Interesting Links for 23-01-2012

• The Megaupload indictment, in detail; or, a crash course in the DMCA and why they're totally fucked
  (tags: copyright megaupload usa law )
• Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Modesty Fight
  (tags: women gender judaism patriarchy )
• Weird things fans have said to authors
  (tags: fandom authors )
• The BBC covers polyamory
  (tags: marriage polyamory relationships )
• Has the Conservative's independent-minded MP put the party off open primaries?
  (tags: politics uk )
• France grapples with job conundrum
  (tags: france jobs welfare )
• The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor
  (tags: poverity life habits food money )
• The three deadliest words in the world: "It's a girl."
  (tags: infanticide children murder women )
• A response to the US President's challenge on copyright and technology
  (tags: copyright politics technology )
• Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users' Political Status Updates
  (tags: facebook privacy politics )
• SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy
  Oddly, the numbers used by the movie/music execs to justify new laws don't add up.
  (tags: music copyright movies business )
• Magic Cards with Googly Eyes
  (tags: magic funny )
• Until 2009, the human clitoris was an absolute mystery
  (tags: clitoris women biology sex vagina )
• A french view of English and French parenting
  (tags: parenting children development france uk )
• Two undercover police officers had children with campaigners they spied on and then abandoned them
  (tags: police children uk )
• Is teaching women to code a feminist act? And does it matter?
  (tags: feminism development coding )
• Living life without ads (makes it much less stressful)
  (tags: advertising )
• Help! My children have grown up French!
  (tags: children france development )
• Why Some Men Are Playing Women, and Why Game Developers Should Take Note
  I played the female Shepherd in Mass Effect having heard the voice acting was better.
  (tags: gender games )
• An author ties herself in knots justifying lies.
  (tags: writing lies )
• MPAA boss calls for bribed politicians to stay bribed
  (tags: politics corruption usa mpaa oops )
• Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival 2012 - amazing photos!
  (tags: China photos winter snow )

A new acronym for you

From

via my brother Hugh.

Has apparently been around for a bit, but I somehow missed it.

So I thought I might like to go to the show

Thanks to the kind offer of crash space from pozorvlak in Glasgow and the arrival, five minutes ago, of my ticket for the showing, I will be going to the recording of Newsnight Scotland next week after all! Woohoo!

And actually, despite what the original email said, the taping is over by 9:30, so the crash space might not be necessary. I wish they'd been more specific in the first place.

In any case I'm looking forward to it (in a somewhat nervous manner), although it's a bit sad that I'm missing daisyflip's birthday drinks to be there (she's given me special permission).