Interesting Links for 16-10-2012

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• BBC News - Should Bank start the helicopter?
  Will the giraffe accept the yo-yo? It's a discussion of a 'helicopter drop' of money into the economy, and a fairly good one at that, I just love the surrealness of the title.
  (tags: posttofacebook financial crisis money economics quantitative easing amusing )
• BBC News - Furby, aliens and jigsaws: Top toys get techy for Christmas
  (tags: toys geeky clever living in the future technology interesting )
• BBC News - A Nobel Prize for beauty – and truth
  'economics can be both deeply mathematical and abstract, and deeply practical - not to say hugely useful to public and private organisations all over the world.'
  (tags: academia clever economics your obvious knowledge of game theory invalidates that approach Nobel prizes awesome interesting )
• ‘Dredd’ shows why the 3D film format is doomed… again | Kieran Turner-Dave | Independent Arts Blogs
  (tags: via James Graham technology cinema interesting )
• World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules | Environment | guardian.co.uk
  'Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions'
  (tags: via Andrew Ducker environment fail money science interesting )
• Lobbying scandals: All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. | Unlock Democracy
  You could almost set your watch by it. A lobbying scandal breaks. The rest of the press pick up on it, and everyone’s furious.
  (tags: corruption money politics Westminster admission of interest; I work for Unlock Democracy Unlock Democracy military lobbying interesting )
• I Swear, You're Famous
  'This is one man's ongoing quest to make obscene gestures near people better-known than him.'
  (tags: The Internet. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. via Dicky Moore culture tumblr photos posttofacebook awesome amusing )
• The Grind Haus, At Comic Con today, I went as Black Cat.
  People at a con, being fail and misogynist at a female cosplayer. And her forthright and awesome response.
  (tags: awesome people suck fandom feminism )