Interesting Links for 4-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• How to find problems to work on
  (tags: blogs inspiration research learning academia)
• For the first time in history, UK manufacturer's have more money in the bank than borrowed from it.
  (tags: banking manufacturing business uk)
• Football fans still ignoring how transfer market makes mockery of their allegiance
  (tags: football funny business)
• MPs with mental illness will no longer be automatically disqualified
  (tags: mental_health government politics uk)
• Carl Sagan and his Fully Armed Spaceship of the Imagination (a webcomic)
  (tags: comic science funny astrology homeopathy)
• A good description of what it feels like to have depression
  (tags: depression)
• Jesus vs Dr Who - part 2
  (tags: doctorwho religion webcomic comic funny)
• Jesus vs Dr Who - part 1
  (tags: doctorwho religion comic funny drwho)
• Liverpool withdraws from government 'big society' pilot
  (tags: government uk)
• Protestors use technology to outwit police and avoid kettling.
  (tags: protestors protests uk police)
• The utter futility of scratch card games online with the UK National Lottery (and not for the reason you think)
  (tags: gambling games lottery)
• How to become a dentist in four hours. AWESOME. I WANNA BE A DENTIST!
  (tags: satire)
• Documents in Julian Assange Rape Investigation Leak Onto Web - more details. Unpleasant stuff.
  (tags: rape JulianAssange law)

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

With those files being leaked, doesn't that now make them prejudicial, and inadmissable in a court of law?

[supergee.livejournal.com]

You'll need more than that change of Parliament rules to catch up with us.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Nyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargrh. It's not 'Doctor Who'.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I really miss Home on the Strange. That was a great comic, and those were two of my favorites. =)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It's a stupid point, but while I admit "kettling" aptly describes the act of concentrating potential violence all into one place, I don't see why we need a new word, other than "unlawful inprisonment" to describe detaining peaceful, innocent people without any suspicion or any due process, merely because there are a lot of them in one place.

(I also admit it would be a sane response to people who ARE seriously violent, and effective it deterring anyone at all from invoking their rights to free speech and assembly.)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

WRT to the scratchcard guy, I agree it's depressing, but isn't "taking a small medium or large amount of effort to discover whether or not the ticket was pre-chosen to win" what physical scratchcards are. You could have ones where what you do effects the outcome but I don't think it's common (?) It's mildly amusing it's more visible on the web, and I agree it's depressing, but it hardly seems surprising...

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

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Jesus vs Dr Who - part 2
(tags: doctorwho religion webcomic comic funny)
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Jesus vs Dr Who - part 1
(tags: doctorwho religion comic funny drwho)
Totally AWESOME!! Though if the two met they would certainly enjoy each others company I would think. :)

Protestors use technology to outwit police and avoid kettling.
(tags: protestors protests uk police)
FANTASTIC!! I like this very much. And kettling sounds bad.

Documents in Julian Assange Rape Investigation Leak Onto Web - more details. Unpleasant stuff.
(tags: rape JulianAssange law)
I hadn't read these, but ya' know, I thought Julian was not a very nice person when he said he hated bullies. I looked at him and thought he was a bully. Hmmm....

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The statistics about British manufacturing companies having more cash assets than liabilities at the moment is interesting. I foresee much takeover activity...