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)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Interesting. I guess it's because the vast majority of the people I know order the vast majority of the books from Amazon that it seems like they're the centre of the world for books. Easy to mistake that for the way the general public actually uses them. Thanks!