A phishing attack is underway against Facebook. Messages are being sent on Facebook with the subject ‘Look at this’ and then a link to fbstarter.com, kromked.net and fbaction.net (and entirely possibly other websites) which have been set up to look like a log-in page for Facebook. As ever, if you think you may have put [...]

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is leaving the GOP for the Democrats (NPR, BBC). Assuming that Al Franken is declared the winner in Minnesota, the Democrats will have a filibuster-proof sixty votes. This is going to shift the spotlight very much to Minnesota in the short and medium term. The (sort-of) incumbent, Norm Coleman, is [...]

Further to my post on the Government on Twitter, here are some other directories of UK political twitterers. The UKGovWeb Twitterverse from DavePress TweetyHall – local politicians Local councils on Twitter from Dorset for You Tweetminster Journalists from PR Blogger The UK Government on Twitter from Neil Williams xD.

The sound of cars being washed, lawns being mown and Sunday Mails being read… it must be a spring Sunday in the suburbs. # Jeremy Clarkson. Twat. # RT @BBCClick: Hardtalk are doing an interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tomorrow. What would you ask? Richard (editor, Click) # Will you join in if I [...]

The original from 1941. xD.

xD.

The Central Office of Information run a rather good website called the News Distribution Service, formerly the Government News Network. Below the fold are the RSS and Twitter feeds in three groups – aggregate, departmental and regional. Unfortunately, no-one knows about it as the COI doesn’t do much to promote it despite being “the Government’s [...]

At a guess, quite a few readers will be familiar with Paul Burgin’s blog, Mars Hill and his excellent series, Twenty Questions to a Fellow Blogger. It’s an idea I really wished I’d thought of except that his execution of it is very good. Anyway, installment CIV is none other than me. Please do take [...]

My friends, I have had enough. I do not want to listen to crap music on crap speakers on crap mobiles at the top of the bus. I’ve had enough of Soulja Boy on the tube. I would like it to be quiet in the Quiet Zone on the train. I don’t mind if people [...]

I would like to congratulate, inter alia, Peter Gooderham, British ambassador to the UN in Geneva, for walking out of Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN. xD.