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