links for 2011-07-07 08/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment Dear Paul Dacre: there is more to journalism than sales – Angry Mob Nick Davies on phone hacking, Murdoch and News of the World – video | Media | guardian.co.uk 7/7/11 News of the World goes down in flames – but will a 'Sunday Sun' replace it? | Left Foot Forward Scrapbook's digital campaign made life impossible for News of the World advertisers | Political Scrapbook Bill Bailey Covers Enter Sandman by Metallica Dark’n’Ion Stormy: Arkane’s Dishonored | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Yes – equality of opportunity exists CERN Embraces Open Hardware Britain's phone-hacking scandal: Street of shame | The Economist Ten Myths About Patents – Falkvinge on Infopolicy WIPO's Broadcast Treaty is back: copyright nuts want to steal the public domain, kill Creative Commons, and give copyright over your videos to YouTube and other streamers – Boing Boing Twitterwall 1 – Jon Gaunt 0 – The Media Blog Where the aliens are flying their UFOs Now the right turn on Cameron over hackgate | Left Foot Forward Chocolate 3D printer arrives at last (Wired UK) The Daily Mash – Rebekah Brooks' Desert Island Discs Frolicsome Pets – Day 91 The Cult of Deadly Premonition Article – Xbox 360 – Page 1 | Eurogamer.net Hark, a Vagrant: Rum Rebellion fur elise Why Water Doesn’t Help Much with Cooling Your Mouth After Eating Peppers The Golden Age of Capitalism, in pictures Teachers ordered to write ‘I Will Not Strike Again’ a hundred times Why Water Doesn’t Help Much with Cooling Your Mouth After Eating Peppers
links for 2011-07-06 07/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment The death penalty: The political calculus on capital punishment | The Economist 7/6/11 Three Rings : Game Designer Opening RainyMood vs. Turnabout Jazz Soul – Track 8 – Godot – The Fragrance of Dark Coffee by VJ porcelean fire | YouTube Doubler | Mashup Helper New Statesman – Sharing a lift with Richard Dawkins Spintronics discovery bring us one step closer to non-electric electronics (Wired UK) Phone hacking: reading between the lines of Murdoch's statement | Media | guardian.co.uk The perfect light bulb arrives | Felix Salmon Murdoch's boast he has “editorial control on major issues” could come back to haunt him | Left Foot Forward The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : Alice: Madness Returns "World's first anti-nagging medicine for henpecked husbands" proof of god's existence corrupt to depraved YouTube – News Of The World: Der Untergang BBC News – Profile: Labour MP Tom Watson Transformers 3 Optimus Prime | PopWatch | EW.com Christian festivals: A broader church | The Economist The dark side of competition Brian Haw | The Economist Lagarde’s employment contract | Felix Salmon Maybe he already knows how it ends… – The Media Blog The Secret World Has A Savage Coast | Rock, Paper, Shotgun You’ve been training I have just written you a long letter Put it in the Cloud? Are You Nuts? at Literary Abominations COD4 Star Wars mod 'Galactic Warfare' hits final release | Joystiq What is the Future for Rebekah Brooks? « Though Cowards Flinch ‘Relatives of 7/7 victims had phones hacked’ Is the Guardian Harry Potter? ‘Rebekah’s Law’ will list names and addresses of known journalists
links for 2011-07-05 06/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment We're (probably) not living in a hologram (Wired UK) A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: The Tsunami of Crap Darth Hairdryer – Boing Boing H. P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book | Beyond The Beyond Senior councillor visited erotic massage parlour "because of bad back" | Political Scrapbook ongoing by Tim Bray · Things About Google+ BrokenTV: Boycott the News of the World: A Cut-Out-and-Keep Guide New Statesman – Reading what Rebekah Brooks says Homeland Security Working Hard To Make Sure No One Wants To Use .com Or .net Domains | Techdirt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust direct action Rockstar & Team Bondi Part Ways? | Rock, Paper, Shotgun How Ecuador sold itself to China | Felix Salmon What’s Going On? Gaming Trends 2011 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun An Answer For Everything: The Secret World | Rock, Paper, Shotgun YouTube – Easily the funniest magic trick i've ever seen – penn and teller Stumbling and Mumbling: Rebekah Brooks & modern management NYPD Detonates Over 5,000 Pounds of Confiscated Fireworks Express leads call for biscuit awareness | only that in you How the Sun is covering Milly Dowler phone-hack | Liberal Conspiracy Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady Bill Watterson, 1991 | SourceBill Watterson’s letterhead,…
links for 2011-07-04 05/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment Twitpic – How To Edit The Daily Mail Website New Statesman – How widespread was phone hacking in high-profile investigations? Steampunk thinking helmet Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Glorious People's Supermarket Increases Efficiency, Comrades! Former NOTW editor survived after David Cameron intervened with Murdoch | Political Scrapbook News of the World hacked Milly Dowler's voicemail | Minority Thought Zelo Street: Dan, Dan, The Retelling Man BrokenTV: A News of the World employee hacks into the mobile phone voicemail of missing schoolgirl. Is that newsworthy or not? What does the Dilnot Report propose exactly: a primer | Liberal Conspiracy Michael Gove Has Heard Of Videogames | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Forget What Did: He also invented the petard. 'Cling-film' solar cells a new age of renewable energy? (Wired UK) Fierce Geometry – The Work of John Powers Rebekah and Andy are innocent, ok? Apathy Sketchpad » Blog Archive » Can we not save herbal medicine? Wot I Think: Alpha Polaris | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Boris backs Balls on VAT | Liberal Conspiracy Jack of Kent: Another "journalist" associated with the Orwell Prize Mail mirage story is just an illusion | Media | guardian.co.uk What Hemingway would think of the internet (Wired UK) The End of History « Though Cowards Flinch Zelo Street: The Dirty Pursuit Of Hari The Telegraph doesn’t try being a broadsheet when attacking pensions Fox News reports the assassination of Barack Obama while campaigning Dan Brown still counting money from books donated to Oxfam Ray’s Fringe Blog #4 – “Get me Jamie Oliver on this stage NOW” | Peacock and Gamble Slackers launch ‘Sickie’, the new charity for sufferers of minor and fictitious ailments Duck
