Interesting Links for 29-3-2011

[andrewducker]

• Antarctic ice breakup makes ocean absorb more CO2 - nice bit of a negative feedback loop going on there.
  (tags: ice globalwarming climatechange antarctic)
• Why Tax Avoidance is among the biggest issues of our generation
  (tags: tax uk)
• Civil liberties in the UK - still a long way to go...
  (tags: rights protests uk law)
• Amazon unveils cloud music player. I think I need to do some digging into this...
  (tags: amazon cloud music)
• Politician uses FOI to get phone data from his provider, and then graphs it (along with Twitter/blogs, etc.)
  (tags: mobile phone privacy timeline data)
• Police now lying to peaceful protesters - as if they needed more reasons not to trust the police...
  (tags: police uk protests)
• Saudi Woman - an inside perspective on Saudi Arabia
  (tags: blog women saudiarabia islam politics)
• 3eanuts - Peanuts with added despair.
  (tags: Peanuts comic funny angst comics)
• Mothers being given ridiculously insane advice by their relatives. The stupid - it burns!
  (tags: stupidity children advice)
• Identical twins have up to 12% difference in their DNA...
  (tags: identity twins dna genetics)
• AHRC denies any pressure from government over funding or research areas.
  (tags: Academia government)
• New process turns waste meat into biodegradable plastic.
  (tags: plastic meat waste recycling)
• Nicotine identified as main culprit in diabetes complications among smokers
  (tags: smoking nicotine diabetes)
• Website blocking back on the cards - legislate now, human rights later, apparently.
  (tags: uk web censorship)
• Stock trades to exploit speed of light - placement of trading software in mid-Atlantic to catch on...
  (tags: finance physics business economics light latency)
• Which country is the UK like economically? (also has a fascinating debt/deficit graph)
  (tags: debt deficit economics europe finance government)

Comments

[makyo.livejournal.com]

3eanuts - Peanuts with added despair.
Gosh, that's even darker than Garfield Minus Garfield.

[andrewducker]

I love Garfield Minus Garfield. I have a collection somewhere - it was lovely to see that Jim Davis approved of it entirely.

[simont]

Taking ideas like that to every logical extreme and not a few illogical ones, have you encountered Square Root of Minus Garfield?

(A different oddity in every transformed strip. Direct parodies of GMG include Garfield Plus Garfield, Garfield Divided By Garfield, and Garfield Minus Jon, and then there are a great many weirder things too...)