Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-30-2010

[andrewducker]

• UK has higher early death rate than many rich nations
  (tags: healthcare uk)
• The Fax Machine Timeline, an illustration of technological change.
  (tags: technology comic funny office)
• FiveThirtyEight: UK Seats Projection: Tories 299, Labour 199, LibDems 120
  I could live with that.
  (tags: politics uk)
• US to stop vetoing Security Council resolutions on Israel if it keeps building settlements
  (tags: israel usa palestine)
• The woman from Bigot-gate refuses to sell out to The Sun.
  (tags: politics uk media)
• Belgian lawmakers legislate women's clothing
  (tags: islam belgium clothing)
• New news on "Campfire" - the game which puts you on the wrong side in an 80s slasher movie.
  (tags: gaming horror)
• Worst press release EVER
  (tags: babies EpicFail)
• Labour caught breaking (or at least severely bending) the rules on postal votes
  (tags: election elections fraud labour politics uk)
• A life with leprosy
  (tags: leprosy disease society usa)
• The Scanner Photography Project
  Taking "long-exposure" photographs with a scanner.
  (tags: photography digital technology hacking camera scanner)
• Relationship counsellor who refused to counsel gay couples loses appeal
  And a good thing too.
  (tags: christianity bigotry relationships laws uk)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

"It seems that a religious bar to office has been created, whereby a Christian who wishes to act on their Christian beliefs on marriage will no longer be able to work in a great number of environments."

And quite right. If a political vegetarian took a job at Gregg's and was then sacked for refusing to make or serve meat pasties to the public would they have a leg to stand on through discrimination laws?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Good analogy. Nobody's forcing you to work with meat, but then don't get a job working with meat.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

A bit like this joke:

'Political correctness gone mad!

I'm advertising for a new job at my company and so in the advert I politely put "Muslims and Jews need not apply." Muslims are generally cool about it, Jews don't care - it's just those fuckers from the council who are round straight away threatening me with a court summons for active racial discimination. Stupid, dopey bastards. I'm a pork butcher.'