Interesting Links for 27-06-2012
- Violent crime down by 17% in Scotland
- Homeless applications in Scotland fall by 19%
- We know what you're doing...
- Accused of copyright infingement? It'll cost you £20 to challenge the claim. Whatever happened to "Innocent until what proven guilty."?
- How Apple trains its store staff.
- Louis CK is selling his own tour tickets - and reserves the right to take tickets back if you sell them for more than you bought them for.
- Chess algorithm written by Alan Turing goes up against Kasparov.
- Biologists reveal potential fatal flaw in iconic sexual selection study
- Conservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
- Looks like we have a winner for worst game of 2012
- List of Worthwhile DOS Games
- Dependency on Google advertising dollars forces TV Tropes to delete all references to rape.
- Some Facts & Insights Into Ethics And Music Business Models (Hint, things actually not getting worse for most artists)
- David Cameron should know better than this housing benefit gimmick (and, of course, he does. It's all media fodder)
- Reducing tax avoidance: more signs of progress
- Housing: the IPPR’s answer
- Coming soon - a Lego movie, with Supermand and Batman, from the makers of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
I loved that movie. And a Lego movie could be awesome.
- 11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Versions of Their Books
- German court rules circumcision is bodily harm
- More than 200 church leaders across the USA say they no longer believe in God.
- Why ‘encumbrance’ and ‘forbearance’ are crippling banks and the economy. (Anyone fancy singing a few rounds of The Doom Song?)
The general approach seems to be "If we just prop up all the banks eventually everything will be fine." and I'm just not seeing that as being sustainable indefinitely.
- A day in the life of a startup founder (hilarious)