Interesting Links for 11-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore
  (tags: computers design )
• Derivatives trader: 'The trouble is, regulators are idiots'
  (tags: regulation finance london money )
• External auditor: 'Nobody at a bank can have a complete overview any more'
  (tags: banking uk finance )
• Melinda Gates wants family planning back on the global agenda
  (tags: contraception family GatesFoundation )
• 'Snooper's charter' delayed after last-minute coalition talks
  (tags: privacy politics uk )
• Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies
  (tags: employment business france )
• Communications interception — dazed half-memories of a conference call with Julian Huppert
  (tags: law politics uk internet privacy )
• Community coming back for a final season of 13 episodes
  (tags: tv community )
• Facebook now charging people if they want to make sure their friends see their posts.
  (tags: facebook money )
• Heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist
  (tags: astronomy space physics )
• Maternal antibodies to gluten linked to schizophrenia risk in children
  (tags: schizophrenia gluten )
• Susceptibility to autism may be the price we pay for being human.
  (tags: autism brains humanity intelligence genetics )
• The salesman and the developer
  (tags: business marketing sales development )
• Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups
  (tags: files facebook sharing )
• Smartphone users think differently to those with non-smart mobiles.
  (tags: mobile_phones behaviour society technology )

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

France (and for that matter many other European economies) desperately need to sort out their supply side, especially their labour markets. Can't see that happening in France any time soon though.