainable desktop completed successfully" - http://bit.ly/12NPw6g hugely important project - kudos to all

Could Crowdfunding Help Build Cities? - http://on.mash.to/1173ejo intriguing

Free David Byrne/St Vincent EP - http://bit.ly/11xyHQz fab

Wild lynx to be brought back to British countryside - http://bit.ly/1122VFj can't wait for wolves & bears too (v @Protohedgehog @edyong209)

Toronto cops hospitalize hotel guest who recorded them arresting another guest - http://bit.ly/1174raf luckily, they were recorded

Testimony Prepared for the USTR Hearing on #TAFTA/#TTIP - http://bit.ly/145xwno good analysis

Danish Police Admit That #DataRetention Hasn't Helped At All - http://bit.ly/10GYqkO great: now we have a data point we can point to #dk

How Long Before A Patent Kills A Hundred Million People? - http://bit.ly/11b5bye worth thinking about #genepatents #influenza

Ireland to introduce plain cigarette packets - http://bit.ly/15a0iq3 kudos; pity #cameron lacks the guts to follow suit #tobacco

#Australia government goes with #ODF document standard - http://bit.ly/15a0ZQd great move #openstandards

More Than 500 Million Photos Are Shared Every Day - http://on.mash.to/10I5I7O we live in the Age of #Sharing #opensource

VP8 cross-license draft compatible with FOSS #licensing - http://bit.ly/10AvwpH hmmm... (v @cdaffara)

Treaty for the #Blind in Jeopardy, #Copyright Zealots to Blame - http://bit.ly/ZeVUo8 but hey, #monopolies before #mercy (v @xpectro)

The Aftermath Of Napster: Letting Incumbents Veto Innovation Slows Down Innovation Drastically - http://bit.ly/18zpfN0 good points

Boris Johnson unveils plan for £1bn Chinese business district - http://bit.ly/11bsWWW bonkers - I like it... (v @ChinaBizWatch)#london

#Assange: latest interviews - http://bit.ly/16pX59L http://bit.ly/10IjOWG not dull, at least

First Crowdfunded #Space Telescope Open to the World - http://on.mash.to/18voVRV lovely idea

Cambridge University Linguists Use Twitter To Study How #Welsh Language Use Is Changing - http://tcrn.ch/Zf2zim fascinating #linguistics

EU Ombudsman: EFSA fails on conflict of interests - http://bit.ly/15aH8QG #EFSA must be reformed if it is to be credible

Dänemark: Internetüberwachung ist unbrauchbar zur Strafverfolgung - http://bit.ly/18zuKLJ important admision #dk

White House Makes It Impossible For The Blind To Sign Petition Supporting Copyright Treaty For The Blind - http://bit.ly/13jyTQv

Days to stop the #whale massacre - http://bit.ly/118jCQo how could any decent human being kill these animals for dogfood? #epetition

130528

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130527 - http://bit.ly/114W9jj yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Jaron Lanier: Sell your data to save the economy and your future - http://bbc.in/ZbkeHt actually interesting for a change (v @Rchards)

Baby in China saved from sewer pipe - http://bit.ly/13WaaUu what a desperately sad story

Britain doesn’t need a #Snooping Act, or another new terrorism committee - http://bit.ly/11tKYFI excellent analysis (v @NO2ID @glynwintle)

CIMMYT: Bill Gates Invests $25 Million In Controversial GM Crop Center - http://huff.to/12ZVHpI easy: abolish gene patents (v @DrRimmer)

Will the EU-US trade deal encourage attacks on the public interest? - http://bit.ly/Zq5p6m you bet; good to see this conference #TAFTA

Abstimmung über Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Reisedaten in zwei Wochen - http://bit.ly/19iB7nL contact your MEPs

Soybeanland Stands Up to #Monsanto - http://bit.ly/12enFkE " “Mothers of Ituzaingó” fighting against spraying of pesticide #Roundup"

#Alibaba launches new project, backed by $16.3b funding, to improve goods delivery in #China - http://tnw.co/1atv5hX big getting bigger

