Entry tags:
- amazon,
- awesome,
- banking,
- banks,
- bestiality,
- blindness,
- books,
- brains,
- business,
- community,
- computers,
- construction,
- danharmon,
- ebooks,
- economics,
- epicfail,
- festival,
- fiftyshadesofgrey,
- food,
- funny,
- games,
- harrypotter,
- holocaust,
- housing,
- israel,
- jamesbond,
- jews,
- kickstarter,
- liberal,
- links,
- linux,
- mecha,
- money,
- movies,
- odd,
- opengl,
- palestine,
- publishing,
- rbs,
- robot,
- savings,
- scandinavia,
- sight,
- society,
- tax,
- technology,
- temperature,
- timworstall,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- valve,
- viajohncoxon,
- viajwz,
- video,
- windows
Interesting Links for 02-08-2012
- Tax avoidance investigations into big businesses get more aggressive - and pull in nearly £1billion more
- The curious case of the blind man who could still see.
- Fifty Shades of Grey is now the bestselling book ever on Amazon - beating off Harry Potter.
- New drywall building material can cut buildings' energy consumption by 40% by stabilising temperature.
- I just pledged towards a Kickstarter for finding out how to make America more like Scandinavia
- Dan "Community" Harmon has _three_ shows in development. Yaaaaaay!
- Wrigley Co. Uses Bestiality to Sell Skittles
- Real life mech! Or possibly very nicely faked mech! Either way: mech!
- Cabinet discusses full nationalisation of RBS
- 007 - The Business of Bond
Don't forget to click "adjust for inflation" to see how the early movies compare. Particularly considering their budgets.
- Valve's Source Engine runs faster on Linux than it does on Windows.
- E-book festival aimed to attract 25,000 people - manged less than 100.
- Hamas blasts Palestinian official's Auschwitz visit
- No-frills savings plans outlined by the UK Treasury.
Can't see them being popular, myself. If the government wants a good baseline savings product it could do them itself, via the Post Office.