Clearing things up

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Interesting Links for 9-3-2011

• MAWWIDGE (nicely written article on marriage, and the amendments currently being proposed in the UK)
  (tags: marriage uk lgbt)
• Lilliput and the Alternative Vote - a nice visualisation/explanation of its advantages.
  (tags: av voting)
• Tory crisis talks over threat of AV. They're terrified that there would never be a majority Tory government again.
  (tags: conservatives uk government av)
• England healthier than the US
  (tags: health uk usa)
• Why education alone will not fix America's problems
  (tags: education technology globalization)
• Study identifies changes to DNA in major depression and suicide
  (tags: depression suicide dna)
• Why you shouldn't tick "Jedi" in the upcoming UK census.
  (tags: jedi census starwars religion uk)
• Three ways George Lucas' wife saved Star Wars
  (tags: GeorgeLucas StarWars women movies)
• The State of Version Control
  (tags: versioncontrol cvs git mercurial subversion)
• Inside Egypts secret police HQ. Warning - descriptions of torture.
  (tags: egypt crime revolution torture)
• On disliking the term "privilege"
  (tags: privilege feminism)
• Fox tries to censor its own censorship - Gets caught in a perpetual legal loop
  (tags: law fox censorship EpicFail dmca)
• Stephen King pens 1,000-page JFK time-travel novel
  (tags: stephen_king jfk writing)
• Google is developing a music service in the cloud. Legal cases will follow very shortly after launch...
  (tags: music google law android)
• Has Lesotho bridged the gender gap?
  (tags: gender lesotho africa equality)
• Spotify now has 1 million subscribers (15% of their 6.67 million users)
  (tags: spotify music technology internet)
• Should all financial innovation be curbed? Interesting argument.
  (tags: finance banking investment)

I need a macro, stat!

via riotclitshave

Why The Big Society won't work

(For those of you whoe don't know what The Big Society is)

Stuck in my head

via usmu, who accurately points out the remarkable similarity to the Pet Shop Boys.

There must be a dopamine rush from solving the puzzle

I got an email from johnbobshaun earlier:

The new Flaming Lips EP is being distributed on a usb stick inside an edible gummi brain inside a life size edible gummi skull.

Their last single was distibuted as twelve youtube videos that you needed to play simultaneously.

and it makes me wonder. I know that you get publicity for releasing things in odd ways. And I'm sure it amused the artists no end to be able to produce these crazy things. But what percentage of the population gets a kick out of this? And how much does it correspond with the people that like the music?