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Interesting Links for 27-01-2017
Jan. 27th, 2017 12:00 pm- The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned - The Washington Post
Abandoning a sinking ship?
Interesting Links for 14-07-2015
Jul. 14th, 2015 01:00 pm- Tories consider making people pay into savings accounts to cover periods of illness or unemployment
I believe "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers" covers my opinions on this. The Tories already trying to rip up the social safety net.
Interesting Links for 11-07-2015
Jul. 11th, 2015 01:00 pm- Welsh assembly asked about UFOs
Response: “jang vIDa je due luq. ‘ach ghotvam’e’ QI’yaH-devolved qaS.”
Interesting Links for 18-09-2014
Sep. 18th, 2014 01:00 pm- 10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore
- What will happen if Scotland votes Yes?
Answers to important questions as we wait for Referendum day to dawn.
- Bus strike - Transport for London
Bus strikes tomorrow and Monday in South West London.
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Interesting Links for 06-09-2014
Sep. 6th, 2014 01:00 pm- All-male interview panels scrapped as Whitehall’s ‘macho culture' is tackled
'The long-standing gender imbalance at the top of the civil service that has proved remarkably resistant to change'
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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 18-03-2014
Mar. 18th, 2014 12:00 pm- BBC News - US government set to give up net oversight powers
'asked net overseer Icann to work out how to shift control from the US government to an alternative body …wants the successor controlling body to be made up of both private companies and government representatives.'
Interesting Links for 08-01-2014
Jan. 8th, 2014 12:00 pm- Satanic Temple Unveils Design For 7-foot Statue In Oklahoma
'The Satanic Temple maintains that the Oklahoma Legislature's decision to authorize a privately funded Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statue.'
- The British Punk Band That Fooled Reagan, Thatcher And The CIA - The Daily Beast
- The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
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Interesting Links for 26-10-2013
Oct. 26th, 2013 05:00 pm- When a skeletal horse is a good thing
Awesome, if perhaps creepy, photos of a horse with its skeleton painted upon it.
- Judges find DWP ‘fitness for work’ test breaches the Equality Act and is illegal | Vox Political
- DfE confirms: the schools Gove said he visited don’t exist | Local Schools Network
Interesting Links for 07-09-2013
Sep. 7th, 2013 05:00 pm- UK's lowest-paid employees to be classed as 'not working enough' | Politics | The Guardian
'One million people could be pushed to earn more – or have their benefits cut'
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Interesting Links for 18-07-2013
Jul. 18th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - How Scientology changed the internet
- Of Peaches and Cream: besturlonhere: June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper...
'Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit."'
- Call to broaden register of lobbyists as new figures show extent of meetings | Politics | The Guardian
'Business ministers held 988 meetings with outside organisations in 2012, and just two with a formally defined lobbying company' To put it another way, the members of the PRCA (lobbying industry body) would be covered by the register, but if the PRCA itself lobbied, it wouldn't be.
- How did dinosaurs have sex? - Australian Geographic
'For an animal the size of Tyrannosaurus (14m long) to mate effectively, the male organ would need be in the order of at least 2m long, and a lot more if it happened to be cork-screw shaped like a duck’s.'
- Migrants needed to pay for NHS spending or Britain will go broke, says OBR - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
Immigrants are usually working age, and most of them do work, and thus pay tax. A lot of government spending is on children and the elderly, who are generally not paying much tax at that age. Thus, if net migration drops significantly, the deficit is likely to increase.
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2013
Mar. 27th, 2013 04:00 pm- Do four out of five people really believe in prayer? | Science | guardian.co.uk
No. 4/5 people are able to think up an answer to "What would you pray for?"
- David Miliband to quit as MP, taking up dream charity job in New York triggering South Shields by-election - Mirror Online
'intends to step down with immediate effect, triggering a by-election in May'
- BBC News - Brick up spare rooms, urges Labour MP Frank Field
'said landlords should "brick up" doors and "knock down the walls" in defiance.'
- Video: water appears frozen in sine wave - Boing Boing
- Police Issue ‘Scratch and Sniff’ Cards to Help Weed Out Marijuana Growers | TIME.com
- PGN-The Philadelphia Gay News. Phila gay news. philly news - Archive looking for Philly gay couple from 1950s ceremony
'they likely eagerly awaited the return of their photos of the big day — which they may soon finally receive, nearly 60 years later.'