El #TPP, nuevo acuerdo comercial, amenaza la libertad en Internet - http://bit.ly/16m7CD2 getting the word out (v @carobotero)

#Mozilla teams up with Foxconn to debut a #Firefox OS #tablet? - http://cnet.co/171AH5W that would be fun

Jailbreaking the PDF; a wonderful hackathon and a community leap forward for freedom - http://bit.ly/16m9s6U great work

First Video Broadcast From Mt. Everest Peak Outrages Tourist Ministry of Nepal - http://bit.ly/1audeaE </sigh>

The Zombie Bill Is Back - http://bit.ly/10ZWjav let's hope not...# snooping

#BSA Study Demonstrates #OpenSource's Economic Advantage - http://bit.ly/11uHfHK some of you might find this rather entertaining... #piracy

NBC Universal and Warner Bros. have asked Google to de-list Mega from its search results - http://tnw.co/12f8TdE disproportionate as ever

Jailbreaking the PDF – 2; Technical aspects (Glyph processing) - http://bit.ly/15fa3mg interesting stuff

#BBC iPlayer will allow radio content to be downloaded for offline access from 2014 - http://tnw.co/ZqHp2T more #DRM stupidity

The Politics of Security in a Democracy - http://bit.ly/11uLdQG wise and depressing

Toronto mayor: homicide detectives search mayor's office after tip on crack-smoking video; top staffers quit - http://bit.ly/15fhiKZ #ca

PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug - http://bit.ly/11uS3G4 this reminds me why I hate #paypal

Fear Mongering Report Suggests 'IP Theft From China' One Of The Biggest Problems America Faces - http://bit.ly/15fjMsD great debunking

Do established economic models apply to data, and will they spread wealth, or is Jaron Lanier wrong? - http://bit.ly/15fkQwN good analysis

#Chile’s Recent Lead Negotiator on #TPP Warns It Could Be a “Threat to Our Countries” - http://bit.ly/10EBVwF & he should know

How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” - http://ars.to/15fu0JG fantastic piece - do read (v @manhack)#security

UK: Tories are floating plans to cap the number of times we are allowed to visit our GP - http://bit.ly/13fSq4f #epetition to stop it #NHS

Meat from endangered #whales used for dog treats in Japan - http://bit.ly/19jvgPd sickening; caught in #iceland

AllTrials campaign writes to every MEP on ENVI committee before the vote on the clinical trial regulation tomorrow - http://bit.ly/11n5PVa

Two die after H7N9 bird flu virus resists treatment - http://bit.ly/ZcejBZ confirmation that #tamiflu is officially useless

Europe Continues To Allow Vegetable Patent Despite Being Told To Stop - http://bit.ly/Zclzhq #EPO goes rogue

Pirate Bay Founder Denies Hacking Charges in Court - http://bit.ly/13ggjc4 the saga continues

How Technology Is and Isn't Helping Fight #Corruption in #India - http://bit.ly/13Xfas1 fascinating perspective

#Kickstarter passes 100,000 launched projects, 44% funded successfully thanks to $535m in crowdsourcing - http://tnw.co/16ngk3P impressive

Why Are UK Police Allowing Entertainment Industry Employees To Arrest And Interrogate People With Their Help? - http://bit.ly/15ghBoJ why?

Julius Genachowski: Exit Interview - http://on.tnr.com/11vPsvp "The outgoing FCC boss on net neutrality, political polarization, & free speech"

Woolwich attacks - MI5 refuses to back ‘snooper’s charter’ - http://ind.pn/19jXiKk if so, kudos to them (v @spyblog @glynwintle)

Lion Meat Tacos (You Read That Right) Are the Latest Threat to #Conservation - http://bit.ly/19k6SwM just sick (v @BoraZ)

130527

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130526 - http://bit.ly/15ahf2X yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Britain resists EU bid to set new target on renewable energy - http://bit.ly/18txbPI stupid old tories strike again

Updated: "Final" version of the text for the CEWG "Decisions Point" - http://bit.ly/10uBdp7 is this good or bad?

