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andrewducker) wrote2012-07-30 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-07-30 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2012
- Critical Mass police ban blocked by law lords
- Tom Hardy Rapping With A Baby Is The Internet’s Reckoning
- £1.4bn plan for Fife wind farm submitted
- Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
- Gretna Green residents are hoping for an influx of people wanting gay marriages.
- Climate sceptics carry out investigation, change their minds. Huzzah for science!
- Olympic opening ceremony: Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei's review
- Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments
- The New York Times gets more than half its money from subscribers. Still making a loss though.
- Employment Minister Chris Grayling moves to push people deemed too sick to work back into work.
- The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history.
- Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
- Mississippi church refuses to marry black couple.
- The Lord of the Rings in 99 seconds. In song.
- All music sounds the same these days - Computer confirms what your gran always said.
- Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM allows _any_ website to take over your computer.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on being asked to produce books like Harry Potter, and the quality of her adaptations
- How our brains see men as people and women as body parts.
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Yes, I know that for me all my principled and practical objections to the Olympics as a whole were completely wiped out by how impressed I was by the opening ceremony - I forgot all about Dow, G4S and the ravaging of London. Write 'NHS' with some beds and I just roll over and play dead-from-socialist-pride. *Rolls eyes*
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But yes.
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Maybe it's just cheaper to buy a brand with a name that has negative associations?
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If there's something _Dow_ is responsible for, which they should have done, or not done, then I am happy to hear it. Otherwise, local elites fucking over local populace isn't something I'm willing to hold them responsible for.
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*joins you in the eye rolling*