Interesting Links for 22-02-2018
Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series, for Television
I mostly want it to be successful so they make Player of Games.
(tags: Amazon TheCulture tv IainBanks scifi ) Hundreds Of Homeless Slaves Recruited On UK Streets (Government completely incompetent) (tags: slavery UK homelessness OhForFucksSake ) Scottish Greens won't enter budget negotiations next year unless council tax reform is underway (tags: tax Scotland GreenParty ) Disneyland withholds bonuses for hotel workers until they agree to contract offer (tags: Disney pay money ) I am _fascinated_ by how badly KFC have cocked up their deliveries (tags: kfc food transport epicfail ) Japanese 'Prince' Switched at Birth Was Raised a Pauper (tags: epicfail identity Japan children ) Wrong haircut? No education for you! (tags: school hair UK OhForFucksSake ) Ancient Britons 'replaced' by newcomers, 4,500 years ago (tags: prehistory uk europe ) Whovian Feminism - A #MeToo Moment Unfolds At Gallifrey One (tags: drwho women abuse acting ) Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes I wonder if this would also apply to reselling music CDs after Amazon has applied the downloads to your account
(tags: copyright Disney movies ) The environmentalists using gene editing to wipe out invasive species (tags: environment genetics ) Major study finds that anti-depressants work. Which is good, because up until now we've just been plugging random chemicals into people's brains without any testing. (tags: antidepressants research ) TV viewing is dropping, and advertising along with it (tags: advertising tv ) Europe forces UK to stop poisoning its populace (tags: pollution UK Europe ) Boston Dynamics is teaching its robot dog to fight back against humans (tags: robots war ) Why Is the Manhattan DA Looking at Newsweek’s Ties to a Christian University? (The Editor's Notes are _astonishing_) (tags: media journalism OhForFucksSake viaSwampers ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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(tags: Amazon TheCulture tv IainBanks scifi ) Hundreds Of Homeless Slaves Recruited On UK Streets (Government completely incompetent) (tags: slavery UK homelessness OhForFucksSake ) Scottish Greens won't enter budget negotiations next year unless council tax reform is underway (tags: tax Scotland GreenParty ) Disneyland withholds bonuses for hotel workers until they agree to contract offer (tags: Disney pay money ) I am _fascinated_ by how badly KFC have cocked up their deliveries (tags: kfc food transport epicfail ) Japanese 'Prince' Switched at Birth Was Raised a Pauper (tags: epicfail identity Japan children ) Wrong haircut? No education for you! (tags: school hair UK OhForFucksSake ) Ancient Britons 'replaced' by newcomers, 4,500 years ago (tags: prehistory uk europe ) Whovian Feminism - A #MeToo Moment Unfolds At Gallifrey One (tags: drwho women abuse acting ) Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes I wonder if this would also apply to reselling music CDs after Amazon has applied the downloads to your account
(tags: copyright Disney movies ) The environmentalists using gene editing to wipe out invasive species (tags: environment genetics ) Major study finds that anti-depressants work. Which is good, because up until now we've just been plugging random chemicals into people's brains without any testing. (tags: antidepressants research ) TV viewing is dropping, and advertising along with it (tags: advertising tv ) Europe forces UK to stop poisoning its populace (tags: pollution UK Europe ) Boston Dynamics is teaching its robot dog to fight back against humans (tags: robots war ) Why Is the Manhattan DA Looking at Newsweek’s Ties to a Christian University? (The Editor's Notes are _astonishing_) (tags: media journalism OhForFucksSake viaSwampers ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
comments there.