Today's PSA

The controls on today's Google Doodle actually work.

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Interesting Links for 8-2-2011

• Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology
  (tags: scientology hollywood)
• Eurabia - complete nonsense not backed up by demopgraphic facts.
  (tags: islam europe demographics bigotry)
• Church of England debates BNP ban for clergy
  (tags: bnp bigotry uk religion)
• Motorola's Android tablet is massively overpriced and has WiFi locked down without a contract. WTF?
  (tags: android tablet EpicFail)
• Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains
  (tags: medicine health flu science vaccine)
• Poor diets are lowering children's IQ
  (tags: iq diet children)
• Sandman, Kabuki and Preacher - where are the movies?
  (tags: Sandman kabuki preacher comics movies)
• A Gurkha soldier, who fought 40 train robbers, to be felicitated in the Republic Day of India
  (tags: gurkha crime EpicWin)
• George Bush cannot go to Switzerland, because he might get arrested for authorizing torture.
  (tags: switzerland torture bush politics)
• Government preparing massive tax cut for large corporations. WTF?
  (tags: politics economics tax recession uk)
• Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change
  (tags: learning productivity motivation change happiness)
• Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical
  (tags: autism funny aspergers psychology)
• MP with cerebral palsy mocked by other MPs as he makes speech.
  (tags: bullying government uk)
• US Manufacturing Isn't Dead (bit its jobs are)
  (tags: economy jobs manufacturing usa)
• Labour 'did all it could' to help Libya secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber
  (tags: libya terrorism lockerbie scotland labour)
• Bill Gates: "the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children"
  (tags: Bill_Gates vaccination)
• Powerful new painkiller with no apparent side effects or addictive qualities.
  (tags: health pain drugs)

Sometimes things get better

I'd like to thank the BBC for putting the word "VIDEO" at the start of the headlines for all of the stories on their site which are predominantly videos*.

It makes it significantly easier to avoid opening pages which I either can't watch at work, or have no real interest in looking at at home.**

*On the RSS feed, that is. They use a little play button image on the site itself.

**I don't enjoy watching a talking head take five times as long to explain something than it would take me to read it myself. I'm not four, I can read for myself. The only time I'm interested in video news is when the image/footage itself is part of the news - i.e. rarely.

Interesting thought of the day

In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show him emerging from the ocean like Ursula Andress. Sexual torture, too, if less creepy-glam than being stripped and painted gold. Vesper Lynd is Bond: never not in control, never without a plan, seducing to further her goals. She has to die so Bond can become her.

From on Ubergrid, Warren Ellis' Tumblr.