Interesting Links for 14-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Coventry launches electric bus services
  (tags: uk buses electricity )
• Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill dies aged 69
  (tags: movies mafia )
• The BBC block UK access to some pages produced by BBC Worldwide. What the fucking fuck?
  (tags: uk bbc EpicFail )
• Some interesting discussion/analysis of the new top level domain applications.
  (tags: internet google amazon )
• An editor explains how ebook licensing works, and why you can only buy most ebooks in some countries.
  (tags: publishing ebooks )
• Is the Guardian the most bigoted newspaper in Britain?
  (tags: uk media guardian bigotry palestine israel )
• What happens when the DRM on digital projectors kicks in (a terrible tool-chain)
  (tags: drm copyright movies digital )
• 35mm Film is About to Die – Studios Plan to Go With All Digital Projection by 2014
  (tags: digital cinema )
• The govt’s work programmes are pure exploitation: here’s the evidence (anyone got some counter-evidence?)
  (tags: welfare work uk politics )
• Skype to feature massive in-call ads. Microsoft tries to sell this as a _good_ thing.
  (tags: skype microsoft advertising )
• Chinese mindfulness meditation improves brain white matter and mood.
  (tags: psychology emotion brains meditation )
• Windows Phone market share expected to surpass Apple's iOS in 2016 (expected, in this case, by analysts on crack)
  (tags: windows microsoft mobile_phones apple )

Comments

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean - sorry I just genuinely wasn't sure what you were saying - ie that people commenting on this thread should rebut specific facts rather than saying that RS is stupid.

I think people have done that quite well already so will just say for the record that I do think any article that decries the Palestinians as anti-Semites without acknowledging the harm done to them by the Zionists should be intrinsically read with a wary eye.

You see, your problem, Andy, is that people set so much store in your posts. You may think you're sharing an 'Interesting link' but to the rest of us these are rules to live our life by. 'Hey!' we shout. 'Why is Andy telling us to live our lives according to some fact-skewer who is morally dubious [which, let's face it, is what most of your friends mean by 'right-wing', I certainly do]?!'

With great power comes great responsibility.



PS Spiderman could *so* sort out the Palestine problem.

[andrewducker]

I think you're right.

Sometimes, I even post links so that other people can point out the inaccuracies in them!

[fearmeforiampink]

This sort of thing is why I have the tag 'comment' — I use it to mark things that are people commmenting on a given thing, as a way of saying "This is one person's opinions, not something I'm linking to say 'This is how this situation really is'.

Of course, I have no idea if people reading my linkposts get that, or have no idea.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

That blank space:

I tried to add the geek tag "</ spiderman>" above, 'cause I'm dead cool and that.

LJ tried to parse it as actual html so stripped it.

Awesome.

[andrewducker]

As I'm special, I got to read it in my email, so I saw it with the <spiderman> in it!

I liked it :->