Interesting Links for 09-03-2013

• Bigger than the cinema box office, bigger than music and bigger than books, the video games industry is big business
  (tags: games society business )
• UKIP leader Nigel Farage dines with Rupert Murdoch (Please let The Sun switch to UKIP!)
  (tags: politics ukip RupertMurdoch )
• A nice visualisation of contradictions in the Bible
  (tags: religion visualization bible )
• Online retransmission of TV programmes protected by copyright, rules CJEU
  (tags: law europe tv copyright )
• The first completed section of the Edinburgh Trams has been handed over to the council.
  (tags: trams edinburgh )
• The Hierarchy Of Freelance Clients
  (tags: work writing business )
• Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV (I love living in a world with headlines like that)
  (tags: thefuture aids bees nanotechnology )
• Warner Bros. tries to make Harry Potter child slavery scandal disappear
  (tags: chocolate harrypotter children slavery )
• People are weird. In this case, incredibly touching. And weird.
  (tags: love art viaPadmini people )
• On squeamishness about sex (I know so many people who should have read this when they were younger)
  (tags: sex nature blood )

I love that I can, on a whim, spend half an hour reading about The Great Vowel Shift. In bed.

Seriously. The internet is just amazing.

Favourite example so far:

"Prior to the GVS, which took place over around 200 years, Chaucer rhymed food, good and blood (sounding similar to goad). With Shakespeare, after the GVS, the three words still rhymed, although by that time all of them rhymed with food. More recently, good and blood have independently shifted their pronunciations again."
(Richard Watson Todd, Much Ado About English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language. Nicholas Brealey, 2006)

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