Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-16-2009

[andrewducker]

• Beyond Twitter - Woofer and Squeaker
  I'd read Woofer.
  (tags: twitter funny)
• Danish pupils use web in exams
  And about time too.
  (tags: education internet denmark computers learning)
• All of Britain's political parties are apparently behind high-speed rail in the UK.
  (tags: politics transport uk)
• Dutch approve per-kilometer tax for drivers
  Beginning in 2012 the law will abolish current road taxes and sales taxes for automobiles, cutting the cost of a new car by 25 percent, in favor of the pro-rated distance tax. Drivers will be charged 0.03 euros per kilometer (7 cents US per mile) in an attempt to reduce traffic jams fatal accidents and carbon emissions.
  (tags: law driving netherlands tax)
• The identity of Belle Du Jour is revealed
  (tags: prostitution blogging uk)

Comments

[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

•Dutch approve per-kilometer tax for drivers
The thought of this here rather fills me with horror*. Undoubtedly, this has to do with living in semi-rural Kentucky where any form of shopping is at least a half hour drive. Luckily, I do live near work--abt ten or fifteen miles... but a lot of people around here do not.

*mostly because it sounds like the sort of thing large cities would just love the idea of---the same sort of people that would say, "You shouldn't own a car**, you should take a bus!" ... umm... sure, where's the bus, though?

**A friend from Australia, upon hearing I got a new car, said "Congrats!! Now you're all independant and grown up!" ... I said, "Dude, I'm thirty-two in rural America. I've had a car since I was fifteen... I just got a different one. .. but thanks!!"

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

All of Britain's political parties are apparently behind high-speed rail in the UK.

....but are almost certainly unwilling to spend the tens of billions of pounds that will be required to deliver it. (For the Tories, delete "almost" from that sentence.)