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Linkety kerplinety plunk…

• Washington Monthly says the UK’s 4.3 million CCTV surveillance cameras are proving Orwell wrong about life in the surveillance society.
• A 10″ Mac notebook for $300? Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
• This hand-cranked, penny-dispensing sculpture lets anyone work for minimum wage.
• Golly, Associated Press, I don’t know. Is Obama too much like Mr. Spock? Inquiring minds want to know.
• I give you: the 2005 winners of the Tube Council’s Tubes of the Year Awards (remember that big upset in ’05 in the Dentrifice Tube category? Sensadyne was robbed! Baby Oragel can suck it!).
• Check out these two new wicked cool ideas for interstellar drives at NewScientist.
• Look at this fucking hipster.