Interesting Links for 20-08-2013
- "Dirty Dancing" Is a subversive masterpiece and here are four reasons why
(tags: abortion movies usa ) - The Windows 8 real-time clock is not actually real-time.
(tags: time epicfail windows microsoft ) - Telling white kids "Everyone's the same" does nothing to help.
(tags: children race ) - J.R.R. Tolkien’s foremost (and only) Yiddish-language translator
(tags: Tolkien jewish ) - How the UK government threatened The Guardian and smashed their computers
(tags: journalism uk censorship government media ) - Guardian editor “cannot explain” why GCHQ agents destroyed computers at their offices
(tags: uk censorship guardian government ) - LSD and other psychedelics not linked with mental health problems
(tags: psychedelics mentalhealth lsd ) - Where is the Lib-Dem response to David Miranda's detention?
(tags: politics uk libdem ) - On comedy, feminism and rape jokes at this year's Edinburgh Fringe
(tags: edinburgh jokes comedy rape fringe ) - Male bosses apparently twice as good as female bosses.
(tags: uk pay gender ) - Independent journalist scandalised by polygamy (count the "scare quotes")
(tags: journalism polygamy relationships )
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