Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-11-2009

[andrewducker]

• Cartoon Korea
  How the view of Korea that's reported in the UK is distorted. Not that this makes NK a lovely place to visit, but it does highlight the things that aren't reported.
  (tags: NorthKorea journalism UK)
• US brain-plug interface gets live human trials
  Internet in my head, plz.
  (tags: TheFuture technology brains)
• Raw Video: Cop Tasers 72 Year-Old Granny
  Highlighting, again, why the police should have cameras on them at all times. Because then you can watch him taser a 72-year-old half his height, and make your own mind up whether it was reasonable behaviour.
  (tags: TransparentSociety crime video)
• French Three Strikes law thrown out
  Huzzah for them having a constitution!
  (tags: copyright France internet law p2p threestrikes)
• Humans prefer confidence to expertise
  (tags: psychology advice brain)
• The Ducks Are Not Mine
  This is just _hilarious_.
  (tags: funny pets)
• Monster Jellyfish take over the oceans
  Aieeee!
  (tags: nature pictures science globalwarming environment)
• Students call for student tax to replace fees
  Doesn't sound like a bad idea.
  (tags: tax students)
• Gödel and the End of Physics
  A talk by Stephen Hawking. Well worth reading.
  (tags: interview hawking godel physics quantum science logic)
• How chaos rules complex systems and our existence
  Nice tying together of Godel, The Halting Problem and chaos.
  (tags: complexity mathematics programming math philosophy chaos)
• Terror suspects win legal battle
  Government has to actually tell people what they're accused of. Shocking!
  (tags: terrorism HumanRights law UK)

Comments

[andrewducker]

It's just added on top of the student loan in the rest of the UK.

So this doesn't actually make much difference, as far as I can see.