![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Interesting Links for 15-11-2011
Nov. 15th, 2011 11:00 am- How Barnet Council tried to criminalise all bloggers
- Amazon Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
- Stalking – in person or online – to be made an offence.
- Alan Turing, Alan Garner, Walt Disney and The Wicked Witch
- The trouble with video games isn't the violence. It's that most of the characters are dicks
- New system of intelligent management of street lighting enables 80% savings in energy
- PC sales down by 11% in third quarter of 2011. Blip, or are PCs dying?
- Income Tax/NI to be merged, and people to have online access to their tax records.
- Barnes & Noble reveals Microsoft's patent strategy against Android
- Wine could be sold in recyclable paper bottles.
- Sir Jimmy Savile's coffin encased in concrete. Presumably to prevent him from initiating the zombie apocalypse.
- Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
- How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why
- Harry Potter Director Bringing Doctor Who to Big Screen (with its own continuity - I approve)
- A mod for Skyrim that replaces the spiders with bears. I'd like one of these for real life.
- Massive networks of stripes appear in Chinese Desert
- Bruce Wayne's medical records
- Intel 4004, the first CPU, is 40 years old today
- Is reading on the loo bad for you?
- High childhood IQ linked to subsequent illicit drug use
- Conflict mineral laws haven't helped Congolese.
- BBC drops Frozen Planet's climate change episode to sell show better abroad (read, to the USA)
Tags:
- africa,
- alangarner,
- alanturing,
- amazon,
- android,
- batman,
- bbc,
- birthday,
- blogging,
- bureaucracy,
- censorship,
- charliebrooker,
- children,
- china,
- climatechange,
- computergames,
- computers,
- congo,
- copyright,
- cpu,
- crime,
- davidyates,
- death,
- disney,
- drm,
- drugs,
- drwho,
- electricity,
- energy,
- epicfail,
- frozenplanet,
- history,
- innovation,
- insidertrading,
- intel,
- intelligence,
- iq,
- jeffbezos,
- jimmysaville,
- law,
- lgbt,
- lighting,
- links,
- markets,
- microsoft,
- movies,
- packaging,
- patents,
- photographs,
- politics,
- reading,
- recycling,
- science,
- space,
- spiders,
- tax,
- technology,
- toilet,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- videogames,
- violence,
- wine
