Interesting Links for 02-04-2012

• Email and web use to be monitored under new laws. I really hope this gets rapidly squashed
  (tags: government UK privacy surveillance )
• Mind-boggling XKCD April Fools comic wrap-up thread
  (tags: location awesome internet xkcd )
• Many groundbreaking cancer studies cannot be replicated
  (tags: research fraud cancer science )
• Ask a Physicist: Will CERN awaken the Elder Gods?
  (tags: cern physics cthulhu funny )
• Why nations fail
  (tags: nations history society politics economics )
• SPAM may have uses (in protecting against universal internet surveillance)
  (tags: surveillance spam internet )
• Humans: hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
  (tags: humans running evolution exercise biology )
• How the Tories u-turned on civil liberties. (Where, by the way, are the lib-dems speaking out against this?)
  (tags: politics surveillance rights uk )
• Do you remember voting for The National Security And Anti-terrorism Party?
  (tags: terrorism security_theatre rights )
• Gaming Consoles Will Soon Be for Nerds Only (I don't agree, but it's an interesting argument)
  (tags: consoles computer_games business prices )