Interesting Links for 25-3-2011

[andrewducker]

• Scotland's smoking ban - five years on...
  (tags: health scotland statistics smoking)
• OMG! Oxford English Dictionary adds LOL
  (tags: internet english oed dictionary)
• RIM says Playbook tablet will run Android apps (and Blackberry Java ones)
  (tags: android RIM java apps)
• Till death do us part - a brief look at marriage, romance, and cohabitation
  (tags: relationships marriage law love)
• Life's Too Short for the Wrong Job - an awesome advertising campaign
  (tags: advertising photography marketing funny)
• Artist forced to destroy art worth millions after being found to breach copyright
  (tags: art copyright)
• Dear Nick Clegg, 10 things you can disagree with Cameron on
  (tags: politics libdem conservatives)
• Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
  (tags: agile enterprise programming management development funny)
• IT Provider tells British Government that IT Providers are ripping them off. Must forward this on to a few people at work...
  (tags: agile government opensource business politics economics)
• Syria unrest: Government pledges political reforms
  (tags: syria politics middle_east democracy)
• Man hired to make his friend's wife pregnant. Tries 72 times unsuccessfully. What you might call Epic Fail...
  (tags: funny sex germany)
• Lois Lane, Girl Reporter - a behind the scenes look at a comic that never made it into production.
  (tags: comics loislane superman)
• Terry Gilliam interview. Wide-ranging and fascinating.
  (tags: TerryGilliam MontyPython movies)
• Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll
  (tags: physics BrianCox science tv)
• Bottling up emotions causes people to be more aggressive
  (tags: emotion aggression psychology)
• Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
  (tags: freespeech rights writing neilgaiman)
• Chemical/genetic control for sexual preference found (in mice)
  (tags: sexuality lgbt behavior sex serotonin hormones)
• A developer for EA talks about the appalling working conditions (2004, I hope things have since improved)
  (tags: ea work working_hours)
• Job-Killing Decisions by Techies: What Not To Do
  (tags: career technology)
• Simpler pension system to be better for women, and involve less form filling
  (tags: pensions uk)

Comments

[simont]

Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development

A vaguely related (but more profane) parody site is this one.

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

oo, thanks for that link to the Gilliam interview. Faustus!