Interesting Links for 08-06-2013

[andrewducker]

• You know the NSA had a pipeline into the world's largest internet companies? They were feeding info to the Brits...
  (tags: uk spying privacy usa intelligence )
• What I want from the next Doctor
  (tags: drwho )
• Finally, an explanation for why bacon is so tasty
  (tags: funny bacon )
• The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
  (tags: funny success )
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Comments

[gonzo21]

You know, something else that strikes me about this cover intelligence gathering that's been going on with the assistence of Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc.

Microsoft are about to release this new console. This new console ships with a microphone and a camera that are always on. This new console is switched on constantly listening for users. This new console has to be connected to the internet otherwise it bricks itself after 24 hours. Microsoft have PROMISED they would NEVER use it to spy on people.

... and yet, leaked NSA documents yesterday have implicated Microsoft in providing backdoors to the government to assist them in illegal information gathering operations.

Microsofts claims that the xbone won't spy on people are sounding increasingly hollow.

[danieldwilliam]

I agree with Neil Gaimen.

I think Ecclestone was a good choice for a re-launch and Tennant was hip & up & coming when he was cast. I think the programme is plenty strong enough to stand casting another actor who is not very well known.

[philmophlegm]

Me too.

There is a problem with casting a relative unknown if you do know him from something ridiculous. One of the three actors which Starburst is heavily tipping has played a number of roles according to his IMDB entry. But I only know him from his "cheerfully racist" portrayal of 'Parking Pataweyo', the traffic warden in the Harry and Paul sketch shows. I might have as hard a time adapting to him as the Doctor as I did to seeing 'Tristan Farnon' become the Doctor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw5d8GwEC2s

[bart_calendar]

That part of New Jersey has seen weirder. When I was a journalist there about 15 years ago someone called me up and told me there was a tiger sleeping in her back yard. I thought she was full of shit but went down with a photographer and there it was. We called the cops who were like "get the fuck away from the tiger."

Turns out some woman in a nearby town was running her own private tiger sanctuary in the woods and one had got out.

[bohemiancoast]

Not convinced that snorkelling is a habit of highly successful people. Yachting for sure, and polo. But snorkelling is cheap and accessible (even more so than skiing), and the actually expensive sport, scuba, is probably a bit geeky for this list.

[philmophlegm]

Yeah I thought that. You see very chavvy janner kids doing it down here.

Golf doesn't strike me as particularly restricted to highly successful people either (I mean my dad played golf, and he was a factory worker). Maybe it depends where in the world you are. I suspect that skiiing is pretty universal if you grow up in Austria or Switzerland.