the null device is really ‘on’ recently, with items about:

• the torture cells developed by the Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War based on surrealistic art
  
• speculation on why, noticing his broadband connection was slowing, a California netsurfer with “subversive and potentially un-American” reading habits who did a traceroute discovered all his traffic was routed through a US government machine in Virginia
  
• Britain’s consideration of withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights
  
• the scandal of the Bloggies and “the downsides of a reputation economy”
  
• “Kudos to the first person to explain satisfactory why (it) is not terrorism” that the Pentagon battle plan for the Iraq war involves hitting it daily with more than the total number of Cruise missiles launched in the entire 1991 Gulf War “in order to demoralise the population”, targeting all regions.
  
• ‘a useful list of smutty phrases in French (cut out and keep in wallet or purse)’ from Nerve
  
• ‘a look at three films Hollywood wouldn’t dare make after 9/11: Dune, Starship Troopers and Fight Club‘