Interesting Links for 05-03-2019

[andrewducker]

Keith Flint death: Prodigy front man dies aged 49

(tags:music UK death )

The World Wide Fund for Nature Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People

(tags:nature charity OhForFucksSake )

Ministers halt discussion of tax transparency bill - because it was going to impose transparency on Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man

(tags:tax uk )

Tobacco giants say getting rid of packaging pictures of diseased organs will cost them millions after Brexit

(tags:uk europe cigarettes viaSwampers )

This is the best memorial to Keith Flint.

(tags:childbirth music death )

Virgin Atlantic removes make-up requirement from cabin crew

(tags:airlines makeup work women GoodNews )

UK government doesn't understand how EU works, says its former ambassador to Brussels

(tags:europe uk doom )

Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work

(tags:art Fame socialnetworking )

Incredible shift in immigration attitudes in the UK: 64% were negative in 2011, now down to 26%.

(tags:immigration polls uk )

UK patient free of HIV after stem cell treatment

(tags:aids GoodNews stem_cells )

The BBC is running a positive transgender story. I do hope this is part of a change in the awful media approach that's been going on

(tags:lgbt transgender bbc uk )

Mozilla fears DarkMatter misuse of browser certificates for hacking

(tags:security browser firefox )

Star Wars, edited into five minutes. (been making the rounds this week, well worth a look)

(tags:StarWars video )

Winter - a touching poem. Somewhat about poo.

(tags:faeces poetry relationships )

Plans for Edinburgh's biggest new park in over a century revealed

(tags:edinburgh nature park )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I like the look of the new park in Edinburgh.

[cmcmck]

It's a sweet story, but I wish I could share your hope that the media will finally start to follow the code of conduct which has existed for many years and which they mostly ignore. :o(

And then there's the insistence on a 'before and after'.......

[danieldwilliam]

My impersonation of Keith Flint was the first of my standard bits of clowning that I deliberately dropped. For that reason alone I'm a little bit sad.

Star Wars: Always

[calimac]

Almost enough to make you forget how boring, tedious, and clumsy the actual movies were. (Even the first two, once you re-watched them through the lens of the rest.)