Interesting Links for 03-05-2012
May. 3rd, 2012 12:00 pm- Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany. (The epic silliness continues)
- New report highlights north-south divide among UK voters
- Edinburgh banning shops from selling more alcohol - except to nice, middle class, well-off people.
- European Court decides that you cannot copyright a language or API, and that reverse engineering is a-ok
- The world's population by latitude and longitude
- A raytraced checkered board in 128 bytes of javascript
- School maths should be more practical, say teenagers (There should be practical maths and theoretical maths)
- The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget - a touching story.
- UK Government to make UK research available to all for free.
- TeamViewer - for simply remote controlling PCs. (Mostly so I can find it next time I need it)
- Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive.
- Game of Thrones credits get lego version
- Meet the guy who made it hard to open packets of crisps
- The Dr Who theme music, as played on country-style steel guitar. I demand this be used in the next season!
- EA makes a game it sold people unplayable, then decides this was a really fucking stupid idea.
- I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year.
- Wealthy Americans queue up to surrender US passports in Bern
- Electoral Fraud in London: 'They knock on the door and ask us to give them our ballot papers'
- Most people still watch TV at the time it's broadcast, but increasingly while reading Facebook. Fascinating survey results.
- Dads - spend three hours per day with your kids and your testosterone drops. (which helps you live longer!)
- Electronic eye replacements are now being trialled. Welcome to your cyberpunk future.
I hope the essence loss isn't too high.
- Genes may explain why some people turn their noses up at pork
- Journalist shocked to discover that being asked to lose weight for a role isn't just a female thing.
- Tunisia fines TV channel owner over the movie Persepolis (which you should all see)
- Android Piracy Is Huge Problem for Game Devs (10 pirates for every paying customer)