Xiaomi’s Daring Plan to Let Fans Design the Phone - http://bit.ly/12XQqid v interesting approach #android #china

Google Glass Comes To Android Phones Unofficially - http://bit.ly/11qv2ns interesting

Hablando del #TPP en PuntoEdu - http://bit.ly/19gkxVD getting the message out

#TPP & TSA will undermine sovereignty - http://bit.ly/10uCQmW of course - that's the point

Obama's trade reps and the MPAA are killing a copyright treaty that gives rights to disabled people - http://bit.ly/16jURIW shameful

#Opensource, cross-platform office suite Joeffice was created in just 30 days - http://bit.ly/17eIBd3 anyone tried this?

Stakeholders from research sector, SMEs and #openaccess publishers withdraw from Licences for Europe - http://bit.ly/11kwGBj (v @MaelB)#EU

'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years' - http://bit.ly/13UPVqo shame on #indonesia, shame on western companies

Despite High Court Intervention, Copyright Trolls Continue Where ACS:Law Left Off - http://bit.ly/12Y44SA will they ever stop?

Verhandlungsstand der Datenschutzreform im Ministerrat – Minister schützen Markt, aber keine Daten - http://bit.ly/13UQn88 what a betrayal

Bio-Hackers, Get Ready - http://tcrn.ch/13UQHnk exciting stuff, but all closed-source as far as I can see...

Book launch of ”The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, Brussels, June 18th - http://bit.ly/14WijIe important project

How #Drones With Facial Recognition Technology Will End #Anonymity, Everywhere - http://read.bi/15boTtR that's a pity (v @jackschofield)

#Fairphone: social values with smart, radically open design that considers full lifecycle of the product - http://bit.ly/14Xecvx #android

Intellectual property in the time of crowdfunding - http://bit.ly/14XgpHq why the latter renders intellectual monopolies superfluous

Neutralité des réseaux : quelles solutions pour quelle transparence ? - http://bit.ly/11rF2wO Bruxelles 06 juin #netneutrality (v @MaelB)

Italiens 5-Sterne-Bewegung kommt nach Deutschland - http://bit.ly/15bNdfb wow: Grillchen im Deutschland (v @Liberationtech @EthanZ)#de

#TPP: Japón estará en próxima ronda de negociación - http://bit.ly/1aqW5Pb then the fun begins (v @derechosdigital @fifarahman)#japan

EU exit would put US trade deal at risk, Britain warned - http://bit.ly/11rLrIs wow, #UKIP might kill #TAFTA/#TTIP

Another Reason Why #OpenSource Wins: Fairness - http://bit.ly/17gXGe9 enter the #Fairphone #android #bloodminerals

Sensationsfund: Porträt von Georg #Büchner auf Dachboden entdeckt  - http://bit.ly/16kMxst exciting; one of my favourite writers

Italian prosecutor may put Facebook staff under investigation after suicide over 'bullying' - http://bit.ly/15bZZdv (v @LifeinSicily)

Woolwich murder — the “why?” should be obvious - http://bit.ly/115P1WT yup: Blair's ridiculous line actions abroad have no consequences

Dear #WordPress - http://bit.ly/18uH0wT nicely done - & happy birthday (v @mathewi)

Culls risk illegally exterminating #badgers, animal expert warns - http://bit.ly/ZoYL02 after bees, another #paterson fiasco: resign now

My manifesto for rewilding the world - http://bit.ly/13dsFSb intriguing idea

Matt Mullenweg on how #opensource is democratising the web - http://bit.ly/114fVv9 looking back on 10 years of #wordpress

130526

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130525 - http://bit.ly/156lxsc yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Hackney GPs to challenge out-of-hours bid bombshell - http://bit.ly/19e6JuM #TAFTA/#TTIP will make this happen everywhere #nhs

Why Drummer Rigby’s slaughter should haunt Clegg - http://bit.ly/128Tprz cynical & ignorant piece about #snooperscharter

Tories look at limiting GP visits - http://bit.ly/13Tk7SF after that, just go & die in the corner without troubling the rich any more #nhs

Spying on citizens is criminal - http://bit.ly/13Tkeh3 people start asking questions in #zambia (v @JulieOwono)#surveillance

