Interesting Links for 27-3-2011

[andrewducker]

• Why Was I Banned? - Idiots ask why they were banned from XBox Live (and are told)
  (tags: funny xbox game videogames microsoft)
• Napster boss set to buy Metallica’s record label. I am terribly amused.
  (tags: business music p2p napster Metallica)
• Cex seem to be buying 3DSs for more than their retail price. Anyone care to explain it to me?
  (tags: nintendo cex wtf)
• The War on Margarine. What an entrenched industry will do to an upstart given half the chance.
  (tags: food culture history usa)
• Gender breakdown for reviews and reviews in SF. Not as bad as I feared. But not what you might call great.
  (tags: gender writing scifi)
• Porn made for women, by women (a Guardian article, not the porn itself. You can use google for that...)
  (tags: porn women feminism)
• A checklist for before you start a discussion about anything.
  (tags: discussion logic facts)
• Deficit reduction through growth - not gonna happen.
  (tags: deficit economics budget uk)
• Budget boost for clinical trials - here's something that I definitely approve of
  (tags: science medicine research ethics guardian)

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I remember back in the 40s and 50s squeezing the little color dot to make the margarine yellow.

[andrewducker]

Having grown up with Margarine and Butter as separate but equal, I am baffled to discover this!

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

If I've got it quite right, it's still illegal to dye margarine yellow in the province of Quebec.

-- Steve prefers butter, himself, but doesn't like the chicanery of the dairy industry.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Your link to the gender breakdown in SF reviews has prompted me to go check something ... see my journal for details.