Interesting Links for 09-09-2012

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• Drinks are on the house! Landlord outwits pub licensing law by asking customers to buy beer mats - UK - News - Evening Standard
  'Drinkers are flocking to a bar that doesn’t need a licence because it doesn’t charge its customers.' (Came up in a discussion about LARP games where you can buy alcohol with IC currency.)
  (tags: via #maelfroth posttofacebook post law dodgy business money alcohol interesting )
• Grant Shapps altered school performance entry on Wikipedia | Politics | The Observer
  'New Tory party chairman Grant Shapps deleted O-level entry and information about donors to his private office'
  (tags: Conservatives UK Westminster politics who's a naughty boy then corruption interesting )
• Google blacklists websites run by family of Grant Shapps | Politics | The Guardian
  'for breaching its rules on copyright infringement. A string of at least 19 sites run by the wife, sister or 75-year-old mother of Shapps have been banned from carrying Google's adverts and been relegated to the bottom of its search results.'
  (tags: Conservatives Westminster politics interesting copyright crime law who's a naughty boy then Google )
• The rise and fall of Grant Shapps' Twitter followers | Politics | The Guardian
  'It appears that Shapps, at regular intervals, increases the number of people he follows by as many as 5,000 and if they do not follow him back, he unfollows them.'
  (tags: Westminster Conservatives dodgy politics social media twitter interesting )