Interesting Links for 29-06-2012
- The internet will never catch on! (Article from 1995. Looks like satire from this perspective.)
(tags: internet EpicFail history ) - More details (and insider info) on what happened to RBS with their "software glitch".
(tags: rbs software outsourcing EpicFail ) - 35% of Scottish electricity needs came from renewables in 2011 - and 2012 is up 45% on 2011 so far!
(tags: electricity renewables scotland ) - If the writers of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks
I have seen so many coding books which use examples that are whole, useful programs to illustrate things, rather than tiny snippets that a beginner can actually understand.
(tags: maths coding education funny EpicFail ) - JPMorgan's $2Billion Trading Loss May be a teensy bit higher
(tags: banking investment money EpicFail ) - Money-laundering and corruption charges rock Edinburgh council.
As Zornhau put it "HEADS ON SPIKES! BRING BACK IMPALING FOR CORRUPT OFFICIALS!"
(tags: edinburgh corruption crime scotland uk ) - When SCOTUS Upheld Obamacare
(tags: healthcare funny obama law ) - People Who Say They're Moving To Canada Because Of ObamaCare
(tags: healthcare usa canada EpicStupidity ) - A great review of Season 1 of The Legend of Korra which highlights all the things that annoyed me about it.
(tags: review tv avatar ) - Is 40% the maximum level for UK public expenditure?
(tags: economics uk ) - Labour’s cowardice on immigration is sickening (Lib Dems also far too quiet)
(tags: politics labour uk immigration ) - Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren't Remakes, Sequels or Prequels
(tags: thefuture scifi movies ) - Ursula the Sea Witch Forced to Get Liposuction for Disney Villains Beauty Line
(tags: makeup disney weight ) - Verdict on 'not proven' sought from Scottish public
(tags: scotland law ) - Time to scrap the tax on e-books
(tags: ebooks publishing tax europe ) - Scientists come up with spray on battery
(tags: batteries technology ) - Israel stages Holocaust survivor beauty pageant
(tags: israel Holocaust beauty wtf ) - A touching story of intolerance that brought a tear to my eye.
(tags: lgbt bigotry epicwin ) - The Nordic Model - I thoroughly approve
(tags: norway nordic economics society inequality )
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