Interesting Links for 07-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• Ken Clarke defends secret courts. I, of course, think they're an awful idea.
  (tags: law secrecy security_theatre uk )
• 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
  (tags: money income society )
• Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.
  Is there a reason why voting has to happen on one day? Give people a week to vote, with daily updates on the ongoing count!
  (tags: voting uk scotland independence jews )
• Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
  (tags: adhd diagnosis children )
• Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords. (And they can, frankly, fuck off)
  (tags: facebook privacy employment usa )
• Dammit, I find myself largely in agreement with esr on Hollywood, piracy and the internet
  (tags: censorship politics freedom )
• A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.
  (tags: uk Child_abuse )
• How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook
  (tags: lubricant facebook amazon advertising )
• On Writers Block
  (tags: neilgaiman writing )
• I hadn't realised that Gillian Anderson stood on a box for The X-Files
  (tags: GillianAnderson x-files tv )
• Either be offensive, or don't be offensive. Being offensive and then pretending you weren't is just dumb.
  (tags: humour offensive )
• Rather than a mansion tax we should be sorting out council tax
  (tags: tax uk housing )
• Romney vs Mr Burns - can you tell which quote belongs to which one?
  (tags: simpsons politics usa )

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I have a vague memory that back in the 80s, one college's football programme was suspended because the coach paid for the flights to enable one of his students to attend his mother's funeral. Which seems a little harsh.

I also find it amusing that while it is possible to be "academically ineligible" as a college athlete, former Washington Redskins defensive end Dexter Manley managed to play four seasons at Oklahoma State despite being (in his own words) "illiterate".

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I remember that 80s thing too. I think it was just the NCAA trying to make it as clear as possible what their "no tolerance" rule meant - since so many, many people seemed to think they could get away with almost anything.

Do you remember when three UNLV players were photographed sitting in the hot tub of Ritchie "The Fixer" Perry?

http://www.reviewjournal.com/images/business/perryhottub.jpg

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I also remember in the early 90s I think it was a Michigan player who got caught accepting a suitcase with $280,000 in cash inside it and tried to explain it away as a "private student loan" - even though he had a full scholarship already.