Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-20-2010

• Countering the Coalition cuts: a myth-busting guide
  (tags: government spending uk)
• Speed cameras: what does the evidence say?
  (tags: speed law technology speedcameras cameras driving cars)
• The most shocking discovery yet about how the banks hid their toxic mortgages.
  (tags: banks banking usa EpicFail)
• The New Yorker, or How Not to Set Up a Paywall
  (tags: EpicFail security internet media)
• There's a gene for getting "tipsy" on a couple of drinks!
  (tags: genetics alcohol)
• Grant Morrison on Twitter
  (tags: grantmorrison twitter)
• Probiotic health claims ruled unproven
  (tags: health food europe science)
• Lib Dems claim victory in Trident battle - Warheads reduced by 20%
  (tags: libdem politics uk nuclear nuclearweapons military)
• Hispanics outliving non-Hispanic whites and blacks, despite lower income and raised obesity and diabetes.
  (tags: usa health culture)

Repeating, because it's true

I am not comfortable being your primary source of news. I aggregate links based on what I find interesting, outrageous, clever or fascinating. I put them together quickly, while multitasking and often not having time to read full articles before I post them. This would be bad journalistic practice, if this link-blogging were an act of journalism. But it's not.

quoth rm

Now, I don;t think any of you lot do take me as a primary source of news, but I would like to take this moment to make it clear that I do not always read deeply into things I link to, double-check sources, or even think about them for more than 5 seconds. I frequently link to things where I only found where there's one interesting idea and a bunch of nonsense. I link to things which I disagree with but find amusing.

I hope that you find the links amusing. I'm always cheered by people telling me that they do (and that's not a request for ego-boosting), I just want to make it clear that I don't believe everything I link to, and you bleeding well shouldn't either.