Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-3-2010

[andrewducker]

• Pork's Dirty Secret: The nation's top hog producer is also one of America's worst polluters
  (tags: environment pollution agriculture business pork food)
• Over 50% of young people not registered to vote.
  56% of 17 to 24-year-olds were not registered to vote, nor were 31% of voters from ethnic minorities. Of people who had moved house in the last year, only 21% were registered.
  (tags: voting politics uk)
• How not to throw a grenade (animated GIF)
  (tags: funny EpicFail military video)
• London councils sue themselves for parking offences
  Islington Council not only issued a parking ticket to itself, but then pursued itself at the Parking Adjudicator and then asked for costs against itself.
  (tags: law london EpicFail)
• sex is not the enemy - a blog which is completely and utterly not safe for work.
  (tags: blog sex photography art photos sexuality erotica feminism)
• Mephedrone: classifying legal highs
  (tags: drugs mephedrone prohibition nutt uk)
• T-Mobile and Orange UK merger approved by EU
  (tags: mobile phones UK)

Comments

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

It can be difficult to stay on the electoral roll if you move around a lot and/or live in shared houses, which young people disproportionately do. If you move in after the forms are sent out but before the election, you have to be quite motivated to get yourself added to the roll. One year I had a housemate who filled in and returned the form without adding me to it, so I wasn't registered to vote that year.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

"Islington Council says that council fleet drivers are personally responsible for parking fines incurred when parking illegally, and the driver should have appealed as an individual not as a council employee. "

Not so unreasonable then.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

In that GIF, it looks like a smoke grenade that's being thrown. In which case this chap probably found himself with a much more brightly coloured set of combat kit than before, as well as a better appreciation of the inherent hazards of THROWING EXPLODING THINGS.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. I'm most unlikely to link to footage of someone seriously harming themselves by dropping a live grenade on their foot. My sense of humour is occasionally grotesque, but not _that_ grotesque.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

The pig farming is contemptible.
I had a quick look on google earth starting at New Bern and heading west.
At 5000ft you can see the "lagoons" next to their factory sheds.
There needs to be global action on this type of thing since the company in question is trying to do the same in europe.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I have to say...

"I didn’t find my clitoris until I was eighteen, after six years of active sexuality."

For fuck's sake. I know girls are socially conditioned away from their own sexuality and in some families downright denied it, but really. How hard is it (no pun intended) to develop a bit of healthy curiosity?