Interesting Links for 17-6-2011

[andrewducker]

• Some answers to just about any bike forum post I’ve ever read (applies elsewhere too)
  (tags: cycling advice)
• Android Public Service Announcement: Stop Using Task Killer Apps – NOW
  (tags: android mobile_phones)
• UK welfare fraud is at 0.8%. Remind me why it's a big deal?
  (tags: welfare fraud uk)
• Scientists record and replay memories in rats.
  (tags: memory technology cybernetics TheFuture)
• A new process for cement that is carbon-negative (unlike most cement, which produces oodles of CO2)
  (tags: cement technology construction cartoon)
• An amazing dance pose. Damned impressive.
  (tags: dance art photos)
• More details on the Apple Patent for passing info through infra-red signals. Has some fascinating uses.
  (tags: apple patents mobile)
• Edinburgh is in the middle of nowhere. Click. Then zoom out. And again. And again...
  (tags: edinburgh google maps funny)
• Heart With No Beat Offers Hope Of New Lease On Life
  (tags: health heart technology)
• Duke Nukem Forever Castrates the Male Ideal
  (tags: dukenukem funny feminism)
• Republican New York Senator Comes Out For Gay Marriage With Awesome Quote. More like this please.
  (tags: usa lgbt politics marriage)
• Kinect for Windows SDK released. Shame about the license.
  (tags: kinect microsoft sdk)
• Rob Zombie Has Made an advert for laundry detergent. It looks exactly how you'd think it would.
  (tags: RobZombie advert horror)
• Apple to ban iPhone gig filming
  (tags: apple iphone censorship music concerts EpicFail HopefullyUntrue)
• Alex Salmond’s silence on banking is “elephant in room” for Scottish independence
  (tags: banking scotland independence)
• New Statesman interview Alan Moore: "I've disproved the existence of death"
  (tags: alanmoore writing books)
• Reduced solar output will not cause a little ice age.
  (tags: solar sun climate)
• Woman tries to hire hitman via Facebook. About as successful as you'd expect.
  (tags: EpicFail facebook crime)
• MP demands government rethink on Digital Economy Act
  (tags: internet uk politics)

Comments

Limit?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Wot's a limit?

Just don't ask wot I pays and pays and pays....

Re: Limit?

[andrewducker]

I think I pay around £30-£35/month. Including phone insurance of £5.

Re: Limit?

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I was going to say - surely you have home contents insurance? I know mine covers my phone, it might be worth checking and save that £5 a month?

Re: Limit?

[andrewducker]

Would contents insurance cover me leaving my phone on a bus?

Re: Limit?

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I've no idea - but it's worth giving them a quick call and asking. I did ring mine to find out if my telly was covered when I dropped an antler on it (it wasn't)

Re: Limit?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I pay £18 basic (a flexi-allowance for calls/texts) + extra £5 a month for unlimited data. I'd never even consider a capped-data plan - too dangerous!

Re: Limit?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

insurance? I have 2 backup phones. If I stuff the nice one I'll just suck it up, go back to the previous one and save up... Outright theft is covered on my home contents.

Re: Limit?

[andrewducker]

Certainly at the time I got my phone I couldn't afford to replace it (not at £400-ish). Paying £5/month to make sure that if I lost it I'd have a replacement has so far worked out well (not, admittedly, with the current one, but I managed to leave the previous one on a bus).