Interesting Links for 29-04-2013
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andrewducker- Here is today.
- Why aren't the Green's making gains,when UKIP is?
- Japanese Latte Art Will Perk You Up
- 66 Behind the Scenes Pics from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
- Time travel in movies: a chart.
- The French: The Most Productive People In The World
- In Defense of Psych Treatment for Attempted Suicide (some fascinating stats here)
- Welcome To Britain, where our current monarch is a Bond girl, and our future ones are wizards
- Bad lines from bad films.
- A Politician Loses It On The State House Floor, Says What All Of Us Are Thinking
- The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
- Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
- Muslim and Sikh staff escape NHS hygiene rule
- Smartphones are now more than half of all mobile phones.
- The EU is planning an appalling law around seeds.
- Lard: After decades of trying, its moment is finally here. - Slate Magazine
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Date: 2013-04-29 03:19 pm (UTC)The 'rant' by the US politician is a thing of beauty. I watched it twice.
I used to use winamp... Now I use iTunes but only because (a) we have several iDevices in the house and (b) it keeps _everything_ in one place. But it's a horrid UI and it disables my laptop's keyboard backlights on exit.
Not sure how I feel about the 'cultural loophole' for cleanliness in the NHS. I'm thinking along the lines that folk are free to express faith in whatever the heck they like - as long it doesn't affect other people who don't want to be affected. Cleanliness in the NHS feels like it might carry a significant risk if everyone doesn't follow the same cleanliness rules?
Happy to see some debate if any of your flist wants to weigh in.
Smartphones are so widespread now that the predicted 'phone'-will-replace-'smartphone' has already happened amongst my friends and colleagues. Not me though. I'm still catching up, linguistically.
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Date: 2013-04-30 07:33 am (UTC)C4 debunked it two years ago in fact!
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/did-nhs-scrap-washing-rules-for-muslim-staff/1828
(Annoying it's still doing the rounds)
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Date: 2013-04-30 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 07:32 am (UTC)b) In this case, someone else got there first, and I already have the C4 rebuttal lined up for tomorrow morning!
(I'm really glad it's not true, too.)
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Date: 2013-04-30 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 07:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 12:27 pm (UTC)