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Interesting Links for 18-08-2012
Aug. 18th, 2012 12:00 pm- Could the US extradite Assange? (No, probably not)
- Amazon to deliver parcels to UK cornershops. Best! News! Evar!
Seriously, the ridiculous parcel companies only deliver during the day, and you need a car to get to their depots 10 miles outside Edinburgh!
- Microbes maketh man - You are not just a person, you are an awful lot of microbes, too
- Why Women’s Football Isn’t Proper Football
- The intro comic for the new TF2 expansion is one of the strangest things I've ever read
- Measuring the Shape of a Photon (and using it to tranmit data) - my mind is blown!
- A brief introduction to those bits of the web that are truly anonymous
- Israel sperm banks find quality is plummeting (there's a punchline here somewhere...)
- Man goes without internet for three days. World doesn't end.
- The Ramadan fasting dilemma in a country where the sun never sets
- Ministers call time on hidden card fees and rip-off phone lines (thanks to Europe forcing them)
- Visa uses bribery, blackmail and fear to win contracts.
- Why Americans need to learn from other countries
- A Number One Album can now sell less than 10,000 copies. A top-10 album, just 5400. Anyone got long-term data?
- Some music sales data that highlights that, given the choice, people just buy the songs they like.
- Life lessons from Dave the barman
- Anarchists Detained by Counter-Terrorist Police on Return from Swiss Conference
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