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andrewducker) wrote2012-05-02 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-05-02 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2012
- MPs announce that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run News Corp
- The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is slowly being reformed.
- Unrealistic expectations of relationships are a scourge on society.
- How Marvel took The Avengers from a throwaway reference in Iron Man to a record-breaking movie
- Sleep cancels out obesity gene
- Pakistani province's high court orders government to stop censoring websites illegally
- See which parties voted the way that you would want them to.
- Want to know what TV comes out when? Then this is the most awesome site in the universe.
- The dilemmas of TV filming - camera types are changing, and the different styles cause different emotional effects
- Nine more people arrested for naming a rape victim on Twitter.
- Wormworld saga chapter 3 is out. The art is still gorgeous.
- On rape within the BDSM community
- Have 26 per cent fewer houses been built under the Coalition?
- Consumer ebooks sales increased by 366% in 2011. Still only 6% of physical books.
- Microsoft removes racy apps from Windows Phone store. So glad my apps aren't censored.
- SPDY Performance on Mobile Networks. (From the figures, I think SPDY caches will be damned useful)
- Final Fantasy 13-2 characters model Prada. (Okay, gaming is now officially completely mainstream)
- A computer built into a radiation detector. Gloriously retro-looking
- Android Ported to C# - staggeringly faster
- Vote for the person, not the party, in your local council elections (if you're in a country with a sensible voting system)
- Scottish children drinking less fizzy drinks, drinking lots of alcohol, doing no exercise, are very happy.
- Radical Honesty - a step too far?
- Cutting red tape and taxes will not revive Britain - it's spending it in the best places that will help.
- Neal Stephenson answers interview questions (including the one about his epic battle with William Gibson). Old, but good.
- Protection of Freedoms Act landmark achievement in fight for civil liberties.
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Sadly, there are no coin-tossing lunatics running for election, so I will probably vote LD->SNP->Lab tomorrow.
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E.g. Reword the "all smoking should be banned" (which > 50% of people disagree with) to "smoking should not be allowed in some places" or (which > 50% of people agree with) and you've reverse people's political stance.
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The fact that no one party exactly matched what I want (and none even got above 50%) does at least tell me that if they're cheating they aren't doing it too egregiously.
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I got a measley 13 % for Labour, presumably because the current lot are a bunch of authoritarian war-mongering morons, which is quite depressing, especially as I got 28 % for the Tories :(