Uncategorized links for 2011-06-29 Michael Gove's own council opposes using parents to break teachers' strike | Political Scrapbook The Age of Uncertainty: How I Would Save Waterstone's* Defending tau « Atomic Spin Stumbling and Mumbling: Johann Hari: art vs reality Attention, Writers: RPS Is Recruiting | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Warren Ellis » DC And Digital Comics Strategies Margaret Thatcher in 1975: union rights should be protected | Political Scrapbook Information Blanket provides warmth and welfare advice (Wired UK) World of Warcraft goes free to play for first 20 levels (Wired UK) Five Chinese Crackers: The inevitable Johann Hari post Found in a kitchen frequented by our Daily Charts team. Those… The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Infamous 2 ghost ham Turbulent Times: Planes Can Be Scary – Botherer Ray’s Fringe Blog #1 – Intro | Peacock and Gamble Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-28 Song by Scottish Band Released on Playable Chocolate Record Transformers: Dark of the Moon Why Melanie Phillips quit The Spectator | Media | guardian.co.uk Factcheck: Michael Gove's case for schools reform: do the claims stack up? | Full Fact Capcom's Resident Evil DRM Is Evil: You Get To Play The Game Once And That's It 6/28/11 Zelo Street: TPA And HS2 – Asking The Right Question Blood & Treasure: borrow all your babies and pass them off as yours The TaxPayers Alliance and their disingenuous polling Five Chinese Crackers: How confirmation bias works and how to deploy the strawman with Richard Littlejohn Zelo Street: Littlejohn And Those Blazing Trousers "One Day Like This" by Elbow on "Live At Abbey Rd" – Grooveshark Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-27 Hollywoodonomics: how Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix "lost" $167M 6/27/11 Not all those who wander are lost kateoplis:London’s Westminster Bridge and the Houses of… Priorities Eve Online in Crisis Article – MMO – Page 1 | Eurogamer.net Warren Ellis » A Collection Of Rambling On The Subject Of Digital Comics Gove's call for parents to act as strikebreakers savaged by Mumsnet | Left Foot Forward Prince: Digital Music Has A Different Impact On Your Brain Pictured: Hypocrite Michael Gove on a trade union picket line Defeated council leader so bitter he wouldn’t let successor use “his desk” Why insider dealing is so attractive to hedge funds | Felix Salmon "Mr Blue Sky" by ELO – Electric Light Orchestra on "Out Of The Blue" – Grooveshark Michael Gove warns teachers, but he too went on strike | Liberal Conspiracy treacle The Limited Edition Cheap T-Shirt, Gone in 24hours! | TeeFury a dated reference to lost (1 Comment) Parents to break Michael Gove A Lesson In False Economy Row erupts over Bono not being held offshore Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-26 Peter Hitchens criticises BBC for doing something Mail did too | Minority Thought Zelo Street: The Shamelessness Of Edward Timpson Labour must make this a resigning matter for Pickles « Though Cowards Flinch Lesson one: when it comes to the crunch, private sector knows best | David Mitchell | Comment is free | The Observer Define the Ratio of People to Cake by Giles Turnbull – The Morning News Stumbling and Mumbling: Harold Shipman: typically middle class LulzSec Over, Release Battlefield Heroes Data Post Office Counters hit by DDoS attacks Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-25 YouTube – David Cameron exposed Why Did L.A. Noire Take Seven Years to Make? Stumbling and Mumbling: Libertarians & capital punishment Dangerous Minds | Alex Jones ‘DMT elves want the elites to kill us all’ The Truth About The Tea Party CCP Defends Eve’s Crazy Clothes Costs The Enigma Variations Alt Text: After Duke Nukem PR Fail, Terrible Games Are Fair … Michele Bachmann's Holy War Fat convicts set free to cut prison overcrowding Smashing plates won’t rescue this taverna Hackers publish "private" Tony Blair info I am sorry but regardless of which price you pay your service will be exactly the same. Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-24 No New Hope: Star Wars Galaxies Closing | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Bin Laden wanted a marketing makeover for al Qaeda, compound documents show A prayer for the Olympics (tickets please) Brand Reversions, Clever Logo Mashups of Competing Companies YouTube – Yoshi's Island athletic theme, sight-read by Tom Brier & Co. Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Megan Pallante.J.R.R…. New Statesman – Goodbye Melanie! Superheroes as Flags How to make a clock run for 10,000 years (Wired UK) Glasto, where the tax dodgers are named | Left Foot Forward BBC News – 'Doctor Who' child bollards prompt Plymouth rethink The Robinhood Tax is now on the verge of becoming a reality | Liberal Conspiracy New report: ‘Royals cost us over £200m a year’ | Liberal Conspiracy Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-23 Daily Mail threatens blogger with libel over 2-year old post | Liberal Conspiracy Jose Antonio Vargas: How much do liars lie? | The Economist He must’ve tripped Author Of 'Go The F**k To Sleep' Says Piracy Helped Him… But He Doesn't Support It Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo was only the start BBC News – SpongeBob lends name to new mushroom species The Problem of Choice, Another Brilliant RSA Animate Lecture Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 preview: COGwarts Bookcase in a stairwell that you access via bosun's chair 1 in 25 adults buy the Daily Mail Cameron and Clegg: worse than Daleks? | Media Monkey UK Lobbyists Claim UK Software Industry In Trouble Because It Doesn't Have Software Patents YouTube – Doctor Who Theme Tune 1980-1985 by Peter Howell The Daily Mash – JK Rowling's next project revealed as trying to spend all the money Baroness says House of Lords “isn’t undemocratic” Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-22 Look ma! A lion! Britain’s most punchable man ‘upset’ as title goes to Michael Gove The Daily Mash – Fish defeated Five real-world arcologies under construction (Wired UK) Obsolete: And yet again, the tabloids win. Sound recordings: The sound of silence | The Economist Gove uses incorrect physics reference while calling for harder exams What Happens Online In 60 Seconds INDIANA JONES AND THE RIGHT HAND OF DOOM! Double Whammy Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray P.S. I’ll be… 6/21/11 Public school ponce acts pretty ballsy Humans could have geomagnetic sight Tabloid rage wins the sentencing argument CryoSat reveals first map of Arctic ice thickness A “political coward” running a “car crash” coalition – the damning verdict on U-turn Cam The Mouse That Roared Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-20 With Fire & Sword – Captain Smith, Pt. 4 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Walmart and class-action lawsuits: A Supreme Court ruling worth checking out | The Economist 'due to misspelling the word bird' The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Analog Era | Techdirt Neoliberalism: That was the Summers of my rental-car washing | The Economist How to stop the libertarians killing poor people (part 1 of 2) « Though Cowards Flinch Factcheck: Can the disabled claim "free" BMWs? | Full Fact Google brings 250,000 British Library tomes to the masses (Wired UK) Kindle (‘slightly foxed’) fetches record price The domicile rules on tax are illegal discrimination on the grounds of national origin » Tax Research UK HMRC moves to tackle tax evasion welcome – but it will not work without more people to enforce it » Tax Research UK When secret satellites spy on us, Monsieur Legault spies back (Wired UK) Language Log » Strictly incompetent: pompous garbage from Simon Heffer MetaCritique Ratings & The Inner Circle – Split Screen Bilderberg 2011: The tipping point | World news | guardian.co.uk Zelo Street: More In Sorrow Than In Anger – 1 New Statesman – Fox News puts Jon Stewart on the spot ICANN votes to roll out 400-800 new generic top-level domains – Boing Boing New Statesman – "Adam Curtis believed that 200,000 Guardian readers watching BBC2 could change the world…" Myth buffer: with Trollhunter, André Øvredal modernises fairy tales (Wired UK) guide Standard
Uncategorized links for 2011-06-18 Great news – Osborne looks at cutting higher rate tax relief on pensions ‘I’m not a Nazi but…’ Why Washington Ignores an Economic Prophet – Newsweek What Labour should learn from Coronation Street Animals Being Dicks Of sacred cows and wise turkeys Standard
