The Blood is The Life 13-01-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Government filthy tricks subvert parliamentary process | A Latent Existence
  I cannot believe that the stooping has gone this low :(
  (tags: bloodytories government )
  
  
• NASA Tests Helper Robots Inspired By Star Wars And Powered By Android | Co.Design
  Robots are cool
  (tags: robots )
  
  
• Dawn Over Tower Bridge
  Absolutely stunning shot of tower bridge
  (tags: photos )
  
  
• Marky Guitar: Lumia lights up my comms
  I want one of these so much
  (tags: phones )
  
  
• Why Samsung Is The Next Apple | TechCrunch
  .... except presumably not so horrendously overpriced....
  (tags: technology )
  
  
• BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true
  One of the ones they have tagged as wrong would have been right if he'd said "a lot of" instead of "all", too....
  (tags: future )
  
  
• This Photograph Is Not Free
  Interesting article on the true cost of an individual photograph.
  (tags: photos )
  
  
• We’ve started manufacture! | Raspberry Pi
  OMG I am so excited about this. As is Holly. The article also details why the finished pi won't be made in the UK. The reasons are entirely understandable, and frankly, Vince, you need to sort this shit out (there's an e-petition here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27158 which I have signed, and encourage you to do too)
  (tags: technology raspberrypi )
  
  
• Mental Illness Community for Skeptics
  Signal Boosting this
  (tags: aspie? )
  
  
• & yet another Sherlockian thing...
  boji has grabs of an interview in the RT with the Ladies of Sherlock. Una Stubbs is awesome 3
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• ESA & DLA Appeals can now be cancelled without evidence
  More truly shocking shafting of the disabled from this govt :(
  (tags: disability )
  
  
• State Rep. Threatens 'to Stomp' Transgender People in "Wrong" Bathrooms
  American politics is so much more pugnacious than ouyrs, isn't it? Glad to see the poll is currently 85% in favour of people using whatever bathrooms they feel like. Me, personally, I like that our local gym/pool complex has one great big changing room (with cubicles for those who need it) for everyone. It's a lot easier than arbitrary division by sex or gender.
  (tags: gender )
  
  
• In Which Eben Moglen Like, Legit Yells at Me for Having Facebook | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
  More interesting stuff about Facebook
  (tags: facebook )
  
  

Comments

[drunkwriter]

The 'true cost of a photograph' article is interesting, but as one who occasionally publishes magazines, I'm tempted to point out that the vast majority of titles I've worked on have had a picture budget of precisely £0.00, and credit/exposure really are all that can be offered. Stock photography keeps the magazine industry afloat, and a special request to use a freelancer's image really is the kindest compliment an art director can offer. It turns from an interesting breakdown of the costs of a hobby wrongly perceived as being cheap, and into one of those 'grumble-grumble-publishing-is-full-of-billions-where's-my-cut' whinges. (For a start, more magazine editorial than the writer would believe possible is published on an unpaid basis).

I should probably go and post all this on that guy's site, but I imagine it wouldn't go down well.

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, that's why I said "interesting" rather than "OMG WE SHOULD CAMPAIGN ABOUT THIS!" - it's clearly a one-sided report.

[drunkwriter]

Actually, the more I read it the less I'm interested. I think a large part of it is just him cock-jousting about his expensive camera and software.