Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-25-2011

[fearmeforiampink]

• Atos moves to shut down criticism | Tentacles of doom
  "It seems that Atos don’t like [people complaining and protesting about them]. They have started issuing legal threats, and they have succeeded in shutting down some of their opposition… They have also shut down a support forum for carers, CarerWatch,"
  (tags: thecoalition government fairness fail peoplesuck dude... disability)
• Judge OKs Unlicensed Cloud Music-Storage Service | Threat Level | Wired.com
  A federal judge backed the music storage-locker business model Monday while ruling that companies may develop services that store their customers’ songs in the cloud.
  (tags: music intellectualproperty crime interesting)
• The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control | Cracked.com
  Fair warning, lots of pictures of bugs.
  (tags: Warning:BUGS! insects Awesome interesting biology wtf photos cracked)
• How games saved my life
  "Testimonials about the positive, life-changing power of video games"
  (tags: interesting Awesome geeky culture)
• Andy Coulson 'broke' Commons pass rules by failing to declare NI payments | Media | guardian.co.uk
  R"egisters held in the Commons archive, seen by the Guardian, reveal that in September 2007 – three months after Coulson was employed by Cameron's office – the former News of the World editor failed to declare the health insurance, company car and severance payments he was receiving from his old employers."
  (tags: notw journalism corruption conservatives news)

Comments

[omniscient-fool.livejournal.com]

The ATOS stuff makes me so angry. I wanted to apply to be an assessor but you have to have some degree of medical background.

The games saved my life thing was just plain lovely!