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

[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.)