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...Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was the first person in Britain to own a Macintosh computer, and I was the second. Goodbye, glowing green command line; hello, mouse, icons and graphical desktop with white screen, closable windows and menus that dropped down like roller blinds. Throughout the next decade I would regularly go round to Douglas' London house, floppy discs under my arm, and ring the doorbell. (See the 50 best websites...
...reaction hasn't been all positive, though. Britain's right-leaning Daily Telegraph newspaper called the campaign "dour and humorless" and some bloggers were nastier still. The Moores believe they've hit a nerve, and the issue clearly resonates far beyond Britain. In the U.S., "it's kind of reached ridiculous proportions," says Brown. "[Parents] are saying, 'I can't find anything other than pink for my daughter.'" What Pinkstinks is doing, Brown adds, "is using the color pink to get at something more complex, and that's the way girls are being packaged and sold, and sold out through...
...Britain is one of the world's leading surveillance states. Privacy International, an advocacy group, ranks the U.K. right behind flagrant offenders like Russia and China. But such concerns didn't hit home for British filmmaker David Bond until the U.K. government lost a slew of data on his newborn daughter. In response, Bond decided to see what it would take to escape detection for a month in his data-happy homeland. The experiment turned into a documentary, Erasing David, now available for download from iTunes and Amazon.com. Bond sat down with TIME to talk about his film...
...seems like privacy is an oft-discussed concern in Britain. What has the government done that's been cause for alarm? There's always a balance between privacy and security. You've got to know where you want to draw that line, and for various reasons, the British government has drawn the line in a pretty frightening place. I think those reasons are terrorism, fear of crime and also the fact that we didn't we have the problems in the Second World War that our European neighbors did. We don't have the kind of collective memory of what...
...within forty minutes. But I knew I had to come back, because I didn't want to do a film about whether you could live privately abroad. The PIs did say to me, "Go anywhere in the world. We'll catch you." But I ended up coming back to Britain...