"Supermarkets could be asked to take people's fingerprints as part of the government's identity card scheme." What. The. Fuck?

"MicroID is a new Identity layer to the web and Microformats that allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere."

"... the prior existence of ethnic ID cards was one of the most important factors facilitating the speed and magnitude of the 100 days of mass killing in Rwanda."

"The major groups in Iraq are not distinguishable by physical traits, but they are by name. To avoid being killed, people are getting false identification cards."

Interesting post on the practicalities of implementing the ID card scheme - it's going to be a terrible mess, by the looks of it.

"More than half the British population does not fully accept the theory of evolution, according to a survey." What. The. Fuck?

A generation of Kansas schoolchildren to be taught fairy-tales in the science classroom. Definition of science changed to accomodate this. Good luck going to university, children of Kansas.

$80, 000 advance for Pastafarianism's first prophet to write a Bible.

"An OpenID identity is just a URL. You can have multiple identities in the same way you can have multiple URLs. All OpenID does is provide a way to prove that you own a URL (identity)."

"I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge."