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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 13-06-2014
Sep. 2nd, 2014 07:00 am- All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Blog | Tesla Motors
'Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.'
- Sales of toilet paper plummet after delivery of free copy of The Sun
"…do you know what’s better than wiping your arse on a copy of The Sun?Wiping your arse on a copy of the The Sun that Rupert Murdoch had to pay to give to you.”
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 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 15-08-2013
Aug. 15th, 2013 05:00 pm- Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories -- Vulture
'we generally demonize violent acts and violent work. We make them Other, and we just distance ourselves. They are Other, and they didn’t come from us, and we’re just going to stand over there and shake our heads sadly. And, moreover, anyone who gets closer to it in order to experience or understand it must be a freak.'
- Gmail Users Shouldn't Expect Privacy, Google Says In Filing : The Two-Way : NPR
- Newsnight strips "porn user" of her PhD - The Media Blog
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
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Interesting Links for 30-05-2013
May. 30th, 2013 05:00 pm- Arjem Choudary controversy sparks debate over TV censorship | UK news | guardian.co.uk
'Anti-terror law reviewer David Anderson QC says broadcasters should decide whether to show radicals on their channels'
Interesting Links for 02-05-2013
May. 2nd, 2013 05:00 pm- Top Ten Horrible Book Covers | Ramp.ie
Actually there's 34. But they're pretty funny.
- BBC News - MMR: How parents feel now about avoiding jabs
- Google Glass makes everything look like Knightmare
'Logan’s girlfriend Emma Bradford said: “We talked about buying a house and having kids but since he got these glasses his main goal has become finding a magical scroll.'
- How Not to Die.
When my mother was dying, her knowledge of the health system meant she could make her choices with open eyes and understanding. And I think we are better at having The Conversation here than they are in the US. But it's still something worth considering.
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2013
Apr. 9th, 2013 05:00 pm- Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette
'When a political leader dies, it is irresponsible in the extreme to demand that only praise be permitted but not criticisms.'
- Wearable Video Cameras, for Police Officers - NYTimes.com
- Alt Text: Magical Fruit Trees and the Sale of Digital Music — A Parable | Underwire | Wired.com
How much money does the anti-piracy efforts of the music industry make for *musicians* as opposed to the businessmen, lawyers, etc?
- Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
"When people don't see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That's not true."
- Budge: Facing up to Facebook scams
'A Facebook page is created, with an appeal for readers to like, comment or share …the people who started it, having quickly acquired tens of thousands of followers, sell the page. Now an advertiser has all those names and Facebook addresses'
- The 17-Year-Old Yahoo Paid $30 Million Did Not Build His Startup's App (Or Invent Its Technology) - Business Insider
- Google accused of anti-competitive Android rules - Telegraph
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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 05-03-2013
Mar. 5th, 2013 04:00 pm- The BBC Will Make You Sick | The Quackometer Blog
'How media reports of electrosensitivity may be responsible for electrosensitivity.'
Interesting Links for 02-03-2013
Mar. 2nd, 2013 04:00 pm- Creepily realistic body art
- China’s Paid Trolls: Meet the 50-Cent Party
'The Chinese government hires people to distort or deflect conversations on the web. Ai Weiwei persuades an “online commentator” to tell all.'
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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.'
Interesting Links for 09-02-2013
Feb. 9th, 2013 04:00 pm- Further Findus controversy as fish revealed not to have fingers
'The research took place yesterday when someone at home looked on the Internet at photos of a fish and photos of a fish finger.'
- WomCam whiteboards hit Rad Cam in radical revolution | The Tab Oxford
'Members of the public were photographed outside the Rad Cam and other locations holding whiteboards which read ‘I need feminism because…’'
- Fox News expert on solar energy: Germany gets "a lot more sun than we do." [VIDEO]
('virtually the entirety of the continental United States gets more sun than even the sunniest part of Germany')
- BBC News - Press regulation: it's back
'Just when you thought statutory press regulation had gone quiet, it has erupted back onto the Westminster stage.'
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2013
Jan. 24th, 2013 04:00 pm- X-Surface: Don't believe everything you read.
Journalism no longer appears to include even basic fact checking, as regards tech, anyways.
- Actual Facebook Graph Searches
Simultaneously amusing and worrying.
- Get ready for 'Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day' | Crave - CNET
- Private health contractor's staff told to cut 999 calls to meet targets | Society | The Guardian
'Leaked email from Serco managers tells workers to manipulate computer system to 'stop the clock' on emergency calls'
- Cat Transit System (CTS) | Because We Can
- Obama Urged to Resign Over Beyonce Scandal : The New Yorker
It worries me that I've grown so used to the level of anti-Obama retoric that it took me a while to be sure this was a parody. Poes Law is starting to apply to politics more and more.
- Government says mot-diese is proper French term for hashtag – The Connexion
THE French government has caused amusement on the internet by insisting the proper term for “hashtag” in French should be mot-dièse.
- 'Leave immediately': Britons in Benghazi warned to get out due to 'specific and imminent threat' - Africa - World - The Independent
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