Interesting Links for 21-6-2011

[andrewducker]

• Left wing? Want to know who to waste your time hating? Gotcha guide right here...
  (tags: hate politics uk)
• BBC to dramatise Life Of Brian controversy in new film. I remember when it was scandalous!
  (tags: montypython comedy blasphemy uk law religion christianity)
• WikiLeaks Guide/Critical Infrastructure. Visualising which locations around the world the US deems "critical".
  (tags: politics usa wikileaks government globalization)
• We have two sets of working memory - one on each side of the brain
  (tags: brain memory psychology)
• The problem with financial markets is much information is well hidden.
  (tags: economics finance business politics)
• You don't understand something until you think it's obvious.
  (tags: education learning thought)
• Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use
  (tags: copyright fair_use usa law)
• How an infinite piece of string can be shorter than two inches (told in language a child can understand)
  (tags: infinity length mathematics)
• Cocaine addiction linked to brain abnormalities (the bits that help you make good decisions)
  (tags: cocaine addiction brain)
• Scotland's TV goes entirely digital today.
  (tags: tv scotland digital)
• Linux ARM support - an ugly mess
  (tags: linux arm kernel software linustorvalds)
• The end of cheap labour in China
  (tags: china globalization outsourcing)
• A Game Of Thrones Holiday Special - The Best Christmas Special since Star Wars!
  (tags: funny GameOfThrones)
• Tory-only government would have been tougher on immigration and welfare.
  (tags: conservatives politics uk)
• World's oceans in much worse shape than previously thought
  (tags: environment ocean)
• Head of Equality and Human Rights Commission says that religion is essentail to being human.
  (tags: religion uk EpicFail)

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

re: religion essential - guess I am an alien then. No news there, then....

[andrewducker]

You're not the only one :->

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

You don't understand something until you think it's obvious: Rings very true on all points!!!

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I bashed my head off of OOP for weeks, and now have no idea why.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I was starting to feel angry about that religion-essential-to-being-a-human story, but then I saw who the president of the British Humanist Association was and I just felt dirty.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed at how closely the writer was able to match Lewis Carrol's style of writing.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I don't know, but nowadays I suspect Tortoise-and-Achilles dialogues to be homaging Douglas Hofstadter's homage to Lewis Carrol :)

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

Does the Righthaven decision set any precedent for, say, a case where an author writes a single paragraph story and a popular website reposts it whole without authorization?

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

No, the judge specifically ruled that out:

"The judge also said he took into consideration that only five of the editorial’s paragraphs were “purely creative opinions” of the author.

“While the work does have some creative or editorial elements, these elements are not enough to consider the work a purely ‘creative work’ in the realm of fictional stories, song lyrics, or Barbie dolls,” he wrote. “Accordingly, the work is not within ‘the core of intended copyright protection.’”"

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

That's not an infinite piece of string, though; that's an infinite number of pieces of string.

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

The case of an infinite piece of string being shorter than two inches is quite simple, though: just tie one end to the other :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Except for the earlier agreement that an infinite number of connected pieces of string, no matter how small, would be an infinite piece of string. Which is a not-very-good definition, but it's the one that Achilles agreed to at the start.

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

Ah, I missed that bit.

But yeah, Achilles and Laurie are just wrong about that. They even have a counterexample right there in front of them, supplied by Tortoise himself!

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Hernando de Soto is always worth paying attention.

A minor hero of mine.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yes but when the f*&k do the transmitters go to full power? I want Film4! (UK Free TV is a wonderfully geeky site on telly transmitters)

[andrewducker]

Judging by the date of the frequency change at the bottom of that page - Wednesday!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

what? hurray! how did I miss that?