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Interesting Links for 21-12-2013
Dec. 21st, 2013 04:00 pm- IAC's PR Chief Apparently Tweeted a Bizarrely Tasteless Joke About AIDS and Africa | Adweek
She's apparently 'unreachable on an international flight'. Going to have an interesting landing then. Company owns Match.com, OkCupid, Vimeo, Ask.com, Dictionary.com, & more.
- Students win LSE apology over ban on T-shirts depicting Prophet Mohamed and Jesus Christ - News - Student - The Independent
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2013
Jun. 7th, 2013 05:00 pm- Ugandan Minister: Gay Sex Wrong; Men Raping Girls 'Natural' | The Bilerico Project
Trigger warning for the obvious.
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2013
Feb. 22nd, 2013 04:00 pm- George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Stay classy George. To refuse to recognise Israel is one thing but to refuse to debate with someone because of their nationality is quite another.
- 8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks - CollegeHumor Article
- Warren Ellis » Download Wristbands, or: How To Give Books Away At Parties
'There’s something to be said for learning from the awful, twisting spasms of the music industry.'
- BBC News - In pictures: Renegades - the heavy metal sub-culture of Botswana
'a case study of an underground minority rebelling against the status quo, redrawing the borders of both heavy metal and orthodox culture in Botswana.'
- CSM8 Elections – EVE Online |Dev Blog
The EVE player council is switching to using STV for its elections
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Interesting Links for 04-02-2013
Feb. 4th, 2013 04:00 pm- BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Pink elephant is caught on camera
Sort-of on parade
- Swanson: Wombs of Women on Birth Control 'Embedded' with 'Dead Babies' | Right Wing Watch
- Police spies stole identities of dead children | UK news | The Guardian
'Undercover officers created aliases based on details found in birth and death records'
- wulfmojo • Twilight - Bella & Jacobs first kiss
Trigger warning for sexual assault/non-consent. Okay, I know Twilight is messed up. I didn't realise it was quite *this* fucked up. (Assuming that the quoted passage is from it; a quick google provided nothing that suggested it wasn't)
- Chris Huhne facing jail sentence after admitting perverting course of justice | UK news | guardian.co.uk
'Former minister resigns seat after pleading guilty over claims he persuaded his ex-wife to take speeding points for him in 2003'
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Interesting Links for 01-06-2012
Jun. 1st, 2012 05:00 pm- Robert Mugabe asked to be UN 'leader for tourism' | The Guardian
'The Zimbabwe president, accused of ethnic cleansing and bankrupting his country, asked to champion tourism'
- Free Wi-Fi to be made available at London Overground stations | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional
- Revealed: Yes Scotland used picture of actors to plug independence campaign.. and they weren't even Scots - The Daily Record
using 'the exact same stock image of 'supporters' as a health website'
- allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: UN Insists Mugabe Tourism Honour Not an Official Title
'insisted that no official honour or ambassadorial role has been bestowed on Mugabe or Sata. The UN says it is simply trying to encourage the African nations to promote tourism as a valuable source of revenue.'
- Labour to force Commons vote over Jeremy Hunt's handling of BSkyB bid | Politics | guardian.co.uk
'the party would call a vote in the House of Commons on whether Hunt's actions should be referred to the independent investigator on the ministerial code'
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2012
Jan. 5th, 2012 04:00 pm- How the Candidates Roll - Graphic - NYTimes.com
The modes of travel and the entourages of the Republican potential nominees vary widely.
- BBC News - Loch Ness is giant 'spirit level'
Does that mean if we bash it on the ground a few times it'll work better?
- Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization | Project Management
There was a time when it was important to get 100% utilisation of a company's computers, because they were so expensive. But now? That doesn't really work. And it doesn't work with people either.
- What Video Games Can Learn from Board Games
'right now board games invite, whereas video games only permit.'
- Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
The width of the booster rockets for the space shuttle is partially determined by the width of the arse of a Roman chariot horse.
- Babes of the BNP | VICE
The stupid, it burns. Particularly "I wouldn't mind them if they actually worked and didn't take all of our jobs" That's an impressive self-contradiction to fit into a single sentence. Some of the pictures may be mildly NSFW.
- Lord, spare us this wave of nerdy new scientists | This is Cornwall
Anti-elitism is making its way to the UK. Who needs all those physicists? Certainly not anyone who appreciates how MRI machines allow the easy detection or diagnosis of many sorts of health problem…
- From the Mailbag | Regretsy
Buyer disputes authenticity of the $2500 violin he's just bought? Paypal says to get a refund he must DESTROY THE VIOLIN!!!
- ‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid - Hayibo | Hayibo
After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’
- This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids | Colossal
A room done entirely in white. Many, many coloured stickers. Lots of children. The result? Something quite beautiful.
- BBC News — Q&A;: Assisted suicide
'A group of experts have called for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide.'
- Brits' Unpaid Overtime 'Worth A Million Jobs'
'Workers gave bosses nearly two billion hours of unpaid overtime last year'
- Can we run PC Pro on tablets? Live blog
Is it viable to write articles, answer email & update magazine's blog via tablets?
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Interesting Links for 09-12-2011
Dec. 9th, 2011 04:00 pm- BBC News - Who, What, Why: How do you reassemble shredded documents?
Governments and businesses have long used shredders to destroy sensitive documents. How easy is it to reassemble the pieces?
- London Dungeon Skeleton Turns Out To Be Genuine | Londonist
'Another week, another skeleton unearthed in London, this time not from the closet of a cabinet politician. A body in the London Dungeon has turned out to be real!'
- BBC News - Hillary Clinton declares 'gay rights are human rights'
'The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against gays and lesbians abroad by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform.'
- BBC News - In pictures: Manchester after an apocalypse
- Damn You Auto Correct! » The 25 Funniest Autocorrects Of DYAC’s First Year
- The arms company, the oligarch and the ex-PM's sister-in-law: lobby firm's Wikipedia hit list - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
'Bell Pottinger targeted the Wikipedia entry of Gordon Brown's sister-in-law, the environmental campaigner Clare Rewcas'tle Brown, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal
- BBC News - Make 'council bureaucrats' wear bowler hats says MP
'Council officials should be forced to wear bowler hats if proposals allowing them to clamp down on minor offences are approved, a Conservative MP says.'
- BBC News - Wikipedia investigates PR firm Bell Pottinger's edits
'Wikipedia has suspended at least 10 accounts linked to the public relations firm Bell Pottinger as it investigates allegations of content manipulation.'
- One Direction fans boo George Osborne over Christmas lights mix-up - Showbiz News - Digital Spy
'Rumours that the 'Gotta Be You' group were to make an appearance at the event in Knutsford circulated earlier this week, sparking an outraged reaction from the 3,000-strong crowd when their local MP turned up to flick the switch.'
- BBC News - Danny Alexander in 'ginger rodent' Christmas card
'Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, who was branded a ginger rodent by a Labour rival, has poked fun at the insult in his Christmas card.'
- BBC News - Oxford Circus Tube station evacuated by London police
A group of more than 200 DR Congo demonstrators have caused an emergency evacuation of Oxford Circus Tube station in central London, British Transport Police (BTP) has said.
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