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Interesting Links for 26-04-2014
Apr. 26th, 2014 01:00 pm- Zero-hours crackdown plan unveiled by Labour leader - BBC News
Reading the tenses of a story going into a future speech's contents in exacting detail gets rather confusing. "[Blah] would be harder" he will say, adding "…"
- Physics-exploiting axe splits wood in record time | News | Geek.com
SCIENCE AXE!
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2013
Aug. 16th, 2013 05:00 pm- www.themediablog.co.uk
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.
- 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
''graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read 'antisocial.''
- 27 Pictures That Will Change The Way You Look At The World
Ahh, data :)
- 'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side' | World news | The Guardian
'French lawyer Jacques Vergès has represented some of the 20th century's most notorious criminals.'
- Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear | World news | The Guardian
Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2013
Jul. 17th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC - Newsbeat - US issues 'athlete' visas to League of Legends players
'effectively recognising the video game as a professional sport.'
- Why Are UK Trans People Going on About a “Spousal Veto?” | Sarah Brown's Blog
Good summary of issues with the Spousal Veto in the Same Sex Marriage Bill.
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2013
Jun. 21st, 2013 06:00 pm- Eyeball-licking: the fetish that is making Japanese teenagers sick | Life and style | The Guardian
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Shadowrun 5th Edition release date announced
July 11th for PDF, August for print
- BBC News - 'Naked rambler' Stephen Gough jailed for flouting Asbo
Is he really that much of a problem that he's worth the six years of jail time he's been sentenced to so far?
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2013
May. 9th, 2013 05:00 pm- Ludicrous medieval pantomime may explain UK’s problems
'the bizarre 17th century pantomime could indicate a desire to live in a comfortingly demented fantasy world.'
- Opinion: Save criminal legal aid
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Interesting Links for 14-04-2013
Apr. 14th, 2013 05:00 pm- The forgotten prisoners of America's own Gulag - The Independent
166 inmates remain. 3 convicted, 30 to face trial. 50 in legal no-man's-land, too dangerous to release but against whom there is not enough evidence to prosecute. And then there are 86 who have been cleared for release, yet aren't released.
Interesting Links for 11-04-2013
Apr. 11th, 2013 05:00 pm- Amsterdam To Fly Gay Rainbow Flag During Russian President Vladimir Putin's Visit
- After 27 years of burglaries, 'North Pond Hermit' is arrested | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Living alone in the woods for nearly three decades. Seemling for no other reason than inertia.
- Margaret Thatcher: This is a state funeral, and that’s a mistake - Telegraph
'The decision to acknowledge Lady Thatcher, but not Clement Attlee, makes the Queen appear partisan and is out of kilter with the impartiality of the modern monarchy'
Interesting Links for 29-01-2013
Jan. 29th, 2013 04:00 pm- BBC News - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 'to abdicate for son'
'to make a televised announcement, amid speculation in local media that she will abdicate the throne'
- The value of trigger warnings « Another angry woman
Pretty much describes why I use trigger warnings; 'If I’ve helped even one person avoid pain, then I am glad. It’s a little thing for me to do, which can make the all the difference for some people.'
- Your Rights and Mobile Fingerprinting « Netpol
Many police forces are now using mobile fingerprint scanners. Know your rights as regards 'em.
- Target Practice – Lords of the Blog
'are we not shooting ourselves in the foot by continuing to pay for a rifle range in the House of Lords?'
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Interesting Links for 22-01-2013
Jan. 22nd, 2013 04:00 pm- Troubling number of women denied constitutional rights based on pregnancy | The Raw Story
'a wide range of cases in which pregnant women were arrested and detained not only if they ended a pregnancy or expressed an intention to end a pregnancy, but also after suffering unintentional pregnancy loss.'
Interesting Links for 17-12-2012
Dec. 17th, 2012 04:00 pm- Jack Hart obituary | Politics | The Guardian
'Signals specialist who fought Thatcher's ban on unions at GCHQ'
- cryptography - Why not use larger cipher keys? - IT Security
'[this implies] brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.'
Interesting Links for 08-10-2012
Oct. 8th, 2012 05:00 pm- George Osborne: workers of the world unite...and give up your employment rights - Telegraph
'the Chancellor today invited employees to give up their workplace rights in exchange for tax-free shares in their companies'
- Bedfordshire Local News, Local News Headlines in Bedford | Bedfordshire Newspaper Online | No dear, that wasn't the pot plant I had in mind!
An elderly couple who bought a plant from a car boot sale got more than they bargained for after the shrubbery turned out to be the ‘biggest cannabis plant’ police had seen.
- BHA submits response to legal case over whether Government must publish list of proposed Free Schools
‘We believe that an important part of being able to scrutinise proposals for new schools, not least of all religious schools, is by knowing what schools have been proposed. Currently that is not the case with Free Schools until after the Government has backed them.’
- How To Steal The Space Shuttle: A Step-By-Step Guide
Via @foundthings
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Interesting Links for 28-08-2012
Aug. 28th, 2012 05:00 pm- Amazon Customers Go Rogue, Hilariously Review the Bic's Idiotic Pen for Women
Pens! For Women! So they can write things! (It'll never catch on)
- ‘Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception’ Now The Law In Arizona | The New Civil Rights Movement
Interesting Links for 24-08-2012
Aug. 24th, 2012 05:00 pm- Some light on a key legal issue surrounding the Assange case | Love and Garbage – some commonplace musings
'As a result of this crucial case it is the right of any accused person who has breached bail conditions and is located in England to tell the prosecuting authorities where, when, and how he or she should be questioned.'
- How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy: Scientific American
'Of the 10 most pirated movies of 2011, guess how many of them are available to rent online, as I write this in midsummer 2012? Zero.'
- If 'Dark Knight Rises' Was 10 Times Shorter and More Honest | Cracked.com
- Conservative Party raise £1million through secretive supper clubs - Mirror Online
The system allows the party to trouser the cash without naming the wealthy backers it comes from
- Ashcroft tells David Cameron to defy Tory right on gay marriage - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
"People who oppose gay marriage would remember that he was in favour of it before the going got tough. Those who support it would see that he abandoned the idea in the face of a determined minority. Those who don't much care either way would notice another flip-flop."
- Constitutional Reform and Prince Harry's Balls
The reason that the son of Prince Harry has an outside chance of being Head of State and mine doesn’t is that Prince Harry has Magic Balls
- SearchTheMoney.com
Website looking at where Tory MPs get their donations. NB: Is a partisan website paid for by unions that fund the Labour Party. Still, some interesting stuff there, and may help the push towards party funding reform.
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2012
Jul. 4th, 2012 05:00 pm- BBC News - Acta: Controversial anti-piracy agreement rejected by EU
'A total of 478 MEPs voted against the deal, with 39 in favour. There were 165 abstentions.'
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