Interesting Links for 11-09-2014

[andrewducker]

• Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy
  (tags: 4chan abuse harrassment gaming conspiracy women )
• What Independence Referendum polls are still to come?
  (tags: independence referendum poll )
• Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
  (tags: transport cars Finland )
• The end of the Apple spectacle
  (tags

Comments

[steer]

I think that #gamergate is now in the "everyone involved loses" category. "I'm trolling you" "No, I'm trolling you."

https://storify.com/strictmachine/gameovergate

"I guess it's a good time to mention that I've been lurking in & recording 4chan's raid IRC channels for a few weeks"

Riiiiiight... so you *could* have shut all this down a long time ago and not bothered the world with it?

[quirkytizzy]

God's honest truth, the only reason I've never watched MLP is because I know - I just KNOW - I'm gonna fall madly in love with it. *sigh*

Still, that was a wonderfully human piece - that article you linked to. Thank you for that.

[andrewducker]

Glad you liked it.

And you should give it a go.

Just put aside a few days to get caught up :->

I'd love it if he were

[pr1ss]

We thought Beethoven was black, but then we had the portrait professionally cleaned, and he looks a lot paler.