Interesting Links for 28-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• Should government reward 'good' businesses? Hint - there's a definition problem...
  (tags: business government uk politics)
• What are BNP supporters really like?
  (tags: bnp politics uk bigotry racism)
• European Commission presents financial transaction tax. This will be...interesting.
  (tags: finance economics europe investment)
• Fascinating discussion of "How much does a website cost?"
  (tags: web design business)
• "How much does a website cost?"
  (tags: pricing design webdesign website business)
• Why conservative Christians flock to a Chicago gay bar
  (tags: religion sexuality lgbt usa christianity)
• 5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work)
  (tags: crime statistics)
• Linus Torvalds's Lessons on Software Development Management
  (tags: linux programming management development software opensource linustorvalds)
• Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
  (tags: academia copyright publishing usa)
• Amazing visualization of which tech company "steals" employees from which.
  (tags: business employement technology facebook microsoft google apple yahoo)
• Microsoft and Google are battling over who has the most senators
  (tags: politics usa microsoft google patents)
• Cyborg rats think with digital cerebellum
  (tags: rats technology robots brains)
• 10 Weirdest Consumer Products Based on NASA Technology
  (tags: nasa space technology)
• Gender and software systems
  (tags: gender software computers law uk)

Comments

[birguslatro]

It must be terrible to work for Facebook, what with no other companies wanting you...

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

That should be "How much does a website *design* cost".

The design of the pretty is (if you're doing it properly, for medium-sized and bigger websites), a minor part of the whole budget.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of things to say against a two party system, but it sure does keeps down the extreme right as a political power. It still prefer proportional representation as a system, but it's far easier for the (extreme) right wing to gain a foot hold. Specially when it is front is a smart, normal guy like Geert Wilders or Filip de Winter.

[tysolna]

I had a chuckle while reading the article on gender and software systems when I saw this: "The catch within the GRA (section 22)..."

[thakil.livejournal.com]

"I met a racist, but she actually seemed quite nice". The author seems a little distressingly sympathetic to the goals and aims of the BNP to be honest...

[andrewducker]

He seemed entirely neutral to me. Looked like straightforward reportage of how people think and behave.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I think "I met a racist, but she actually seemed quite nice" is really quite an important point - people with vile opinions about something might be entirely nice people in every other respect, you can't spot racists just by looking for people who turn every conversation around to how they want to kill all the n*****s.

It does distress me that the journalist appears to share the (not just BNP) position that "disliking immigration" and "racism" are not closely connected, and thus doesn't join up the clear dots between "wanting to protect my culture from immigration" and "racism".