Interesting Links for 21-09-2015

• Valve hits a Linux landmark—1,500 games available on Steam
  • (tags: valve steam Games Linux )
• How Terry Pratchett helped me hate a party
  • (tags: terrypratchett party )
• The same cat, drawn in several different styles
  • (tags: cats art )
• Heroic Historical and Uncomfortable Truths
  • (tags: history slavery Greece war heroism )
• The double whammy of being poor – making less and getting charged more
  • (tags: poverty Money shopping )
• #PigGate farce: Story of Cameron’s ‘private part’ in dead pig’s mouth resonates gloriously online
  • (tags: davidcameron pigs epicwtf )
• The Internet of Incompatible Things
  • I feel this way about the various proprietary Sonos competitors. *sigh*
  • (tags: computers technology fail )
• "This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday, September 22nd."
  • (tags: Apple news OhForFucksSake )
• Ashcroft's David Cameron book doesn't justify the Daily Mail's hype
  • (tags: DailyMail davidcameron )
• Free school meals for infants set to be scrapped under Osborne's spending review
  • (tags: children food school conservatives )
• The PM, the Pig and musings on Power
  • (tags: conservatives power politics psychology groups )

What's actually important about today's hilarious political news

Things that are hilarious, but not actually that important: A politician doing something embarassing by putting his penis in a dead pig*.

Things that are not hilarious, but are actually important: A major political backer expecting that they'd get a senior role in the government if they donated £8m to the party, and then releasing embarassing university activities when they didn't get it**. What other events are being held over politicians heads? And what are people getting out of it?


*Seriously. Feel free to wrap bacon around your penis any time you like. I really don't care. Except for it being funny. It's far more offensive that he also burned £50 in-front of a homeless person to get into the Bullingdon Club.
**On which note - if David Cameron _was_ being blackmailed over this, and didn't give Lord Ashcroft a role in the cabinet despite that, then I have a fair bit of respect for that.