Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-24-2011

• John Major wanted two-party alliance to take on Rupert Murdoch | Politics | guardian.co.uk
  Chris Mullin's diaries reveal that former prime minister wanted Labour and Tories to unite to bring down tycoon's empire
  (tags: politics murdoch notw journalism)
• Analysts: Google Looks to Novell for Motorola Value | PCWorld
  Analysts from Frost & Sullivan noticed that Google's proposed US$12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola amounts to $510,204.08 per Motorola patent and application. Motorola recently said it had 24,500 patent and patent applications. That happens to be the exact same amount, to the penny, that the Microsoft consortium paid for Novell patents. Google playing silly buggers/making a point
  (tags: interesting intellectualproperty phones technology)
• What it's like to play online games as a grownup - The Oatmeal
  It's a particular type of online games, and not quite that bad, but it makes a generally good point.
  (tags: gaming webcomics amusing geeky viaandrewducker)