Interesting Links for 28-3-2011

[andrewducker]

• Saudi Arabia - the biggest women's prison in the world
  (tags: saudiarabia feminism women rights)
• Nokia confirms that Symbian will be dead by the end of 2012.
  (tags: nokia symbian mobile_phones)
• Our trip up the side of Edinburgh Castle (with a massive banner) has hit the newspapers!
  (tags: av politics guardian newspaper)
• Psychobabble: Curing homosexuality?
  (tags: homosexuality psychology)
• How to have difficult conversations
  (tags: conversation life advice)
• 50 Strange and Bizarre Black & White Photos (a couple of which are NSFW)
  (tags: photography photos weird)
• Try Thinking (nice piece on the "Try Praying" ads currently making the rounds).
  (tags: religion advertising culture)
• Best. App Store. Review. Ever.
  (tags: apps color funny review)
• Government funding for academic study of Arts/Humanities made dependent on studying Big Society. WTF????
  (tags: government academia freedom DoNotWant)

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Woot - awesome work there on the huge YES banner! :-)

[andrewducker]

Thanks!

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

I read that second one as "Sybian" and was briefly extremely disappointed.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It strikes me that "The Big Society" is an area in need of a lot of research since nobody seems to know/understand what it is.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Exodus International has been advertising their "cure" for homosexuality for years, and it's total bullshit, of course. All those people do is fuck up confused and emotionally fragile people.

Groups like this nearly make me forget that I'm a pacifist.