Interesting Links for 30-06-2014
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andrewducker- Facebook manipulated users' moods in secret experiment to show bad moods spread
- 'Bad' video game behavior increases players' moral sensitivity: May lead to pro-social behavior in real world
- Cliff Slip and Slide! 50 Feet! In 4K! (Looks like way too much fun)
- Using average height as a proxy for poverty tells you something about the USA
- Microsoft's "Open" document formats are incompatible with both other implementations and themselves
- Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels
- 7 bogus grammar 'errors' you don't need to worry about
- Android Wear smartwatches make Google Glass obsolete
- The Irish Times keeps getting the facts wrong on the baby burial case
- Conservatives plan to merge NI and Income Tax
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Date: 2014-06-30 01:39 pm (UTC)*cough* Tories finally persuaded to consider what the LDs have been pushing for for years and was announced as something to be planned for but not necessarily implemented this Parliament in either Osborne's 1st or 2nd budget...
I know the Indytab's given up on being a paper of record but there's no need to still give all the credit for good ideas to the Tories (because partially if it is merged and the tax threshold goes up again then immediate Living Wage with no fussing around).
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Date: 2014-06-30 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 08:14 am (UTC)(I was in dialogue with Kreyos earlier this week and have resurrected my original order for a Meteor smartwatch)
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Date: 2014-07-02 08:42 pm (UTC)I'm still pretty happy with my Pebble, but it's clearly version one of something that's going to keep getting better over time.