Who owns Superman? The Man of Steel fights #trademark law - http://bit.ly/13Vi0uc interesting point about #fanfic

With European Elections One Year Out, Pirate Representation Expected To Triple - http://bit.ly/128UI9T let's hope #EU

How Religious Corporations Are Gobbling Up Healthcare Facilities - http://bit.ly/18rzB1i "subject to a set of theological agreements"

USians: How You Can Help Create a Better Farm Bill - http://bit.ly/138BrAM "support for labeling of foods with GM ingredients"

How Corporations Are Subverting Attempts to Rein in Their Power - http://bit.ly/128W58D the biggest threat in #TAFTA/#TTIP - pl. read

Triple-nested Klein bottle - http://bit.ly/1121ISL now that's nice

How Corporations use Global Investment Rules to Undermine A Sustainable Future - http://bit.ly/156s7Pe detailed report on investor-state disputes

ARM In Supercomputers — 'Get Ready For the Change' - http://bit.ly/18ipHS9 more good news for #linux

British broadcaster BSkyB has all of its Android apps hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army - http://tnw.co/Z82zka careless

Is This Kickstarter Project the Future of #Blogging? - http://on.mash.to/13VlDQW #opensource and ambitious - great combination

ProjectLibre edges in on Microsoft Project dominance - http://red.ht/16XlHpT we really need this #opensource #projectplanning

Introducing PubPeer.com - http://bit.ly/Zm8hRy "an organized system of post-publication review"; interesting project

Tizen running on a Intel UltraBook at the Tizen Conference 2013 - http://bit.ly/10sK7U6 so is #tizen finally taking off? #linux

Will Irish courts take phone hacking seriously? - http://bit.ly/Z84rcF weird stuff

Research sector, SMEs, civil society groups & #oa publishers withdraw from Licences for EU re text & data mining - http://bit.ly/18rDF1s

Five Undercover Police Cars Sent To Arrest Single Alleged Movie Pirate - http://bit.ly/12FRSnO absurd overreaction & waste of police time

Taking the privacy message to MEPs - http://bit.ly/14QZLsS we need to do this much more often to counter #lobbying #EU

Schedule of Witness Testimony at #TAFTA/#TTIP Hearing Next Week - http://bit.ly/13ToIUS so it begins

RIAA: The #Copyright Reform We Need Is To Make Everyone Else Copyright Cops - http://bit.ly/18rFD23 destroy the Net rather than change

Chevron calls for strong investor rights chapter in US-EU trade deal - http://bit.ly/187c9J8 "be able to challenge European fracking bans"

RIAA Makes Drastic Employee Cuts as Revenue Plummets - http://bit.ly/Z86Wvz time to bin it

Greek Gene Bank’s Struggle Indicative Of Changing Times - http://bit.ly/10V6QDQ why we can't risk depending on seedbanks

Is "Licences for Europe" already falling apart? The case of text and data mining - http://bit.ly/10V7tNT the whole project was a disgrace

Millions march against #Monsanto - http://bit.ly/11nNZHE so what next? (v @WarOnWant @olivierhoedeman)

Mass surveillance wouldn't have saved the life of Drummer Rigby - http://bit.ly/111o17S spot on; this is just "cynical opportunism": shame

#Copyright Amendment Will Bring Web Filter System to Taiwan - http://bit.ly/10ydBMX foolish move (v @avilarenata)#censorship #sopa

EU Hackathon 2013: Visualisieren, wie Behörden auf private Online-Kommunikation zugreifen und gewinnen - http://bit.ly/16XsLmm sehr cool

Cap on number of GP visits being considered by Tories - http://ind.pn/156NyQg appalling idea (v @BellaPagan @BendyGirl @cstross)#nhs

WHO Should Have The Evidence? Ben Goldacre Refutes WHO Director’s Claim - http://bit.ly/156Oc0a yay, go @bengoldacre

Police Confiscate Food And Sleeping Bags From Homeless In Ilford - http://bit.ly/111pUl4 what kind of heartless swine would do that?

