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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 26-09-2012
Sep. 26th, 2012 05:00 pm- Rush Limbaugh: Feminism shrinks penises - Salon.com
'the average size of [a male's] member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years — it has to be the feminazis, the chickification and everything else.'
- Future Projects - Angus Reid
'This project, built around the poem Call for a Constitution, stems from a personal quest to initiate a discussion around a constitution for Scotland.'
- Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' Next Year, Says U.K.'s National Pig Association
'With pork costs rising, Great Britain is facing a bacon and sausage shortage as pig farmers cut back on herd size. But the problem may soon become global.'
- Rick Perry Blames Satan For Separation Of Church And State | TPMMuckraker
'Rick Perry shared his thoughts on the origins of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. Rather than tracing the idea to the nation’s founders, Perry warned of a more nefarious source: Satan.'
- Clegg hints at split with Tories on Leveson - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
'Nick Clegg privately told members of the Hacked Off campaign group, including the comedian Steve Coogan, that there was nothing in the Coalition Agreement that prevented him from taking a different position on press regulation from the Conservatives.'
- Google Seaview
Rather awesome google 'streetview' of a coral reef.
- Outrage at CIA's deadly 'double tap' drone attacks - Americas - World - The Independent
'initial strikes are now followed up by further missiles in a tactic which lawyers and campaigners say is killing an even greater number of civilians. The tactic has cast such a shadow of fear over strike zones that rescuers often wait for hours before daring to visit the scene of an attack.'
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2012
Apr. 27th, 2012 05:00 pm- Will Rupert Murdoch's reputation survive Leveson's verdict? | Media | guardian.co.uk
'Man who made millions out of paying people to ask difficult questions finally faced questioners he could not cope with'
- TCR Seige: Man Arrested After Tottenham Court Road Stand Off
They think it's all over. Is it, now?
- George Galloway slams rumours he has converted to Islam | Metro.co.uk
- Netherlands set to ban tourists from cannabis cafes under new ruling | Metro.co.uk
'Government officials plan to introduce a 'weed pass' for its citizens which they will need to enter city cafes.'
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2012
Jan. 20th, 2012 04:00 pm- Met spent £35,000 to find out time - The Independent
'110,000 calls to the speaking clock over the last 2 years'
- Sorry day for Murdoch as High Court hears hacking apology - The Independent
'lawyer says more victims emerge every day '
- Man threatens students at debate on sharia law - The Independent
'told they would be "hunted down and killed"'
- Insane Entitlement: EMI Sues Irish Gov't For Not Passing SOPA-Like Censorship Law | Techdirt
- Muslim College Student Reports Sexual Harassment, Gets Reported To FBI For Terrorism And Expelled | ThinkProgress
- "What if..." Movies reimagined for another time & place on the Behance Network
- Feds Shut Down Megaupload.com File-Sharing Website | Techland | TIME.com
- Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
- 1st Science Fiction Movie Filmed in Space Stays Underground | Space.com
NASA won't let him release it publicly, alas.
- Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free | Motherboard
EMI owns the rights, it turns out.
- Unexpurgated atheist FAQ
'Although these are my personal answers, I am confident that I speak for all atheists…' (Potentially offensive, but also pretty funny)
- Anonymous Shuts Down The MPAA, RIAA And Other Websites - CinemaBlend.com
- Sex is cheap: Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even when they're failing in life. - Slate Magazine
- GOOD RIDDANCE - Slate Magazine
'The long-overdue movement to abandon Caps Lock.'
- The New Muslim suffragettes of the United Kingdom
An increasing number of Muslim women activists are receiving death threats, fatwas and even hate-mail from extremist male and female Muslims. Their crime: Rescuing fellow Muslim women from violent and life threatening situations.
- BBC News - Leveson Inquiry evidence can be anonymous, judges rule
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Interesting Links for 01-12-2011
Dec. 1st, 2011 04:00 pm- Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'I will fight tooth and nail over the idea that there should never, ever be even a trace of the supernatural in the world of Scooby-Doo.'
- Gavin Mackey's Pokemon Redesigns Will Haunt Your Nightmares [Art] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'In Mackey's art, [pokemon] take an insidious turn toward resembling Renée French subjects or that creepy baby in David Lynch's Eraserhead.'
- Comics, Everybody: The History of Captain America Explained - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'Curt Franklin and artist Chris Haley of Let's Be Friends Again have broken down the history of Marvel Comics' esteemed Sentinel of Liberty. Read all about the fabled ascent of Steve Rogers from weakling to Nazi-smasher to Avengers Leader to head of S.H.I.E.L.D'
- EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language
'Yves Bot, an advocate-general at the Court, has stated that functions provided by computer programs, as well as the programming languages they're written in, do not receive copyright protection.'
- US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
'After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods.'
- BBC News - Fahrenheit 451 becomes e-book despite author's feelings
Best line in the article? This: '"We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now," he said.'
- Paul McMullan lays bare newspaper dark arts at Leveson inquiry | Media | The Guardian
''Privacy is for paedos," declared former News of the World man and tabloid veteran Paul McMullan in the midst of his evidence at the Leveson inquiry. He had only just observed that "in 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never found anybody doing any good" – statements that together amounted to a credo for the brutal Sunday tabloid world of which McMullan became the chief spokesman in the otherwise stifled confines of courtroom 73.'
- BBC News - Is £40,000 really a liveable income for families in the UK?
Perhaps a bad idea for them to lead with the family where the lady of the house "spends £10,000 every couple of years to buy a new car and likes to go on two or three package holidays a year." and yet complains of money being tight. The later couple who's café collapsed, leaving them with lots of debt, that I can more emphasise with.
- BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps • The Register
'…Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.'
- BBC News - Ministers announce U-turn on mobility benefit cut
'Controversial plans to axe some benefit payments to disabled people living in care homes are being dropped.' Very glad to see this, as the plan to drop it felt very much like "If you're in a care home, you can stay there, you don't need to see the outside world"
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Interesting Links for 7-11-2011
Nov. 8th, 2011 01:53 am- Judge Declines Universal Music Group's Bid to Dismiss Class Action Over Digital Revenue | Billboard.biz
'A federal judge in California is allowing a big class action lawsuit to go forward against Universal Music Group that alleges the record label has underpaid royalties on digital downloads and ringtones. Spearheaded by Rob Zombie and the estate of Rick James, the consolidated class action seeks damages that could rise to the billions of dollars.' - bart_calendar: Breaking News!
'The GOP primary contest was thrown into chaos today when presidential hopeful Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, Shield of Lannisport and Warden of the West, announced that frontrunner Herman Cain is not actually an American citizen.' - News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers | Media | The Guardian
'The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.'
