Interesting Links for 30-04-2013
Apr. 30th, 2013 05:00 pm- Beware the rise of the government scientists turned lobbyists | CommentIsFree - George Monbiot
- 30 July – UK copyright: Accessing Orphan Works | Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
A response to the Register thing on 'your photos belong to everyone now' thing I shared yesterday. I probably give this more weight, partly because El Reg is unreliable, but also because I'm told the particular Reg reporter is especially bad.
- Jobseekers made to carry out bogus psychometric tests | Society | guardian.co.uk
- What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? | Greenheart GamesGreenheart Games
In said game, the copies put on torrent sites (by the makers) had a crippling level of piracy make it harder to do well in the game.
- CosMARXpolitan
'Your va-jay-jay called! It wants to talk about anarcho-syndicalism'
- Train Loop - What If? - XKCD
'i will diminish, and go into the west, and remain a train'
- On the verge of testing human long term memory device and seizure prevention
- Overton window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'a political theory that describes as a narrow "window" the range of ideas that the public will find acceptable, and that states that the political viability of an idea is defined primarily by this rather than by politicians' individual preferences'