Linkdump 17-12-2012
Mon, Dec. 17th, 2012 17:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gominokouhai- Clause and Effect - New York Times
There's a comma that significantly affects the meaning of the Second Amendment. This stuff /matters/. "The best way to make sense of the Second Amendment is to take away all the commas (which, I know, means that only outlaws will have commas)." Too soon?
- Skymaps.com - Publication Quality Sky Maps & Star Charts
Monthly star charts with a calendar of upcoming celestial events. This is /fantastic/. If they had an RSS feed I'd be over the moon, no pun intended.
- Revealed: Job creation agency uses unpaid benefit claimants to find work for others | Daily Record
Come on, tell me you were surprised.
- An honest poll to counteract the Tories’ cowardly one | skwalker1964
I'm not sure what this is intended to achieve, but it's interesting.
- Whatever Barroso says, voting for independence might be the only way for Scotland to stay IN Europe | Herald
ARGH. I collapsed the waveform some time ago and I may no longer be Schroedinger's Nationalist, but now it seems I'm Schroedinger's EU Citizen.
- US judge prompts outrage after saying: ‘If she didn’t want sex, her body should have just shut down’ in rape case, and reducing sentence of attacker by ten years | Independent
Trigger warning for, basically, everything.
- Parents who look after grown-up disabled offspring face benefit cap - The Guardian
Once more unto the breach.
- The Tories' shameful new ad campaign against "the scroungers"
Most damningly, of course, it should be "To whom do you think this government should be giving more support".
- Facebook is scanning private messages for brand page mentions | Digital Trends
I have somebody taking over the work FB page, so with any luck I'll be able to delete my profile soon.
- The Web We Lost - Anil Dash
"By 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links". Oi, Anil, some of us still use Flickr. And I know what else we lost: blog posts that don't come with blatant comment-whoring with a clumsily shoehorned question in the last sentence.
- BBC News - 'Pink slime' lawsuit for Jamie Oliver, ABC and blogger
My arch-nemesis sued by some random bloke who lost his job at a carcass rendering factory, allegedly because Jamie dissed rendered carcasses. I have to admit I'm torn on this one. I don't care who loses as long as somebody does.
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Date: Mon, Dec. 17th, 2012 18:07 (UTC)Is fantastic
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Date: Fri, Dec. 21st, 2012 18:44 (UTC)I think that's going to be my new tagline.