Interesting Links for 27-05-2013

[andrewducker]

• Want to give money directly to poor people in Africa, to use to but the things they know they need? Now you can.
  (tags: poverty money africa charity )
• American Apparel have incredibly different photos of men and women in unisex clothing. Horrifying, frankly.
  (tags: clothes advertising gender )
• Old Church Converted into a Modern Bookstore. Gorgeous

Comments

[poisonduk]

Well I always wear my check shirts without knickers - gives me funny looks in Asda though!

[gonzo21]

Oh good grief, so Labour are jumping in bed with the Tories over the snoopers charter, but then they always wanted it too didn't they. Just they never thought they could get away with it, and now they've got a perfect excuse. Bloody disgusting, the lot of them.

Another reason to vote for Scottish independence I guess. I'd guess Holyrood would opt out if they could.

[skington]

It would only be an effective opt-out if there were enough Scotland-only ISPs. Until then, your ISP will still have to snoop on everything, and might well be under English law anyway.

[gonzo21]

Ah yes, good point, all of our ISPs would remain English companies wouldn't they.

Hmm, I wonder what happens to BT under independence. Who runs an independent Scotland's telecoms systems?

Some people just need to be smacked with a big stick

[andrewducker]

BT, being a private company, would still own the same things it already did.

We'd need to change regulation, of course.

[innerbrat]

Good lord, I went to the American Apparel site, because I thought that bog was too ridiculous to be true.

- they have ladies licking their fingers on the front page.

[gonzo21]

You can search specifically for images of the models too, as far as I can tell it's basically an amateur softcore porn site.

[alitheapipkin]

Oh. My.

I'd hoped it wasn't true either but hadn't got around to checking because I'm still at work. So never buying anything from them.

[octopoid_horror]

American Apparel has been fairly notorious for some of its advertising/promotional imagery in the past.

[drdoug]

I misread the headline as "High levels of horse ownership can seriously damage the labor market", which I think would qualify for your wtf? tag. Although my brain's already generating plausible mechanisms.

[fub]

I've been in the Selexyz Maastricht. Beautiful place, indeed!
The chain went under, though, and was bought by another chain of second-hand bookstores. The stores are still open, but no-one knows for how long and what the format's going to be...