Interesting Links for 31-8-2011

[andrewducker]

• George Osborne and Vince Cable at war over bank reform
  (tags: banking conservatives libdem uk)
• Conservative MPs come out against Nadine Dorries’ plans for abortion providers
  (tags: abortion conservatives law uk politics)
• How one woman became the face of the crash.
  (tags: photos germany finance media reporting)
• Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book
  (tags: DavidBowie children book comic)
• Students vs Prisoners - a comparison of Michigan spending priorities
  (tags: spending usa prison school children money government)
• Apple ejects Financial Times app from iTunes - FT moves to HTML5
  (tags: newspapers media apple html5)
• Flickr introduces geofences for privacy. Very nice bit of functionality.
  (tags: flickr privacy tagging mapping)
• The Joyce Project - a Hypermedia companion to James Joyce's Ulysses
  (tags: JamesJoyce hypertext internet)
• Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells: Chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen
  (tags: hydrogen power fuel)
• Studies question effectiveness of sex offender laws
  (tags: sex abuse crime law usa)
• Alternate History Postcards
  (tags: art postcard history scifi)
• The internet movie firearms database. Wow. Detailed!
  (tags: guns movies database internet weapons firearms wiki)
• World’s 7 billionth person about to be born
  (tags: population)
• Who is the UK's favourite Harry Potter character? Neville Was Robbed!
  (tags: harrypotter)
• In economics, who are the parasites?
  (tags: economics society)
• Short jail terms not the answer to stop reoffending
  (tags: crime punishment prison recidivism scotland)
• Lens Wind Turbines Magnify Power
  (tags: wind power technology TheFuture)
• Two new methods of disposing of bodies. Which to choose?
  (tags: death)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

In re hydrogen storage: Boron is somewhat rare and expensive, so we'll see how this plays out. I can hope that if the principle is sound, people will find ways to use less boron and/or substitute other elements.

[andrewducker]

I feel sure that if the usage goes up enough to push prices up further then the markets will provide more people willing to mine/refine it.