Interesting Links for 28-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• NHS waiting times now up by a quarter (since government abandoned the targets)
  (tags: nhs uk government)
• Booker prize judges sent e-readers to save them carrying around 138 books.
  (tags: books ereader technology)
• Some figures on Amazon's market share for books 98-2009. Anyone know what the current figures look like?
  (tags: statistics books publishing amazon sales)
• The physical book is dead. Amazon sold more ebooks than paperbacks in Q4 2010
  (tags: ebook amazon ereader)
• Warming North Atlantic water tied to heating Arctic - water temperature is warmer than during the medieval warm period
  (tags: globalwarming atlantic ocean arctic)
• Egypt Leaves the Internet
  (tags: egypt internet censorship news freedom communications)
• Birds can hold quantum entanglement in their eyes for dramatically longer than we can in the lab.
  (tags: quantum birds physics)
• An episode of UK Kids cartoon "Arthur" with a guest appearance by Neil Gaiman.
  (tags: comics writing cartoon NeilGaiman tv video bbc)
• A real live hawk takes up residence in the Library of Congress. Bad puns ensue.
  (tags: birds library animals libraries)
• Waterproof cover for a Kindle. Now you can read it in the bath!
  (tags: kindle amazon ereader technology awesome)
• Utah Bioweapon Defense Facility Locked Down Over 'Serious Concern'
  (tags: weaponry usa military bioweaponry wtf)
• US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed.
  (tags: israel usa military war weapons)
• Your Chocolate Is Made By Enslaved Kids. No, seriously.
  (tags: Chocolate slavery Child_abuse children)
• What are the long-believed left-wing myths? Anyone care to help out?
  (tags: politics beliefs)
• Judge bans D&D in prison, rules it 'could lead to gang behavior'
  (tags: dungeonsanddragons roleplaying law crime usa)
• Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men
  (tags: relationships sexism)
• Denmark, Finland and Belgium have best democracies, USA in 10th, UK in 26th
  (tags: democracy politics,)
• Officer filmed hitting protester at EMA demonstration. At some point, the police are going to realise this happens a lot...
  (tags: police uk video)
• "Happy New Year" Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident. I shouldn't laugh. But I did.
  (tags: terrorism mobile_phones EpicFail funny)
• Facebook to let advertisers republish user posts
  (tags: facebook advertising)

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Re: •Men more likely to stick with girlfriends who sleep with other women than other men

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