Interesting Links for 24-05-2016
- Fascism crushed by 0.6 percent
"This comprehensive defeat proves that fascism can never win, at least once postal votes are taken into account."
Interesting Links for 09-05-2015
- The country is screwed, the electorate is evil ... but here are nine reasons to be cheerful
'We live on a coldly rotating speck in an ocean of total nothingness, and nothing we do can ever truly matter. All is blackness and abstract cruelty. There is no point to us, and soon we will be gone. The universe will spin on, oblivious.'
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2014
- Emily Brothers, the first openly transgender person to run for Westminster from a major party
- A brief history of trans parliamentarians « Complicity
Corrects the previous post with a list of other trans candidates
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2013
- Do four out of five people really believe in prayer? | Science | guardian.co.uk
No. 4/5 people are able to think up an answer to "What would you pray for?"
- David Miliband to quit as MP, taking up dream charity job in New York triggering South Shields by-election - Mirror Online
'intends to step down with immediate effect, triggering a by-election in May'
- BBC News - Brick up spare rooms, urges Labour MP Frank Field
'said landlords should "brick up" doors and "knock down the walls" in defiance.'
- Video: water appears frozen in sine wave - Boing Boing
- Police Issue ‘Scratch and Sniff’ Cards to Help Weed Out Marijuana Growers | TIME.com
- PGN-The Philadelphia Gay News. Phila gay news. philly news - Archive looking for Philly gay couple from 1950s ceremony
'they likely eagerly awaited the return of their photos of the big day — which they may soon finally receive, nearly 60 years later.'
- 21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous
'pay much, much more than other countries do for the exact same things'
- Ed Miliband to join Scooby Doo Gang
'admitted last night that his brother David becoming the head of International Rescue is more impressive than him becoming prime minister. But he now believes he can leapfrog his brother by joining an organisation that has a much better 'hit-rate' in apprehending evil-doers'
- South Shields: Why bother with a by-election?
It's been Labour since 1935, and in that time, only one MP there has had a local connection, he was the only one from there to not become a cabinet minster.
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Interesting Links for 16-03-2013
- U.S. drone strikes violate Pakistan's sovereignty and shatter tribal structures - U.N | Reuters
- All-women shortlists save Labour from near-total male domination
'Party will use female-only lists in choosing 52 parliamentary candidates – after men win 17 out of 18 open contests'
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2013
- 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 12-10-2012
- BBC News - World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row
'Ms Lachowicz's liking for back-stabbing and poison in WoW raise questions about her "fitness for office", [Maine Republicans] claim.'
- 'Softball-Sized Eyeball' Washes Up In Florida; Can You I.D. It? : The Two-Way : NPR
- BBC News - New York's High Line: Why cities want parks in the sky
'Once an elevated freight railway track, New York's High Line is now an oasis for pedestrians.'
- BBC News - Looking back to the future of video games
'many developers have been looking backwards of late and spending their time resurrecting games that are five, 10 and 20 years old.'
- Terrifying French children's books - in pictures | Books | guardian.co.uk
They look awesome!
- Terrifying French children's books (with images) · jennycolgan · Storify
'But where is papa?' - more similar stuff
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Interesting Links for 19-05-2012
- Does House of Lords reform affect Conservative election hopes? | Unlock Democracy
Conservatives: "Waaah! We lost votes! Lords reform is awful!" And then you look at the polling numbers, and see their polling numbers were dropping for over a month and a half before that, due to the Murdoch/Brooks links, the Budget, the Health and Social Care Bill, the Jeremy Hunt stuff…
- Monmouth to be world's first ‘Wikipedia town’ - Telegraph
'‘Monmouthpedia’ project includes 500 new articles in 25 languages, as Wikipedia seeks to offer comprehensive coverage of an entire town.'
Interesting Links for 06-12-2011
- The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says - The Huffington Post
'Last week, on the network's "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood's so-called liberal agenda.'
- AFP: Russian bloggers fume over pre-election cyber attacks
'"It's very easy to figure out that Russia is having elections tomorrow: Livejournal is down," wrote Nadia Ivanova.'
- News Desk: Russian Elections: Faking It : The New Yorker
Interesting account from a journalist at a Russian polling station count.