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Interesting Links for 08-06-2016
Jun. 8th, 2016 01:00 pm- EU Referendum: Statistics regulator loses patience with Leave campaign over '£350m a week' EU cost figure
What's that? The bad guys in the referendum are pushing a lie based on hundreds of millions? That sounds rather familiar…
Interesting Links for 12-05-2016
May. 12th, 2016 01:00 pm- Net cafe refugee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Randomly came across this on Wikipedia - it being cheaper in Japan to spend a night in a cybercafe than in an apartment or hostel.
Interesting Links for 19-09-2015
Sep. 19th, 2015 01:00 pm- Profound Decisions - Equality And Diversity
Doing it right. The games are created settings, so they can be gender neutral.
- Lidl can only afford living wage because of their extortionate pricing, insist business leaders
Interesting Links for 09-07-2015
Jul. 9th, 2015 01:00 pm- Tonight's Tube Strike Is Entirely Justified
It's more about needing limits on night work than the pay issues, and TFL made its last offer too late for the Unions to consult their members on it. Article is a point of view, but seems a fair point.
- LIVING WAGE FOUNDATION RESPONSE TO BUDGET 2015
“Is this really a Living Wage? The Living Wage is calculated according to the cost of living whereas the Low Pay Commission calculates a rate according to what the market can bear. Without a change of remit for the Low Pay Commission this is effectively a higher National Minimum Wage and not a Living Wage.”
Interesting Links for 15-11-2014
Nov. 15th, 2014 02:00 pm- Waiters face sack if they ask diners for cash tips
Well, I'll be defaulting to cash tips from now on. And probably somewhat avoiding the chain restaurants that do this shit.
Interesting Links for 03-09-2014
Sep. 5th, 2014 06:00 pm- Teenagers hack ATM by bothering to read the instructions
Google instructions. See if they've changed the default passcode. Don't steal money, just set the welcome screen to say it's been hacked, and tell the bank. Realise you're late for your next school lesson…
- A PSA About Nude Photos
'*Tasers you* *steals your shoes* SHOULDN’T WEAR SHOES BRO' Well put. It's theft. But because its of women, and because there's a sexual/titillation element, the victim blaming suddenly appears.
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2014
Sep. 4th, 2014 02:00 pm- Women's sanitary products are now being taxed as 'luxury items'
Whilst disposable razors for men aren't.
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 07-06-2014
Sep. 2nd, 2014 01:00 am- New Statesman | Tactical voting against Ukip is bad news for Farage
The Newark by-election saw centre-left voters hold their noses and back the Tories to stop Ukip.
- The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers
And one day, they shall rise up, their shovels honed to a razor edge on the gravel they were buried in, inexorably driving toward us on their caterpillar tracks…
- D-day anniversary: emotional swansong for UK veterans of Normandy
We will remember them.
Interesting Links for 21-05-2014
May. 21st, 2014 01:00 pm- Will UKIP make me Richer, or will UKIP make me Poorer?
AKA 'flat taxes are regressive'
- Disabled students could be 'shut out' by government cuts
Some of the support I got through the Disabled Students Allowance, particularly the PDA it got me, were a real help in getting myself organised, actually managing to make all the things I was supposed to, etc. I think I'd've had a much harder time without them.
- What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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Interesting Links for 30-04-2014
Apr. 30th, 2014 01:00 pm- Deadlands TV Series
Microsoft is planning on making TV under the Xbox brand (presumably available on all their devices). And they're looking at making the Weird West be one of their starting shows. Buckle up partners, this could be a wild ride…
- £50 notes no longer illegal tender
"Check old attaché cases, duffel bags and the emergency stash for when the shit goes down to make sure you don’t end up tens of thousands out of pocket"
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Interesting Links for 04-02-2014
Feb. 4th, 2014 12:00 pm- Boris Johnson, not Bob Crow, is the one behaving terribly over the tube strike|Comment is free
'little is said of London's mayor breaking his promise not to close ticket offices'
- Ministers could slap VAT on Bitcoin trades
