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andrewducker) wrote2012-04-16 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-04-16 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-04-2012
- 51% of people in favour of making everyone's tax returns public. 60% want charities excluded from tax limits.
- The UK government's war on internet freedom
- Goverment wasting money on ludicious pseudo-psychology "positive thinking" courses for jobseekers.
Could it be worth, perhaps, training them in actual skills and CV writing instead?
- First gene linked to intelligence found (worth 1.3 IQ, so not that big a change.)
- Canada's newest coin has a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur on it. Good enough reason to move?
- Using non-Newtonian fluids to fill potholes
Canadian coins
...
"Your Majesty?"
"Yes, secretary? What is it?"
"It's the Canadians, ma'm. They want to put out a new coin, with your face on it."
"One should hope they did put one's face on it! That's a rule. What's the problem?"
"They want it to glow. Is that acceptable?"
"Glow! What do they mean?"
"Your face would glow in the dark."
"What, like a traffic light?"
"More like a dinosaur, ma'm."
"I didn't think dinosaurs glowed in the dark. One could ask Philip - one thinks he may have shot a few in his younger days."
"The dinosaur on the coin will glow, ma'm."
"Then the answer's no. One will not have the people of Canada confused between one's royal self and a dinosaur."
"Indeed. One is a relic of a long past age with almost no brain, and the other is..."
"You're fired!"
Re: Canadian coins