Interesting Links for 19-1-2011

• Music companies to sell singles as soon as they are played on the radio. Why the fuck weren't they already doing this?
  (tags: music business industry piracy)
• Stephen Fry explains how GPS and the Internet work. And fails, miserably.
  (tags: stephenfry technology internet gps funny)
• Labour and Conservatives team up to fight human rights
  (tags: rights law labour conservatives uk)
• Fear of Spiders Can Develop Before Birth
  (tags: fear spiders)
• Gay couple win disctrimination case against B&B that wouldn't rent them a double room.
  (tags: religion lgbt rights uk)

Is LJ slow for everyone, or is it just me?

Anyone else finding LJ terribly slow?

And at the top - King Kong!

Autonomous helicopters construct ad-hoc towers.

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(emailed to me by johnbobshaun, and seen on the journal of budgie_uk)