Interesting Links for 18-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• Could the US extradite Assange? (No, probably not)
  (tags: uk usa sweden JulianAssange extradition law )
• Amazon to deliver parcels to UK cornershops. Best! News! Evar!
  Seriously, the ridiculous parcel companies only deliver during the day, and you need a car to get to their depots 10 miles outside Edinburgh!
  (tags: amazon postage parcels epicwin )
• Microbes maketh man - You are not just a person, you are an awful lot of microbes, too
  (tags: people biology bacteria )
• Why Women’s Football Isn’t Proper Football
  (tags: women funny satire football )
• The intro comic for the new TF2 expansion is one of the strangest things I've ever read
  (tags: wtf comics games )
• Measuring the Shape of a Photon (and using it to tranmit data) - my mind is blown!
  (tags: viaNancyLebov light technology )
• A brief introduction to those bits of the web that are truly anonymous
  (tags: privacy security web internet anonymity tor )
• Israel sperm banks find quality is plummeting (there's a punchline here somewhere...)
  (tags: sperm israel )
• Man goes without internet for three days. World doesn't end.
  (tags: addiction internet )
• The Ramadan fasting dilemma in a country where the sun never sets
  (tags: light ramadan )
• Ministers call time on hidden card fees and rip-off phone lines (thanks to Europe forcing them)
  (tags: europe credit phones government uk )
• Visa uses bribery, blackmail and fear to win contracts.
  (tags: business visa )
• Why Americans need to learn from other countries
  (tags: globalism usa )
• A Number One Album can now sell less than 10,000 copies. A top-10 album, just 5400. Anyone got long-term data?
  (tags: sales uk music )
• Some music sales data that highlights that, given the choice, people just buy the songs they like.
  (tags: sales music )
• Life lessons from Dave the barman
  (tags: work advice life )
• Anarchists Detained by Counter-Terrorist Police on Return from Swiss Conference
  (tags: ForFucksSake anarchy police uk )