God Save the Queen! I’m sure we won’t be far behind. The original link is 404 now, but there were about a million blog posts on it, including no less than Wired’s Bruce Sterling. I found it via Helen and Harry. Heh, grrl, I’m “hungry, angry and horny” too.

Ministers are planning to implant “machine-readable” microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.  Read more 

Joy.

The Pentagon plans to build a military commissions compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, costing up to $125 million, a major undertaking meant to accommodate up to 1,200 people for the first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II, The Miami Herald learned Thursday.

If funded by Congress, the compound would be the largest single construction expenditure at Guantánamo since the Bush administration set up the offshore detention center in January 2002.  Read more