Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-13-2009

• Robot spiders in your colon
  Hurray! Imagery I downright needed!
  (tags: medicine camera health research science)
• The Parliamentary Question Carter Ruck and Trafigura donâ™t want you to see
  Nice bit of detective work there...
  (tags: Guardian parliament UK law)
• Guardian gagged from reporting parliament - and from reporting why it was gagged.
  (tags: Guardian journalism parliament UK EpicFail)
• The Complete History of Lemmings
  (tags: games history lemmings gaming)

Freedom of the Press

You may have noticed that The Guardian was prevented from reporting from The Houses of Parliament today.  It was also prevented from reporting what it was prevented from reporting, and who had prevented it from doing so.

If you're offended by this particularly ridiculous breach of human rights then feel free to pop over to the handy petition on the 10 Downing Street website and add your name to the bottom...

I seem to have unleashed a beast

1) Post about Treknobabble
2) Charlie Stross is triggered by it
3) And writes a fantastic screed on the failings of Star Trek
4) ???
5) Profit!

Personally I'm quite happy to watch Star Trek as morality tale/fantasy stories - it's _not_ the same as the written SF I like, (which tends to have actual science in it and doesn't pander to the audience so much), but I can still enjoy it in its own right.  But I can understand why some people are downright enraged by it.  Let's face it, I wouldn't want to _read_ Independence Day or Star Wars (not since I was a kid), but I'll happily enjoy the eye candy.

8 Bit comes to life

3D Dot Game Heroes - it looks amazing!
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