- 21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous
'pay much, much more than other countries do for the exact same things'
- Ed Miliband to join Scooby Doo Gang
'admitted last night that his brother David becoming the head of International Rescue is more impressive than him becoming prime minister. But he now believes he can leapfrog his brother by joining an organisation that has a much better 'hit-rate' in apprehending evil-doers'
- South Shields: Why bother with a by-election?
It's been Labour since 1935, and in that time, only one MP there has had a local connection, he was the only one from there to not become a cabinet minster.
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2013
Mar. 20th, 2013 04:00 pm- Emergency Compliment Generator
'A steady supply of Emergency Compliments to be used at times of great insecurity.'
- IDS' emergency jobseeker law sparks civil liberties outrage
Retroactive legislation to cover the government's arse? No thanks.
- TOM THE DANCING BUG: ...And Who Shall Save God-Man? - Boing Boing
(from a rock he has created that's so heavy he cannot lift it)
- The Best Of The Internet's Reaction To George Osborne Joining Twitter
'everyone is determined to give him a warm welcome'
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2013
Mar. 4th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - Decriminalise drugs, inquiry by cross-party peers says
- Procrastination Is Not Laziness | Thought Catalog
'It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.'
- Dr Helen Pankhurst: 'I ask a class if they’re feminists and there's silence' - Profiles - People - The Independent
- "Batman" helps police inquiry | Calendar - ITV News
'"The person who brought the wanted man into the station was dressed in a full batman outfit. His identity, however, remains unknown"'
- Human rights… I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
'Tory ministers plot Human Rights Act repeal'
- Government to try 'crowd sourcing' key policies to see 'What Works' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
- Jason O Mahony » Blog Archive » Why Canada, Australia and New Zealand should join the European Union.
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2013
Mar. 2nd, 2013 04:00 pm- Creepily realistic body art
- China’s Paid Trolls: Meet the 50-Cent Party
'The Chinese government hires people to distort or deflect conversations on the web. Ai Weiwei persuades an “online commentator” to tell all.'
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2013
Feb. 18th, 2013 04:00 pm- Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out | Danger Room | Wired.com
'How did the Galactic Empire ever cement its hold on the Star Wars Universe? The war machine built by Emperor Palpatine and run by Darth Vader is a spectacularly bad fighting force, as evidenced by all of the pieces of Death Star littering space. But of all the Empire’s failures, none is a more spectacular military fiasco than the Battle of Hoth at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back.'
- PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator
- Teenage Girl Blossoming Into Beautiful Object | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
'in the span of 14 months, the high school junior underwent a staggering metamorphosis from a young girl with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations into a truly stunning commodity.'
- Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity | Fruzsina Eordogh | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
'Finding yourself at the centre of a meme sensation should be lucrative – but a Berlin lawsuit shows fame doesn't always pay'
- Politwoops - All deleted tweets from politicians
So, what are they changing their minds about…
- There Are Giant Camera Resolution Test Charts Scattered Across the US
- Neil Gaiman on Alan Moore's life
- A Parliament without transparency has no accountability | Unlock Democracy
There's a push for the MEPs to have a secret ballot on whether they accept the EU budget. Doesn't that make them unaccountable to their constituents?
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2013
Jan. 24th, 2013 04:00 pm- 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
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2013
Jan. 23rd, 2013 04:00 pm- Nepal to Issue 'Third Gender' IDs - ABC News
- '2 girls 1 cup' producer sentenced to 4 years in federal prison | Circa News
'for producing, distributing and selling obscene videos.'
- The dark side of Buddhism | Rationalist Association
Is Buddhism harmful? Karma suggests your life's events can be dominated by a past life's misdeeds, & if the thought, "I am happy right now", can never occur without an accompanying, "And I am just delaying my ultimate fulfillment in being so", then what, essentially, has life become?
- BBC News - Cameron speech: France offers 'red carpet' to UK firms
'France will welcome any businesses that leave the UK, should the country exit the European Union'
Interesting Links for 03-01-2013
Jan. 3rd, 2013 04:00 pm- Westminster Council’s proposals for obesity: awful, awful, awful « Another angry woman
'It’s a very shiny-looking report, with a picture of an apple on the front. The existence of apples, illustrated by a photograph of one, is literally the only thing which is in any way evidence-based within the entire report. There is not even a reference section. The report is entirely what a few wonks think might be a good idea.'
- Councillor in attack on food bank (From York Press)
'A SENIOR York politician has sparked a furious row by saying there is no real poverty in Britain and people should not donate to food banks.'
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