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Interesting Links for 29-04-2016
Apr. 29th, 2016 01:00 pm- Zelo Street: Telegraph’s Junior Doctor Isn’t
Apparently he's a recently graduated foundation year doctor not yet at the point of being allowed to work on people alone.
Interesting Links for 27-06-2014
Sep. 2nd, 2014 10:00 pm- Fairly in depth piece on the phone hacking trial
and on the power that comes from throwing a *lot* of money at legal representation
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2013
Nov. 22nd, 2013 04:00 pm- The tube will run all night long on weekends from 2015 – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London
'On the other hand, TfL are closing every single ticket office on the tube' Reducing ticket office provision, I can see the argument for. Removing? Not so much.
- Scottish independence: Dr Who claim dismissed - The Scotsman
Finally, they're getting to the heart of things
- How a @totalprat duped the UK's media on Twitter
By pretending to live near the women who'd been held for 30 years. 'He said it had been "truly the funniest afternoon I have had in about three days"'
Interesting Links for 17-11-2013
Nov. 17th, 2013 04:00 pm- BBC Blogs - What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 years' headline?
From 2012, but the Express are doing it again this time
- Texas, other death penalty states scramble for lethal injection drugs - CNN.com
'A federal civil complaint in Texas claims the defendants may have falsified prescriptions, lied to pharmacies and perhaps even broken the law, but they're not drug runners. They're officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, responsible for executing death row inmates.'
- BBC News - Doctors and nurses may face jail for neglect
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Interesting Links for 04-11-2013
Nov. 4th, 2013 04:00 pm- BBC News - 'Notebooks went missing' amid phone-hacking probe
Surely Danny Boy knows better than to leave his Broadsword out back by the bins?
Interesting Links for 31-10-2013
Oct. 31st, 2013 04:00 pm- BBC News - Press regulation: Papers lose Privy Council injunction bid
'two judges refused them an injunction and said there were no grounds for a judicial review;
- Phone-hacking trial: three ex-News of the World staff plead guilty | UK news | theguardian.com
One of the major parts of the case appears to be Brooks and others running around hiding information about their awareness and support of the hacking.
- Russell, choosing to vote is the most British kind of revolution there is
'Robert Webb tells Russell Brand: your essay has made me rejoin the Labour party.'
- ISO 3103 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a standardized method for brewing tea
- Robot Hugs - Body Policing Police
"You and your cunt have a nice night now, ma'am." Potentially NSFW subject, but nothing explicit actually shown.
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2013
Aug. 6th, 2013 05:00 pm- 21 Painfully Awkward Band Photos
I'm worried by whatever is poling of of Carlos' bath. Particularly as it appears to have a dorsal fin.
- How The Sun got it wrong on green energy costs | Environment | theguardian.com
'The newspaper's bar chart using data from energy supplier npower distorts the cost to consumers of renewable energy'
- Children given lifelong ban on talking about fracking | Environment | The Guardian
Two Pennsylvanian children will live their lives under a gag order imposed under a $750,000 settlement
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2013
Jul. 4th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - Rupert Murdoch secret tapes: News Corp defends head
He says "It's the biggest inquiry ever, over next to nothing.", News Corp says ""Rupert Murdoch has shown understandable empathy with the staff and families affected". Yeah...
- BBC News - Shielding Commonwealth war graves from the ravages of time
- Why Rupert Murdoch tape was leaked - tearful journalists were angry | Media | guardian.co.uk
- The Danger in Demonizing Male Sexuality — The Good Men Project
'From the get-go, we are teaching our kids to fear male sexuality, and to repress female sexuality.'
- BBC News - Political parties shelve funding reform talks
"Labour would not move on trade union funding, while the Conservatives would not make concessions on big donations" Liberal Democrats stood in front of a small china pig and growled at anyone who came near.
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2013
Jul. 1st, 2013 05:00 pm- Non-baby news events crunched into this week
'A BBC spokesman said: “We’re working with the Illuminati and other shady puppeteers to accelerate world happenings and ‘clear the decks for baby’.'
- BBC News - Web porn: Just how much is there?
'Many things in porn are exaggerated, including the statistics regularly quoted to show how much pornography is on the web.'
- BBC News - The rise of the extreme house-sitter
- BBC News - Smethwick fire: Chinese lanterns blamed for 'largest blaze'
'A huge fire involving 100,000 tonnes of plastic recycling material, thought to have been sparked by Chinese lanterns, has been contained say firefighters.'
Interesting Links for 08-05-2013
May. 8th, 2013 05:00 pm- Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study | The Raw Story
'Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) said in 2010 that he opposed action on climate change because “the Earth will end only when God declares it to be over.” He is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.'
- BBC News - Solar Impulse plane lands in Phoenix
A plane powered only by the Sun has completed the first leg of a journey that aims to cross the US.
- CNN Holds Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot - The Atlantic Wire
Interesting Links for 22-03-2013
Mar. 22nd, 2013 04:00 pm- Labour abstention on workfare bill prompts party infighting
Quite why Labour is helping the government cover their arse with retroactive legislation to make the illegal become legal, I'm not sure.
