Interesting Links for 03-05-2012
- Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany. (The epic silliness continues)
(tags: motorola microsoft google patents ) - New report highlights north-south divide among UK voters
(tags: uk geography society politics ) - Edinburgh banning shops from selling more alcohol - except to nice, middle class, well-off people.
(tags: alcohol edinburgh classism money ) - European Court decides that you cannot copyright a language or API, and that reverse engineering is a-ok
(tags: europe eu software copyright epicwin ) - The world's population by latitude and longitude
(tags: geography population visualization maps ) - A raytraced checkered board in 128 bytes of javascript
(tags: javascript web graphics ) - School maths should be more practical, say teenagers (There should be practical maths and theoretical maths)
(tags: mathematics education ) - The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget - a touching story.
(tags: life death memory taxi ) - UK Government to make UK research available to all for free.
(tags: uk government freedom free academia research ) - TeamViewer - for simply remote controlling PCs. (Mostly so I can find it next time I need it)
(tags: software windows remoteaccess remote tools ) - Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive.
(tags: wtf EpicFail drugs police ) - Game of Thrones credits get lego version
(tags: video GameOfThones lego ) - Meet the guy who made it hard to open packets of crisps
(tags: glue packaging crisps ) - The Dr Who theme music, as played on country-style steel guitar. I demand this be used in the next season!
(tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm drwho guitar ) - EA makes a game it sold people unplayable, then decides this was a really fucking stupid idea.
(tags: ea games iphone ) - I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year.
(tags: reading satire internet blogging ) - Wealthy Americans queue up to surrender US passports in Bern
(tags: usa tax immigration switzerland ) - Electoral Fraud in London: 'They knock on the door and ask us to give them our ballot papers'
(tags: politics fraud uk london ) - Most people still watch TV at the time it's broadcast, but increasingly while reading Facebook. Fascinating survey results.
(tags: survey tv internet media facebook ) - Dads - spend three hours per day with your kids and your testosterone drops. (which helps you live longer!)
(tags: testosterone children fatherhood ) - Electronic eye replacements are now being trialled. Welcome to your cyberpunk future.
I hope the essence loss isn't too high.
(tags: eyes cybernetics thefuture ) - Genes may explain why some people turn their noses up at pork
(tags: pork food genetics smell meat ) - Journalist shocked to discover that being asked to lose weight for a role isn't just a female thing.
(tags: men women weight movies acting JasonSegel ) - Tunisia fines TV channel owner over the movie Persepolis (which you should all see)
(tags: movies tunisia religion freespeech blasphemy islam ) - Android Piracy Is Huge Problem for Game Devs (10 pirates for every paying customer)
(tags: piracy copyright games android )
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