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andrewducker) wrote2012-07-20 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-07-20 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- behaviour,
- business,
- climatechange,
- coal,
- consultation,
- crime,
- death,
- disability,
- drugs,
- ebooks,
- electricity,
- epicfail,
- erotica,
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- google,
- health,
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- prideandprejudice,
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- scotland,
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- sports,
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- weight,
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- wtf,
- yahoo
Interesting Links for 20-07-2012
- Lack of evidence that popular sports products work (Including Puma, Lucozade, and amino acid supplements)
- Disability and sexuality: everything you think you know is wrong
- Is Britain behaving better? (Crime at lowest level for 37 years, antisocial behaviour also down)
- Loch Lomond and Trossachs hydroelectric scheme opened
- Where Tetris blocks really come from
- Oh Mr Darcy! Pride and Prejudice among classic novels to receive erotic makeover
- There's a consultation on assisted dying - you can fill it out here.
- Sex offenders to take polygraph tests - despite polygraphs being rubbish.
- Live in Edinburgh and go drinking with friends in Glasgow? Then you can't get the train home afterwards.
- Finally, a UK mains plug you can put in your pocket.
- Kinder Eggs are illegal in the US - and carry a $2,500 fine.
- Why Pot Is Illegal Everywhere in the World
- Why iPhone pricing and market share in the US is so different to everywhere else.
- Yahoo! by Mayer (High-ranking Googler taking over at Yahoo)
- Author Denise Mina predicts that ebooks will fundamentally change everything about books and publishing.
- Highland Council challenged on prayers at meetings
- In utero exposure to diesel exhaust a possible risk factor for obesity
- We have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as climate scientists think is safe to burn.
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It does seem unlikely that these will do it _well_ though.
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Also it's lazy as hell on the part of the writers and that pisses me off as a person who gets irritated by people profiting from others' work.
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