Interesting Links for 27-06-2012
- Violent crime down by 17% in Scotland
(tags: scotland crime ) - Homeless applications in Scotland fall by 19%
(tags: homelessness scotland ) - We know what you're doing...
(tags: facebook privacy transparentsociety ) - Accused of copyright infingement? It'll cost you £20 to challenge the claim. Whatever happened to "Innocent until what proven guilty."?
(tags: copyright uk law ) - How Apple trains its store staff.
(tags: apple business customerservice work ) - Louis CK is selling his own tour tickets - and reserves the right to take tickets back if you sell them for more than you bought them for.
(tags: comedy business louisck ) - Chess algorithm written by Alan Turing goes up against Kasparov.
(tags: chess AlanTuring ) - Biologists reveal potential fatal flaw in iconic sexual selection study
(tags: sex biology gender genetics ) - Conservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
(tags: viaTheWeaselKing judaism lgbt ) - Looks like we have a winner for worst game of 2012
(tags: EpicFail games ) - List of Worthwhile DOS Games
(tags: history computers games ) - Dependency on Google advertising dollars forces TV Tropes to delete all references to rape.
(tags: advertising media rape TVTropes EpicFail viaFanf ) - Some Facts & Insights Into Ethics And Music Business Models (Hint, things actually not getting worse for most artists)
(tags: music art media copyright internet business ) - David Cameron should know better than this housing benefit gimmick (and, of course, he does. It's all media fodder)
(tags: welfare housing uk politics Conservatives ) - Reducing tax avoidance: more signs of progress
(tags: tax uk law ) - Housing: the IPPR’s answer
(tags: housing uk politics ) - Coming soon - a Lego movie, with Supermand and Batman, from the makers of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
I loved that movie. And a Lego movie could be awesome.
(tags: lego superman batman movies ) - 11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Versions of Their Books
(tags: movies books ) - German court rules circumcision is bodily harm
(tags: germany law circumcision assault ) - More than 200 church leaders across the USA say they no longer believe in God.
(tags: religion usa belief ) - Why ‘encumbrance’ and ‘forbearance’ are crippling banks and the economy. (Anyone fancy singing a few rounds of The Doom Song?)
The general approach seems to be "If we just prop up all the banks eventually everything will be fine." and I'm just not seeing that as being sustainable indefinitely.
(tags: banks europe EpicFail ) - A day in the life of a startup founder (hilarious)
(tags: business startups technology business satire )
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