Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-25-2010

[andrewducker]

• Japanese firms to start making superconducting wire for cars and plants. I didn't realise this was feasible!
  (tags: superconductors technology electricity power)
• UK Railways to get £8bn investment
  (tags: rail uk government)
• Longer life expectancy pushes up pension costs
  (tags: life health pension)
• Jury Rules SAP Owes Oracle $1.3 Billion - the largest amount ever awarded for software piracy.
  (tags: software law piracy)
• Building a distributed social network on IMAP and SMTP
  (tags: socialnetworking technology)
• Huge snow robot for Edinburgh city centre. Does _your_ city have a gian snow robot? Then you lose!
  (tags: edinburgh snow robot)
• Breaking news: In a country where vast sums are spent on elections, rich people are elected.
  (tags: politics wealth usa)
• On the use of "the n-word", "n-----" and "nigger".
  (tags: words racism english language)
• 12 Sky-High Abandoned Buildings
  (tags: architecture urban photography abandoned decay city)

Comments

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, let us know how that giant snow robot works out for you when it inevitably rampages through the city.

[andrewducker]

I don't understand why anyone would want a giant robot that _didn't_ rampage through the city.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Point!

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to a snowy rampage and I hope it will direct it's anger towards the park outside my flat.