- MPs profits on taxpayer-funded second homes stay secret for now - Telegraph
'Profits made by scores of MPs on their taxpayer-funded second homes have not been published after a legal challenge' (which sources believe was paid for by a millionaire potential Tory leadership candidate.
- Planning minister’s war on the countryside - Telegraph
'Property developers have been privately promised that planning laws will be liberalised again within weeks to allow them to begin a house-building boom backed by this week’s Budget.'
- Twitter to fight hacking by boosting login security | Technology | guardian.co.uk
'firm to introduce 'two-factor authentication' system'
- Apple introducing extra protection against hackers | Technology | guardian.co.uk
'Two-factor authentication for iCloud and other services aims to help guard against hackers trying to access peoples' accounts'
- Why It's So Annoying to Overhear Someone's Cellphone Conversation
Because it's a puzzle you can't solve, and thus can't ignore.
- Trans woman commits suicide after being bullied by the Daily Mail » Zinnia Jones
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2013
Mar. 19th, 2013 04:00 pm- 'New Banksy' appears at site of 'stolen' mural - ITV News
"A stencil image of a rat holding a card saying 'Why?' "
- National Security Letters ruled unconstitutional • The Register
'A federal court judge has ruled that National Security Letters (NSLs) – the controversial, ultra-clandestine surveillance tools used by the FBI to gather information on individuals – are unconstitutional and must be halted.'
- Don’t let Jedi Knights hold weddings - Free Church - Scotland - Scotsman.com
May your marriage be with you, always.
- Nadine Dorries: Tory party is looking 'silly and ridiculous' for suspending me - Telegraph
Does she really think these comments will help? Nope. She thinks they'll get her media attention.
- Train Wi-Fi and mobile access expected to be in Osborne's budget giveaway | Politics | The Guardian
Some 12 out of 25 rail franchise operators still don't have Wi-Fi – chancellor expected to offer an inducement to them to install it
- ‘Unwise to block free speech law’ at Stormont - Headlines - Belfast Newsletter
'he could think of no reason for Stormont blocking the Defamation Bill from Northern Ireland other than that politicians wanted “to be able to sue newspapers more readily”.'
- 10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter | Wired Business | Wired.com
- Innovator Under 35: Danielle Fong, 24 - MIT Technology Review
'Making clean energy pay off by storing it as squeezed air '
- Computer lessons in Vietnam
Computer classes start at age 7, programming starts at age 9
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Interesting Links for 18-03-2013
Mar. 18th, 2013 04:00 pm- How to do madness: An illustrated guide « zedkat
'how the media presents mental health'
- Inquest to open into death of prisoner convicted of stealing gingerbread man | Society | The Guardian
- BBC News - Richard O'Brien: ‘I'm 70% man'
"There are people who are hardwired male and there are people who are hardwired female, but most of us are on that continuum"
- Fujitsu smartphone can check your pulse - Telegraph
Bit creepy, no?
- Global warming denial: Debunking misleading climate change claims by David Rose.
The Mail on Sunday, getting it wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2013
Mar. 12th, 2013 04:00 pm- Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' - medical chief
If anything, the risk seems rather larger than terrorism, in the UK at least.
- Capital rules for banks 'still need to be tougher', says Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards - Telegraph
- Dolphins may be calling each other by name - CNN.com
- Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use | Ars Technica
'Do iPads or Nexus 7s scare and confuse you? ePad Femme is here to help!'
- The Sunday Times jails its source » Spectator Blogs
'My Guardian colleague Marina Hyde said that the lesson of the Sunday Times’ treatment of Pryce was that no one should talk to journalists.'
- Rape in the headlines: is there a war on? | Another angry woman
Trigger warning for rape, unsurprisingly enough. Discussion/disection of rape in the media ATM
- The religious right are wrong: all women have the right to choose | Liz Ford | Global development | guardian.co.uk
- KGB man will not assist British inquest into Alexander Litvinenko - Telegraph
'chief suspect in the poisoning of former Russian security services officer Alexander Litvinenko has withdrawn cooperation from the inquest into his death and accused Scotland Yard of political bias.'
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2013
Feb. 21st, 2013 04:00 pm- Prime minister's private dinners net Tories £700,000 | Politics | The Guardian
'Conservatives accused of taking cash for government access as Labour insists receptions for its donors are different'
- How one man's lies almost destroyed the comics industry
'A new investigation of Wertham's papers by University of Illinois information studies professor Carol Tilley has revealed that the psychiatrist fabricated, exaggerated, and selectively edited his data to bolster his argument that comics caused antisocial behavior.'
- Why do we let the Prudocracy police our sexual fantasies?
'I masturbate. You masturbate. Let's not get our knickers in such a twist about it'
- Juries could be open to more scrutiny, two top lawyers say - Telegraph
'Lord Woolf, a former Lord Chief Justice, and Lord Macdonald, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, said the system could be improved after a jury was criticised for showing "fundamental deficits of understanding" during the trial of Vicky Pryce.'
