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

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Students call for student tax to replace fees

Hm. Well, leaving aside that I'm Scottish and therefore don't pay my minimal fees anyway...

I do have a 20 (28 now with interest) grand loan. This loan is taken automatically out of my wages when they reach a certain level at a percentage of whatever I make over that minimum. Functionally that is a tax - I actually used the word "education tax" to describe it just yesterday.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I love these link entries of yours. You find so much cool stuff.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

Government has to actually tell people what they're accused of. Shocking!

Does it have to tell them that they won their case? Because I'm thinking, if not, they'll get away with not telling them anything else either. :-)

Fabulous news, and long, long overdue.