I've just been testing iRedLite. Very nice. I've got it working with VLC. 

Bruce Schneier has another takedown of the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument. My response is simple: if you've got nothing to hide, why don't you put your put your bank statements online? Well, it's your property and you should be the one who sets the rules. If that means "no NSA wiretappers, fuck off, die, now", then that's your right. (Oh, boy, I'm doing the anti-American trick less than a day before I travel to the USA - they're going to love me extra closely at Logan Int'l tommorow! ) 

Talking of Apple, they really need to fix this! 

By the way, Apple, if you want to send me one of them black MacBooks for the purposes of review, you just need to drop me an email. I'll be most amenable.  

Kieran Healy over at the Timber has a critical response to the ACTA report. 

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni have a new report out on academic freedom issues. It's in the right spirit, even though it's a little bit OTT. 

Les Jenkins has an amazing post about atheist racist Alabaman, Larry Darby. 

Steve Reuland has a nice takedown of Salvador Cordova's nonsense about genetic identification through polymerase chain reactions being evidence for ID.