Interesting Links for 25-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Coalition, Government and the Lords
  (tags: government uk)
• Bullied by Gays- A catalog of pupils driven to suicide by gay bullies
  (tags: lgbt suicide satire)
• Five Emotions Invented By The Internet. I have experienced all five of these.
  (tags: internet psychology emotions funny)
• The downward spiral of ownership and value (It's happened to music, it's happening to books.)
  (tags: books copyright ebooks)
• Wolfenstein 1-D: The Game That Changed Everything, Converted to a 1-Pixel Line
  (tags: videogames wolfenstein funny)
• The economics of Net Neutrality
  (tags: internet economics markets)
• Why the Cornish hotel ruling should worry conservative Christians - digs into the details of the actual ruling.
  (tags: christianity homosexuality law religion sex society)
• Genetically modified crops are the key to human survival, says UK's chief scientist
  (tags: environment gm food)
• BBC to cut online budget by 25% - close 180 websites.
  (tags: bbc online)
• Why Africa needs an agricultural revolution
  (tags: africa agriculture technology poverty government)
• Government scraps Labour plans to scrap the Common Travel Area between UK, Ireland and Isle of Man.
  (tags: government uk travel)

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

True, good point. I can imagine quite a few people downloading huge numbers of books to create libraries that they'll never read.

I've had friends with immense music libraries they've downloaded, and looking through the numbers of times they'd played stuff, thousands of song they'd never even listened to.

Strange collector impulse at work.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, not that strange given the intersection of spod and record-collector.

There was a lot more going outside and speaking to people involved when one had to beetle off to record fairs on the hunt for Joy Division bootlegs, obscure On-U releases and 'A guy called Gerald' 12-inchers.

These days, one can just sit on one's arse and roundly curse gormless American teens for not getting the metadata right. (It's not a bloody Depeche Mode rarity, it's a Canadian DJ doing a remix, etc.)