Linkdump 07-01-2013
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gominokouhai- Pretending to see the future | Wings Over Scotland
A pound. It'll cost a pound to be rid of the Tories forever. One bloody pound. And somebody thought this presented a convincing case for the No campaign?
- Tory manifesto blueprint: lower benefits for Northerners and longer school days - Telegraph
Cancel the kitchen scraps for beggars and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and CALL OFF CHRISTMAS.
- Hidden posters of Notting Hill Gate Tube station, 2010 - a set on Flickr
Dating from the late 50s.
- Abandoned Porn
[not really porn]
- Time Capsule Mansion Opened After 100 Years | National Geographic
"Mantin, who died in 1905, stated in his will that the house should be opened to the public a hundred years after his death."
- Soldiers, teachers, cashiers and nurses: faces of the benefit cuts
More on Gideon being an unrepentant bastard.
- Saturday Silly today comes courtesy of Andy Burnham MP
Then they came for my cereal, and there was no one left to speak up.
- An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4. Completely. — 24100.NET
Apparently Android 4.2 goes vroom. Loking forward to my next upgrade, then.
- Voters 'brainwashed by Tory welfare myths', shows new poll | Indy
"people who know least about the facts are the most hostile towards claimants."
- 'It's like I'm an axe murderer': MP tries to find out why voters hate politicians | Graun
Baby, if you gotta ask, you'l never know. She can't be a particularly good MP if she's so bloody clueless about popular opinion.
- Plot Holes in World War II | Straight Dope
"Apparently we're supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be? And that they diverted all their resources to use in making ever bigger and scarier death camps, even in the middle of a huge war? Real people just aren't that evil."
- 2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web | McGarr Solicitors
"Recap: The Newspapers’ agent demanded an annual payment from a women’s domestic violence charity because they said they owned copyright in a link to the newspapers’ public website."
- Woman finds note from Chinese labor camp prisoner in Kmart decorations
Might put a downer on anyone's Christmas. "Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever."
- London, Underground – The New Inquiry
Worth remembering.
- ‘Dickensian’ proposals to outlaw begging in Aberdeen condemned
Typical bloody Aberdeen.
- Short Cuts | LRB
"Pret will have been disappointed to discover that any of its staff were unhappy enough in their work to have want of a union. Pret workers aren’t supposed to be unhappy. They are recruited precisely for their ‘personality’, in the sense that a talent show host might use the word." There has been a disturbing trend in the service industry for a while to employ people on the basis of a mindset.
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