Interesting Links for 24-01-2013

• X-Surface: Don't believe everything you read.
  Journalism no longer appears to include even basic fact checking, as regards tech, anyways.
  (tags: journalism technology posttofacebook fail image via andrew ducker interesting media culture )
• Actual Facebook Graph Searches
  Simultaneously amusing and worrying.
  (tags: information posttofacebook social media facebook image amsuing interesting culture )
• Get ready for 'Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day' | Crave - CNET
  (tags: sexism technology amusing via james graham interesting media culture )
• Private health contractor's staff told to cut 999 calls to meet targets | Society | The Guardian
  'Leaked email from Serco managers tells workers to manipulate computer system to 'stop the clock' on emergency calls'
  (tags: posttofacebook fail money health NHS wtf privatisation healthcare )
• Cat Transit System (CTS) | Because We Can
  (tags: cats geeky home lifehack awesome pets via james graham clever design )
• Obama Urged to Resign Over Beyonce Scandal : The New Yorker
  It worries me that I've grown so used to the level of anti-Obama retoric that it took me a while to be sure this was a parody. Poes Law is starting to apply to politics more and more.
  (tags: politics posttofacebook parody america amusing republicans obama )
• Government says mot-diese is proper French term for hashtag – The Connexion
  THE French government has caused amusement on the internet by insisting the proper term for “hashtag” in French should be mot-dièse.
  (tags: France silly technology amusing language government lack of understanding error culture via bart calendar )
• 'Leave immediately': Britons in Benghazi warned to get out due to 'specific and imminent threat' - Africa - World - The Independent
  (tags: politics news war )