links for 2011-07-03 04/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment Ed Miliband's identikit responses: for sanity's sake, we must stop him | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian If Ofcom shines a light on BBC News, it should wake up Today | Martin Campbell | Media | The Guardian Stumbling and Mumbling: Arguing against expansionary fiscal contraction Should right-wingers hail Lindsay Lohan tweet? | Liberal Conspiracy Apologists for Andrew Wakefield at Southampton University: a Russell group university teaching some dangerous nonsense Zelo Street: Booker Continues To Make It Up An idea for Johann Hari « Though Cowards Flinch nananananananan BATMAN! language of priorities Pickles letter to Cameron reveals inconvenient truth on benefits cap | Left Foot Forward YouTube – Danny Wallace's How to Start Your Own Country Anthem Standards watchdog launch investigation over taxpayer-funded Lib Dem propaganda | Political Scrapbook Stumbling and Mumbling: The economic base of Blue Labour The untold story of the AV referendum campaign | Left Foot Forward How the government’s own projection of student debt is badly wrong | Liberal Conspiracy Wings over Sealand » Blog Archive » Guess who’s back? "You might not know this, but one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on…" The scientist’s not for turning « Atomic Spin 'Let's Play' videos may soon make you a felon thanks to Senate Bill S.978 | Joystiq at the gate
links for 2011-07-02 03/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment I am the Doctor by stevexr1p on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free We had a 50% tax rate in the last year and fewer people emigrated Hear Me Wail Portal 2 download | Joystiq Letters of Note: Try again, won't you? Oh now this is just getting ridiculous Ray’s Fringe Blog #3 – Mm ba ba de | Peacock and Gamble Twitter outrage guidelines Immigration to Britain: Blaming foreigners for being employable | The Economist IDS is not ‘daring to tell the truth’ about migrant workers | Left Foot Forward Corporal Jones No, statistics are not silly, but their users . . . Tim Harford — Article — More equity, less risk
links for 2011-07-01 02/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment BBC iPlayer – Glastonbury: 2011: Elbow: 6 Music's Glastonbury Headliners BBC News – Tibetan singing bowls give up their chaotic secrets America Is Not The World: XCOM Preview | Rock, Paper, Shotgun The founders and slavery: John Jay saves the day | The Economist yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h06zopp Shared by Basic Instinct – The Triforce Music Exec Says Too Many Silly Things To Put In This Headline | Techdirt Peter Hitchens: Bring back 19th-century prisons | Left Foot Forward 7/1/11 Tories encourage UK households to feed British birds instead of migrants Wikileaks' MasterCard "priceless" ad parody iTunes Festival starts today, streaming live to iPads everywhere (Wired UK) Daily Mail exploits tragic death of child to attack teachers on strike | Political Scrapbook End Of An Era – Beck Barks Out Rum Doings Episode 76 Special: Cory Doctorow & Alice Taylor Miliband nervous breakdown starts early The Kelner years – how the viewspaperman survived despite falling sales | Media | guardian.co.uk 'Supreme Commander' of fake army marches into jail cell (Wired UK) The 1939 Pontiac Ghost Car, the World’s First Transparent Car Halo: Glasslands novel arrives this October | Joystiq » The White and The Red Rose – Day 88 Creatures & Ives Why do the rich threaten to leave but never go? » Tax Research UK Four myths about ‘gold-plated’ public sector pensions | Liberal Conspiracy The Musings of Mister Williams: BAD TEACHERS office rivalries
links for 2011-06-30 01/07/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment Tabloid Watch: Transforming old quotes into a 'new' feature Ericsson exec calls for rethink on EU piracy laws | thinq_ The Misconceptions Of 'Free' Abound; Why Do Brains Stop At The Zero? | Techdirt Zelo Street: Karl At The Crossroads 6/30/11 Valve Summer Sale Incoming? | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Sun's Kelvin MacKenzie to join rival Daily Mail | Media | guardian.co.uk In gaming, free can pay (Wired UK) The ten best signs from the teachers' pension strike protest | Political Scrapbook Telegraph's "£500,000 teachers' pension pot" claim is wrong | Left Foot Forward When a fair chance isn’t an equal chance | Inequalities Warren Ellis » A Few Notes On Marvel Comics’ Digital Strategy Pickles threatens councils publishing papers with judicial review | Media | guardian.co.uk Collins and Herring air their breakup | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk Reality or Law? Nina Paley's Attribution Song – the difference between copying and plagiarism – Boing Boing Why we must cut puppet-master Murdoch's strings | Media | guardian.co.uk Taking a Private Trip in London’s Parliamentary Train Service
links for 2011-06-29 30/06/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment 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
links for 2011-06-28 29/06/2011Uncategorized Leave a Comment 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
