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Using Outlook on the PC to handle your POP mail? Then this handy plugin can filter spam, strip HTML email and even allow brainf**k programmed filters. fantastic.

Buy a disturbing "Anatomical Teddy" [via b3ta]

Play dvorak using pre-designed decks. you can even have them displayed ready for printing, which is very cool.

Not from the UK? Then try this handy guide to British Cultural Refrences [via leobridle@hotmail.com]

Got a blender? Got a phone? But have you got, a blender phone?

Post Office To Steam Open Your History File [from stand.org.uk]

One of the more extreme powers the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) handed out two years ago let government agencies obtain "traffic data" without a judicial warrant.

Traffic data is best described as the writing on the envelope of a message, instead of its contents. It can be the list of phone numbers you have called in the last six months. Or a full list of Websites you have visited. Or the times you log on, and from where. Or who you e-mail, or what programs you've downloaded, or what newsgroups you read. Or the position of your cellphone last Tuesday at five.

Because the risk of abuse of this power (there's no judicial oversight - all that's needed is the permission of a suitably high-powered boss), those who could wield it were strictly limited. Only the police, Customs and Excise and the secret services were allowed access to traffic data in the original act.

Not any more.

On Friday, the Home Office petitioned parliament to add a vast array of organisations to that list. If their passes, everyone from the DTI, any local authority, the Food Standards Agency, the Home Office themselves (of course), and staggeringly enough, Consignia. The final entry in the list says that "A Universal Service Provider within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000" has the same power as the secret services to read your traffic data. There's only one USP in Britain right now, and that's the provider previously known as the Royal Mail.

If the idea that the fricking Post Office has access to your web logs (access which would cost a competitive company millions, and would probably get them investigated by the Data Protection people), let alone every minor apparatchik on the block, you might want to kick up a fuss about this. It's due to appear before MPs on June 18th, and the Lords a little after.

A USB harddisc the size of a highlighter. not cheap, but VERY cool.

more saftey guides from the people who bought you the Advertising Safety Guide. ace

You should read girls are pretty every day [via drew]

I'm sure that I wasn't alone in participating in the game of Who-Can-Bring-the-Biggest-Tool-to-School?

Geoff, however, was a master of this game, and trumped my hammer drill with his father's grinder.

For anyone who missed it, google had a week of dilbert

Gretchen: [Donnie Darko?](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0246578) What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something. Donnie: What makes you think I'm not?

Football is stupid, discuss.

Tom wants people to do his survey.

All of my fonts are now available in an auto-installing collection. Thanks to b3ta meber and all round cool guy Tomsk, for using my CubicFive font in his DIY weather app.

Sidetrack has a new design.

Possibly cool perl module of the week: DBI::FullTextSearch.

Some smart person on b3ta put together a school photo. It's me! and Denise! and Rob!

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself Where is my mind?

What pixies song are you? And no, don't tell me about all the "Which X am I?" sites. I don't care. [edit: new url]

Today at iamcal: the tube

I found some cool alternative tube maps. Most interesting is the kings cross isometric one. Does anyone know of any isometric views of the new kings cross/ st. pancras redevelopment?

[edit: i can't link directly to the kings cross isometric view, so i've copied it to my server: here]

Darth vader: not evil

Matt jacob has a new weblog.

The tale has been updated. Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far. Keep them coming.

"strange game, the only way to win is not to play" Wargames is retro-cool.

Guy Parsons continues the tale

Greg Knauss has a new book. And i've got it. And it's really cool.

Mulholland drive is the strangest movie i've seen in a while.

k10k is back.

"Riot is an alternative Web browser that builds its page by combining text, images and links from the recent pages that any Riot user has surfed to." [via b3ta]

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