Interesting Links for 7-23-2011
Collected links from around the web
matgbs updated Delicious Glue script.
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How a Business Dies - Tim Worstall's business is in trouble. This pleases him.
One of the things that teaching myself loads of economics is doing is to become even more keen on, and accepting of, the affects of change. Policy makers need to help people as jobs and companies come and go when technology changes, protectionism is stupid. And I really want some nice warm LED lighbulbs to replace the bloody awful sneeze-inducing flourescents that are ubiquitous these days.
(tags: economics progress technology)
Newspapers run scare stories on MPs’ allowances-shoddy journalism and subbing
Look at the headline and first line there. It's known many skim read and never go past the first few paragraphs. You'd think Linda and Craig had done stuff wrong. I campaigned, unsuccesfully, against both these MPs in 2010. Their expenses as published are not only within the rules, they're mostly on staffing costs. Journalists chase a headline and linkbait, devalue respect in a cleaned up system. Just wrong
(tags: journalism parliament calderdale calder-valley halifax craig-whittaker)
"I’ve been suspended from Google+" - so very, very wrong, on so many levels. Wake up Google
I like what Google are doing with Plus. If nothing else, it's competition for Facebook and the cross platform integration with their products makes them more usable. But they really need to get their collective geek heads out of their collective arses and realise the real world doesn't, and in some cases cannot, revolve around the name on someone's birth certificate. For some, it's a preference, for some, it's a longstanding nickname, for some, it's a matter of life and death. Thankfully, that's a small number, but mindnumbingly stupid adherance to daft rules is something I dislike intensely, especially when it stops my friends using something they want to use and I'd like them to use.
(tags: Google+ pseodonymity nicknames web-culture)
You can't stop the Pony - Serenity with a different take
This is silly. So very very silly. But pretty, if you like that sort of thing, and fairly well done.
(tags: video my-little-pony firefly serenity)
Norway « Anders talks Scandinavian cultural stuff
Simply horrifying news from Norway, so many people dead for politics. Anders talks more generally about the scandinavian worldview, and why that island was being used in the first place.
(tags: Norway culture scandinavia)
matgbs updated Delicious Glue script.
comments on the original post on Dreamwidth. I'd prefer it if you comment there[1] if you are able to keep the discussion together. [1] If you are reading this, you very likely have an OpenID.