Linkdump 15-01-2013
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gominokouhai- The Observer publishes transphobic hate speech by Julie Burchill | The F-Word
Your one-stop roundup of the whole debacle, with links.
- Life on benefits: The starving of the 11 million
"I spent a WHOLE WEEK on benefits and I had to give up my hazelnut mocha latte and it was SO HARD". Fair play to the guy for trying, but this really ought to be obvious stuff. The key bit is in the last line where he can't wait for the week to be over. A lot of people don't get that freedom.
- Return to the fifties
While we're on the subject: the middle-class austerity drive. No I have not and never have been in benefits-level poverty, but I know all about counting slices of bread and stretching leftovers out.
- How Your Average Whovian Views The Doctors (a parody. There may be some slight exaggeration)
Spot. On.
- On the state of Windows on the desktop
Not yet ready for primetime.
- This is everyone else writing Javascript
I can't speak for the book, but this is possibly the best analogy ever made. Some beautiful camerawork in the second piece too.
- Toby Young trips up on troglodytes | Edinburgh Eye
"Toby Young proudly brags that he failed his O-Levels and did a stint of workfare and still got into Oxford and became the man he is today, and therefore anyone else could do the same if they worked as hard as he did: he always forgets to mention that his father was Baron Young of Dartington. "
- Classic Who facts you never knew, #74
Actually, this one we pretty much all knew.
- A Return to Sovereign Money? | Open Democracy
Anything with the Chicago School in it makes me nervous. But this seems to be well thought out and is reasonably well argued, and "we always have to remember with such proposals that we are not necessarily trying to solve all the world’s problems – merely making an improvement on the current situation. And one thing we can be very sure about is that the current situation – with the financial system dominated by a small number of tax-payer supported ‘too-big-to-fail’ behemouth banks – is about as dysfunctional as its possible to imagine."
- Spare a thought for HMV, but don’t spare a thought for the customer
The impact on the regular folks. Or course a week from now they'll all be labelled scroungers.
- UK jobs soar – but how many of these jobs are real? | Graun
"Phantom jobs".
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Date: Tue, Jan. 15th, 2013 17:49 (UTC)Except I bizarrely switch to New Whovian when Matt Smith shows up.
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Date: Fri, Jan. 25th, 2013 21:34 (UTC)I kid. Or do I?
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Date: Wed, Jan. 16th, 2013 09:58 (UTC)It scares me that such a person is influencing pedagogy in this country.
More cuts
Date: Wed, Jan. 16th, 2013 16:35 (UTC)http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/patric
Basically the condems are cutting the money the central gvt gives to councils, but not letting them raise council tax. Naturally the first things cut are services to vulnerable people.
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Calcinations