Interesting Links for 8-10-2011

[andrewducker]

• Princess Bride Reunion Video
  (tags: PrincessBride movies video inconceivable)
• The TV Tropes Plot Generator. Warning - will eat your day.
  (tags: TVTropes plot funny writing)
• What works, works! (a post for Ada Lovelace Day)
  (tags: transgender computing gender lgbt technology)
• Topeka, Kansas City Council Considers Decriminalizing Domestic Violence To Save Money
  (tags: usa crime abuse violence)
• Charity advert banned because it might make people pressure politicians
  (tags: politics advertising uk)
• Glasgow nightclubs start using fingerprint ID
  (tags: glasgow scotland fingerprints identification alcohol)
• Barnes & Noble Pulls Watchmen, Sandman And 100 DC Graphic Novels From Their Shelves Over Amazon Kindle Fire Deal
  (tags: amazon dc books comics business)
• HP to replace flash and SSD in 2013, DRAM by 2015
  (tags: memory technology computers)
• iTime, as Science Fiction Short Story
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Comments

[andrewducker]

Personally, I value the lives of the starving people in Africa over whether Bono is happy or not. YMMV, of course.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Well said.

The Make Poverty History campaign was about pressuring political leaders too, I'm somewhat bemused as to why this ad falls foul of rules which I thought were about party political broadcasts.

[skington.livejournal.com]

I think anything that ends with "Call your MP today to demand that..." rather than "And that's terrible" falls foul of political advertising rules.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Huh, so they are actually about political lobbying then, I see. I'm not sure I agree that that's where the line should be, but I haven't thought about it before now.