Interesting Links for 01-07-2013

[andrewducker]

• Valve Starts Sharing Revenue With Toolmakers
  (tags: tools valve money )
• Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months
  (tags: law epicwtf texas usa )
• The PS4 and Xbox One aren't that expensive, historically speaking.
  (tags: money playstation xbox )
• Google making the Web faster with protocol that reduces round trips
  (tags: google internet )
• First MP comes out as bisexual.
  (tags: politics UK lgbt )
• Vietnam shipped slave labour to Russia in order to pay off war-debt in the 80s.
  (tags: russia vietnam slavery )
• Why retail console games have never been cheaper
  (tags: games money )
• Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
  (tags: music technology transhumanism )
• Rule #1 of running tv-associated conventions: Do not insult the actors.
  (tags: viaJennieRigg conventions drwho )
• Living in a city makes you more innovative (and six other things that do too!)
  (tags: cities innovation )
• The Zen of Cookie Monster
  (tags: muppets life zen cookies )

Comments

[pseudomonas]

I thought Simon Hughes was already out as bi?

[andrewducker]

Apparently there's some debate over how out he is, and between being outed, and coming out. See LJ for a bit more :->

[pseudomonas]

Grr, comments-in-more-than-one-place. One of these days I will get round to writing a bot to copy comments to both places.

[matgb]

DW can import just new comments from crossposted posts, but few people run the importer that regularlyl and it sometimes glitches an you get duplicate stuff.

And the Salmon protocol never took off :-(