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Interesting Links for 24-01-2013
- 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