Interesting Links for 13-02-2012
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andrewducker- BitTorrent doesn't effect movie sales - except for delayed releases in other countries
I could have told them that - make it available and people will buy it. Make us wait for months and it'll get sucked down the intertubes.
- The End of the Mainframe Era at NASA
- What it's like to be Brian Cox's wife
- How the internet is killing magic
- NHS among developed world's most efficient health systems
- Crowdtilt - a less limited version of Kickstarter
- Glasgow Labour rebels forming splinter group. Interesting if it takes off up here.
- Why Arabic is Terrific
- Interview: Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party
- On Alan Moore's Doctor Who Work
- Portraits created using police composite sketch software - from descriptions of literary characters
- The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive - check the "Updates" for all the awesome stuff you can get!
- Some numbers on Scotland's whether Scotland's incomings and outgoings balance
- The British government is, unsurprisingly, not interested in harm reduction for drug-taking
- It's only a matter of time before Valentine-induced-anxiety is an official disorder.
- Education Gap In The USA Grows Between Rich and Poor
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Date: 2012-02-13 03:50 pm (UTC)Kinda depends on your definition of left wing. Whether it’s about economic structure, or equality of opportunity or outcome or about power structures.
I'd say they straddled my defintions of left and right wing.
But then I'd say that about the Labour Party too.
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Date: 2012-02-13 03:52 pm (UTC)Having read the interview with Ruth Davidson I have _no idea_ what the Scottish Conservatives stand for.
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Date: 2012-02-13 04:12 pm (UTC)In terms of soul I think the Labour party are more to the left and the Conservatives more to the right than they like people to see.
I'll go and read the interview now so I can join in with some cod psephology and my deep insights into the political soul of the Conservative Party.
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Date: 2012-02-13 04:24 pm (UTC)