Interesting Links for 6-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Ultimate Android Keyboard Showdown: 13 different keyboards pitted against each other
  (tags: android keyboard review apps mobile_phones)
• When Famine Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth
  (tags: food politics)
• Did Scotland Accidentally Create A 'Use It Or Lose It' Copyright Law?
  (tags: Copyright law scotland)
• Racists Totally Freak Out Over Muslim 'Batman of Paris'
  (tags: batman comics racism islam france)
• UK Trade and Investment staff 'told to blow £1m'. Actually standard practice, due to ludicrous way budgets are set.
  (tags: spending government uk)
• NVIDIA launching their own range of CPUs (based on ARM)
  (tags: technology nvidia ARM cpu)
• Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism wasn't just mistaken, it was actuvely fraudulent
  (tags: medicine ethics health research autism mmr vaccination fraud)
• Microsoft shows off Windows 8 on ARM
  (tags: windows ARM technology)
• Labour joins fight against prisoners' votes
  (tags: labour government prison uk law voting rights)
• The best suggestion yet about what we should call this decade
  (tags: funny livejournal)
• Saudi Arabia detains Israeli vulture for spying
  (tags: espionage israel funny saudiarabia)
• EU will exceed renewable energy goal of 20 percent by 2020
  (tags: Environment energy electricity europe)
• Amazon opens the doors of its Android app store to developers.
  (tags: amazon android apps)
• Why Groupon Isn’t in Australia
  (tags: marketing australia wtf)
• Brain scans show children with ADHD have faulty off-switch for mind-wandering
  (tags: adhd brains mri psychology)
• Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media (still larger than I'd like though)
  (tags: pollution ocean)
• HMV to close 60 stores as sales and shares slump. Games Workshop also having trouble.
  (tags: business music games)
• Business: your handy guide to railing against the internet.
  (tags: Business internet funny)

Comments

[andrewducker]

They reopen it intermittently and send out a bunch more invites.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Signed up. Doesn't work on my screen size :(