Interesting Links for 30-11-2011
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andrewducker- Welsh paralympic great Tanni Grey-Thompson criticises absence of women on BBC Sports Personality Of The Year list
- The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin (I find it fascinating. Sticking to pounds for now though.)
- Good Lord, Windows phones seem to be selling. (Always in favour of more competition)
- Top Five Regrets of the Dying
- And an interesting piece on those deathbed regrets.
- EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language or APIs
- Should public racism be cause for arrest?
- 17 cultural reasons why this European never wants to live in America
- One of Europe's largest companies wants to abandon email. Bwahahahaha
- So, who else is looking forward to the forthcoming war with Iran?
- This is pretty much how I feel about respecting other people's beliefs
- Women who play online games have more sex
- Subtitling educational pictures. I declare myself "amused"
- US judge goes crazy, orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
- Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism
- Apple's Siri Is (currently) Pro-Life (one hopes they update this)
- Cheer up: The economy could be much worse (soon, I suspect).
- Egypt imports 21 tons of tear gas from the US, port staff refuse to sign for it
- The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Restrospective
- Quote of the Day - Isaac Asimov on Ignorance in America
- If you want to be the best in the world at something then you cannot be normal.
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Date: 2011-11-30 04:07 pm (UTC)I sort of take that approach. At least I'd like to think I do.
But deep down I have the secret feeling that people need to be dragged kicking and screaming into rationality... :/