It's a big week for the internet and the old powers.  I am fascinated by the Wikileaks story, not so much for the revelations themselves, but the reactions of some governments and columnists.  Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks have been likened to a terrorist by Sarah Palin, calls for his killing by William Kristol, former chief of staff to the US vice president, and further calls for death by conservative columnist Jeffrey T Kuhner in the Washington Times.  Some of these threats are listed in the Open Letter to the Australian Prime Minister regarding Julian Assange.

Sketchup is a great application. One of the great things about it is the ability to share bits and pieces with a whole community of users. I have a list of things SketchUp and LayOut users might find useful. All released under a Creative Commons License (free to share). If you would like me to add your work, feel free to email it to me, and I will add them to this list. Scrapbook: TK - Standard Scrapbook - Has standard architectural symbols that I use frequently. contents:

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This is a slightly unrelated topic to architecture, but it's one of those things that I feel very strongly about, and something that you can help with, just by knowing about it. I am sure that you've heard about the National ID Card scheme and the National Identity Register (NIR), with its claims to:

Communication over the internet is now quite advanced. You can call people free of charge through your computer, have video conferencing with more than one person, and take over each other’s computer screens from a distance. This is not particularly new; instant messaging (IM) has been available for free for some time, and have had a slow adoption, possibly due to inferior internet speeds.