Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Labour seem to be supporting the coalition government over the welfare/work changes
  (tags: welfare government uk)
• AOL looking to buy Yahoo. Does anyone care about _either_ of these companies any more???
  (tags: aol yahoo internet business)
• The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics - the figures are actually worse than I thought.
  (tags: media newspapers business economics newspaper paywall journalism)
• And the Most Popular Way to Read an E-Book Is …
  (tags: ereader ebooks amazon kindle sony ipad technology)
• The most awesome Lego/Star Wars mash up ever. Only more awesome than that.
  (tags: video lego starwars)
• What comics can do that movies can't.
  (tags: comics movies warrenellis)
• French doctor's 'million-to-one' chance of catching baby who fell from balcony
  (tags: france children luck)
• Cooks Magazine, the apology Judith Griggs should have given. Hilarious from end to end.
  (tags: copyright funny)
• Lorem ipsum - amazing photography of calligraphic body art.
  (tags: art photography words)
• This is how I feel about correcting other people's grammar. Particularly the last sentence of the first paragraph
  (tags: awesome english grammar language linguistics)
• Reporting Sexual Harassment in SF/F
  (tags: assault rape sf fandom publishing conventions)
• Is News Corp about to kill off MySpace?
  (tags: myspace socialnetworking software web2.0)
• Is Apple planing to move to Light Peak?
  (tags: apple intel technology)
• 3 starts killing off 2G coverage
  (tags: mobile_phones 3g uk)
• Altruism gene associated with higher willingness to donate.
  (tags: altruism genetics behaviour psychology)
• The riddle of the NHS budget
  (tags: nhs budget money government uk)
• Government promises dramatic increase in transparency about contracts and costs.
  (tags: data transparency uk government)
• argest independent pilot's association to boycott full body scanners
  (tags: airplanes security_theatre usa)
• Majority of British people believe in control orders, using information obrained through torture and denying prisoners the vote.
  (tags: uk society)

Comments

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that any vague agreement with the grammar chap died when I got to "Apparently someone killed his cat while saying “irregardless” alot" and really couldn't convince myself that it was ironic....

[zz]

i'm guessing an irregardless alot is one that's both blind and deaf? :)

i really don't understand how even former english teachers i know use irregardless, when it's so easy to find arguments against it.

[andrewducker]

Because they like the way it sounds, and people understand what they mean?