Interesting Links for 22-11-2012

[fearmeforiampink]

• The Man Who Stole Greece: Cuffed chap had data on most of country • The Register
  'Greek police have cuffed a suspect who allegedly stole personal data of three-quarters of the country's population as part of an attempted industrial-scale ID theft scam.'
  (tags: identity information Greece crime news interesting )
• Thanks, Textbooks.
  'I’m less concerned with the question, “What does the scale read?”  and more concerned with the question, “Why the hell are we lubricating a hamster?”'
  (tags: education weird silly tumblr amusing )
• Alex Salmond 'should allow business leaders to speak out against independence' - Telegraph
  'Labour and the Tories described as “significant” accusations by the chief executive of one of the country’s largest firms that the SNP pour “rains of bile and ire” on businessmen who publicly oppose separation.'
  (tags: posttofacebook image business Scottish independence Scotland politics news interersting )
• Great tit disease ‘spread to UK by insects’
  (It's actually about Avian pox, but allow me my dirty mind)
  (tags: birds dirty minded bad joke amusing )
• Apple - Support - iPod nano Replacement Program
  Battery issues on iPod 1st generation models, Apple will replace them
  (tags: posttofacebook music iPod Apple PSA interesting )

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hah! More likely, the Apple thing is a way for them to say "wait, there are first-gen batteries that still WORK? Fuck! Let's get all those outliers back into our lab so we can figure out what we did wrong and ensure that none of our future products ever last six years without dying!"

[omniscient-fool.livejournal.com]

My macbook from 2007 is still running on its original battery. The apple geniuses think I'm a witch.