Interesting Links for 25-02-2014
- Batman (military) - Wikipedia
'an officer's batman was also in charge of the officer's "bat-horse"'
- A Farscape movie is in the works
Carrying on from the comics, partially about John & Aeryn's son, apparently
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2013
- BBC News - Decriminalise drugs, inquiry by cross-party peers says
- Procrastination Is Not Laziness | Thought Catalog
'It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.'
- Dr Helen Pankhurst: 'I ask a class if they’re feminists and there's silence' - Profiles - People - The Independent
- "Batman" helps police inquiry | Calendar - ITV News
'"The person who brought the wanted man into the station was dressed in a full batman outfit. His identity, however, remains unknown"'
- Human rights… I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
'Tory ministers plot Human Rights Act repeal'
- Government to try 'crowd sourcing' key policies to see 'What Works' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
- Jason O Mahony » Blog Archive » Why Canada, Australia and New Zealand should join the European Union.
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Interesting Links for 24-08-2012
- Some light on a key legal issue surrounding the Assange case | Love and Garbage – some commonplace musings
'As a result of this crucial case it is the right of any accused person who has breached bail conditions and is located in England to tell the prosecuting authorities where, when, and how he or she should be questioned.'
- How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy: Scientific American
'Of the 10 most pirated movies of 2011, guess how many of them are available to rent online, as I write this in midsummer 2012? Zero.'
- If 'Dark Knight Rises' Was 10 Times Shorter and More Honest | Cracked.com
- Conservative Party raise £1million through secretive supper clubs - Mirror Online
The system allows the party to trouser the cash without naming the wealthy backers it comes from
- Ashcroft tells David Cameron to defy Tory right on gay marriage - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
"People who oppose gay marriage would remember that he was in favour of it before the going got tough. Those who support it would see that he abandoned the idea in the face of a determined minority. Those who don't much care either way would notice another flip-flop."
- Constitutional Reform and Prince Harry's Balls
The reason that the son of Prince Harry has an outside chance of being Head of State and mine doesn’t is that Prince Harry has Magic Balls
- SearchTheMoney.com
Website looking at where Tory MPs get their donations. NB: Is a partisan website paid for by unions that fund the Labour Party. Still, some interesting stuff there, and may help the push towards party funding reform.