Something I heartily approve of

The Equality Act 2010 just came into force.

Amongst the many other good things in it, they made secrecy clauses over pay unenforceable, if you are talking about it in order to find out if there is pay discrimination. Which basically makes them totally unenforceable. And a damn good thing too.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-1-2010

• Benefits to be replaced by universal credit. I support the basic idea, less forms to fill. Worried about implementation.
  (tags: benefits welfare government bureaucracy uk)
• Hotel's Curvature Causes Deathray Effect
  (tags: hotel weaponry funny architecture)
• Minimum wage up, new minimum for apprentices, adult rate from 21 rather than 22
• Only 1.7% of sites blocked by Scandinavia's child-porn filters are actually child porn
  (tags: censorship scandinavia)
• Babies born without immune system given it through gene treatment
  (tags: genetics medicine immune_system)
• XMarks considering becoming a paid service. Sign up here.
  (tags: xmarks)
• Developers - please try and remember that nobody reads your dialog boxes.
  (tags: ui ux windows programming)
• Homophobia. I sincerely hope that when you tell your grandchildren we treated people this way they don't believe you.
  (tags: homophobia usa lgbt)
• Feeling sorry for David Miliband. Almost.
  (tags: politics uk labour)
• Virgin Broadband doubles its upload speed. Yay!
  (tags: virgin broadband)
• A graph of public expenditure in the UK over time, which you can fiddle with the settings of. Fascinating.
  I hadn't expected Health to have gone up by quite that much.
  (tags: spending government uk)
• Audiences want more realistic portrayal of gay people
  (tags: gay lgbt media tv)