Interesting Links for 01-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• With The Avengers, Joss Whedon Masters the Marvel Universe
  (tags: joss_whedon movies comics writing )
• How the Scottish council elections work. (STV FTW!)
  (tags: voting politics scotland stv )
• I am very, very glad I was not on any of these planes
  (tags: video weather airplanes travel )
• High Court rules that The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs. Wonder how easy it will be to bypass...
  (tags: internet law uk piracy ThePirateBay copyright )
• LiveJournal - replacing "Scrapbook" with a new version that doesn't do half of what the current version does
  (tags: EpicFail photos livejournal )
• The Manfred Macx Media Diet
  (tags: media information thefuture charlesstross WarrenEllis )
• Should people accept that pressure is a fact of life?
  (tags: pressure stress life psychology )
• Clip reveals Hobbit to be a load of stupid shit for kids
  (tags: TheHobbit movies funny )
• Turns out strippers have rights too.
  (tags: erotica dancing rights work uk law )
• Samsung overtakes Nokia, pushing it into second place for the first time in over 8 years.
  (tags: samsung nokia mobile_phones )
• The UK's Intellectual Property is framework one of the world's worst for consumers
  (tags: uk copyright intellectual_property )

Comments

How the Scottish council elections work

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And apparently some form of electronic counting. By now I'm so twitchy whenever I see "electonic" anywhere near "voting" I hope it all goes smoothly (at least its counting, not just purely electronic voting).

Re: How the Scottish council elections work

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I wouldn't trust purely electronic voting, but properly supervised, validated counting seems safer.

Last time round was a shambles though, so I'll hold off on judgement until the weekend :->

Re: How the Scottish council elections work

[andrewducker]

Some background info, if you're _really_ bored:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/116601/0110435.pdf

(via fanf's link blog:
http://dotat.at/:/feed.html

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The woman who brought the case against Stringfellows was on Radio 4 this morning, in fact. Interesting, smart individual!

[andrewducker]

I think she'd have to be at the least strong-willed to make it through a court case, particularly to win the first of its kind.

Any additional information come out in the interview?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Only in terms of how this ruling may affect other categories of workers who are classed as self-employed to save the de facto employer money. (It was on Woman's Hour, if you're interested: the first item. Should be on the Listen Again function.)

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Who uses Pirate Bay anymore?

Kick Ass Torrents is faster and more reliable.

This is like if the Chinese wanted to block Friendster and keep Facebook up.

[andrewducker]

I've certainly found the TV listings on Kick Ass Torrents more reliable than on TPB.

That and http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat give me everything I'd need :->

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I sort of feel like Pirate Bay is the land of viruses and rick rolls, while KAT and Eztv.it seem to have found a way to filter out the bullshit and only have good torrents.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Even years ago, I always found isohunt and demonoid to be better torrent sites; and for Brit TV you can't beat thebox.bz.

And of course anyone who torrents regularly will just shrug and switch on TOR.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

holy crap, those aeroplane landings are impressive. Pilots are incredible. (my brother was on a flight out of Santander last week and his plane got hit by lightning, which sounded equally terrifying)

[andrewducker]

It's terrifying - because I don't think those planes should be anywhere near the ground. But on the otherhand, I'm not convinced they should be in the air either...