Interesting Links for 12-08-2013

[andrewducker]

• Hamlet banned by the British Library for being too violent.
  This is what web censorship does. Falsely censors things that you don't expect, while leaving access open to things you would.
  (tags: censorship web )
• There's something linguistically interesting going on here.
  (tags: comic funny language )
• Tracking devices hidden in London's recycling

Comments

[resonant]

Our IT group blocked web pages containing any mention of weapons. Including our own company's website, since we make some missile components.

[kerrypolka]

Think this is a pretty important part of the 'faith'/'intelligence' study:

More than 87 percent of the participants were from the US, the UK, and Canada. So after controlling for other factors, they can only confidently show strong negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity among American Protestants.

[andrewducker]

Yup. Although there are studies that are wider - see the graph 2/3 of the way through.