• Samsung: watch what you say in front of our TVs, they're sending your words to third parties
  (tags: samsung tv surveillance )
• Is 50 Shades of Grey abuse?
  (tags: FiftyShadesOfGrey abuse bdsm )
• If you don’t genetically engineer your kids, you are a bad parent. It’s that simple.
  (tags: genetics parenting fiction scifi vaccination funny )
• Girls ( Read more... )

• Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay
  (tags: guantanamo usa )
• Iain Banks marries in his favourite place
  (tags: IainBanks )
• Why you should avoid rar files.
  (tags: antivirus compression )
• How the Internet amplifies irrational group behavior
  (tags: behaviour internet groups )
• Why IT Security is so hard.
  (tags: epicfail security viafanf )

• Why voice over 4G is going to suck for the next two years
  (tags: voip voice internet phones 4g )
• Man sends sexy text to entire address book by accident, is jailed and put on sex offenders register
  What the fuck is the point of this? I mean, really? How is this person a danger to anyone?
  (tags: text phones sex EpicFail uk law )
• "I am so goth, ( Read more... )

• A terribly informative piece on same-sex marriage and Canada
  (tags: viaJamesNicoll canada lgbt marriage law )
• Myths about Memory. Dammit! I believed some of these!
  (tags: memory myths )
• 16 Things Atheists Need Christians to Know
  (tags: atheism religion christianity )
• Waah! Women appear in computer games now! Waaah!
  (tags: women gaming ( Read more... )

• There is "disagreement" over whether an independent Scotland would be part of the EU
  (tags: Europe scotland uk independence )
• Will Britain get its EU Referendum after all?
  (tags: Europe politics uk )
• Nokia launches Windows Phone range. Looks shiny, but too locked down for me.
  (tags: Windows MobilePhones nokia )
• Ken Clarke in rift with Theresa May ( Read more... )

Nice Guardian article here on the rise of the goths.  Apparently there are now an awful lot of lawyers, doctors, dentists and academics out there who are (ex-)goths.  They're taking over the world!

Here is a piece on two (popular) girls who carried out a simple psychology experiment.  One of them dressed up as a goth and then they both went for job interviews in local stores.  They padded the resume of the one who was dressed up more gothily, while the other claimed to have no retail experience at all ( Read more... )