Interesting Links for 25-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
  (tags: illusion typography design font )
• A plausible explanation for why we just started paying VAT on hot food
  (tags: food europe uk tax vat )
• When copyright holders go insane.
  (tags: wtf twighlight law copyright )
• The injustice of minimum alcohol pricing
  (tags: uk pricing alcohol )
• An efficient journal - running

Comments

[camies]

And minimum alcohol pricing doesn't stop the supermarkets from undercutting the price of decent beer in off licences, pubs etc.

[naath]

What I don't understand is why they say that the minimum price won't affect the price of more expensive alcohol - shops generally seem to want to price the "better" stuff higher; if they have to put the cheapest stuff up by a pound then surely everything else will also go up by a pound to preserve the connection between price and quality (as determined by the shop)?

[andrewducker]

Indeed:
http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1228295.html

[danieldwilliam]

Deeply uncertain about minimum pricing. If we’re going to have minimum pricing I’d rather it was all done through the tax system so the cash generated went to funding the fall out from our drinking habits