Neelie Kroes responds: Old mantras and political uncertainty 4 net neutrality in Europe - http://bit.ly/19eif9y look it's easy: just do it

Cheap shale gas bubble 'will burst within 2-4 years': Expert - http://bit.ly/111q6AA so let's not even go there #fracking

Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me - http://bit.ly/17ad6AG how to lose credibility

Cops Go Undercover at High School to Bust Special-Needs Kid for Pot - http://bit.ly/12FZ0R8 how pathetic can you get? #bullies

Theresa May lines up new measures to combat terrorism - http://bit.ly/ZmfWiN she should just resign now #surveillance

Google defends its use of proprietary tech in Hangouts - http://bit.ly/11nXMNH good luck with that, #evil #Google (v @jackschofield)

[RT] How Corporations Are Subverting Attempts to Rein in Their Power - http://bit.ly/128W58D the biggest threat in #TAFTA/#TTIP - pl. read

[RT] good report on investor-state dispute resolution - http://bit.ly/156s7Pe how they undermine national sovereignty #TPP #TAFTA/#TTIP

Why should Canadians care about investor-state treaties? - http://bit.ly/12WcFFq they override national sovereignty (v @DrRimmer @CeOlivet)

Double heart and lung transplant dies nine days after she has benefits stopped - http://bit.ly/10sTxPs this is tories' UK (v @Asher_Wolf)

last story: worth noting it was privatised #Atos assessors that said she was "fit to work" days before she died - our future, UK #compassion

Leading scientist attacks university over 'outrageous' IVF treatment patent - http://bit.ly/13908xb more idiotic US patents on nature

needless to say, #BBC news has not one iota about the 2 million people marching against #monsanto yesterday; the mega-fail continues... #sad

Türkei: Religiöse greifen Kuss-Protest an - http://bit.ly/19epHBE kiss-in: lovely idea

Tory-Labour pact could save #snooping bill, says Michael Howard - http://bbc.in/ZmrMtr wow, coalition of control freaks: shame on #labour

 "sharp rise in malformations mirrored v closely increase in cultivation of GMO soya" - http://bit.ly/157kCrr #glyphosate likely culprit

I always wondered why Microsoft chose "bing" - http://bit.ly/Z8mSOo "pile built of accumulated spoil - the overburden or other waste rock"

Virginia Republicans Nominate Anti-Science Candidate for Governor - http://onforb.es/139Arg2 contemptuous of science, dreadful news

Luftüberwachung: Deutsche Bahn setzt Drohnen gegen Graffiti-Sprüher ein - http://bit.ly/1amXnuq wow, probably just the start #drones

"would prevent #TPP governments  from requiring companies to disclose proprietary formulas for  their products" - http://bit.ly/18jAPOJ

#Iceland campaigns to restrict internet porn - http://bit.ly/13TMK25 only way to do that is to shut down the Net... #is

Is the #TPP a Waste of Time and Energy? - http://bit.ly/10yYIKp good analysis of US hypocrisy (v @limweywen @fifarahman)

At trade talks, US, EU ready for fight on genetically modified crops - http://bit.ly/ZmILeY  will the European Commission cave on this?

Samsung invests $25 million to open its first US-based patent business - http://tnw.co/19eTKsI the madness spreads

US (c) industry: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware,  ransomware and trojans to attack pirates! - http://bit.ly/16iPeuC nuts

Government-backed logging 'pushing rare possum towards extinction' - http://bit.ly/11jBbvL nice pice for launch of #Guardian #Australia

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130524 - http://bit.ly/11hD6B6 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's family are, variously, a drug kingpin, a gangster, & affiliated with KKK - http://bit.ly/176Hk7G read, wonder

How the U.S. Government Hacks the World - http://buswk.co/12ErMSc & undermines its ability to criticise #china (v @AnnieMachon)

The National Health Action Party calls for immediate release of the #NHS Risk Register - http://bit.ly/18qAMhs something to hide, UK gov?

#Peru funded illegal Amazon rainforest road, claims Global Witness - http://bit.ly/14Ozs6y need to spread word, keep up pressure on this