Interesting Links for 19-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Music companies to sell singles as soon as they are played on the radio. Why the fuck weren't they already doing this?
  (tags: music business industry piracy)
• Stephen Fry explains how GPS and the Internet work. And fails, miserably.
  (tags: stephenfry technology internet gps funny)
• Labour and Conservatives team up to fight human rights
  (tags: rights law labour conservatives uk)
• Fear of Spiders Can Develop Before Birth
  (tags: fear spiders)
• Gay couple win disctrimination case against B&B that wouldn't rent them a double room.
  (tags: religion lgbt rights uk)

Comments

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I loved* the rhetoric that was being used while they were debating the prisoners voting issue. I know it's a divisive issue (I'm for, some people I know and love are against), but I want there to be more debate than just the condescending comments that I heard on the radio.

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* not necessarily loved

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Laughed lots at the report's statementthat "[Straw and Davis] argue that the Commons should be given the chance to stand up to the ECHR and defy what they see as an illegitimate challenge to a democratically elected Parliament". Democratically elected by those who aren't in prison, that is.