Interesting Links for 20-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Amazon buys Lovefilm
  (tags: amazon movies lovefilm)
• The awful consequences of removing legal aid for benefits advice.
  (tags: law welfare uk government)
• University invite sex expert to conference on sex, then uninvite her because she writes and talks about sex.
  (tags: sex EpicFail academia usa)
• Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong?
  (tags: iran wikileaks politics religion foreignpolicy ahmadinejad)
• Britain facing £1bn fines over use of EU money
  (tags: money eu uk fines)
• A Nanoscale Rope, and Another Step Toward Complex Nanomaterials That Assemble Themselves
  (tags: nanotech TheFuture)
• 25 commandments for journalists
  (tags: writing journalism)
• Freedom Of Information Act expanded to cover many more public bodies.
  (tags: information government uk)
• Ten examples of small-scale renewable energy
  (tags: energy renewables)
• Vatican officials told Irish not to report child abuse
  (tags: ireland Child_abuse catholic)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I bet it's because Tristian has become so fucking obsessed with pegging the past few years and that's a step too far for a lot of people.

[andrewducker]

Pegging?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Girls fucking their boyfriends up the ass with strap ons.

It's been her big thing for a couple years now

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

"takes waste palm tree fronds and leaves, mixes in plastics ... raw material is plentiful and free,"

...in a world where we continue to cut down rainforest to grow palm oil, yes. D'oh. :/

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

And where by removing this 'free raw material', we make the impact of cutting down the rainforest (on carbon emissions and therefore climate change) even worse by reducing tree litter returning organic matter to the soil. Okay, so it is a very small contribution (~4 % for places like Malaysia) compared with the biomass loss but it still adds up.

(sorry, pet topic, I'm calculating these emissions for work right now)

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, the news about the cuts is getting more and more depressing.

[andrewducker]

The thing that gets to me is that the job that those lawyers are doing could easily be done by a group like CAB, if they were better funded. And that would probably be a cheaper way of doing things than paying lawyers for it.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

... if they were better funded and much better trained - when my partner worked for DWP they were always getting people phoning up who had been given incorrect information about their benefits entitlement by CAB :(