The Blood is The Life 05-04-2012
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 10:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- No need to hack phones - we stitch ourselves up | Anna Blundy
The only comment needed on the Samantha Brick Nowtrage
- Clothes and Self-Perception - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article on how the clothes you wear can allegedly make a real difference to how your brain works. I'd love to see more research on this.
- Where Are the Women Writers? (ASME Edition) | Mother Jones
- The Daily Mash - Totally inept losers confident they can lock down the internet
- Education, Skills & Slavery... and why we're probably screwed. | Marcus Povey
Yup, this all looks pretty accurate to me. The tinfoil hat wearing devil on my left shoulder says this is probably WHY even the Lib Dems are aquiescing to ramping up of surveillance, whether consciously or not.
- A Whip to Beat Us With
Why publishers who aquiesce to retailers demands for DRM are signing their own death warrant.
- Nick Clegg pledges to oppose some government plans right up until the local elections are over
Oooo the cynicism
- Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all - World Politics - World - The Independent
Terrifying.
- After the riots, the Liberal Democrats stood by me | Pauline Pearce | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The comments on this are the usual Grauniad/CiF horror, but the article is heartwarming.
- Can a neurotypical understand what autism is? — Crooked Timber
Interesting post and comments
- New Statesman - The compassionate case for legal abortion
Brilliant, BRILLIANT piece.
- New Statesman - Saying women don't take risks is sexist
Another fabulous article in the Staggers. It's just a shame the comments threads are always such a sewer on there. Almost on a par with CiF...
- oh trees wtf
Lanning has a series of haiku about what it's like to have hayfever
- What makes a person?
Fabulous poem with accompanying art.
- Ten things not to say to a depressed person | purplepersuasion
Number one of a pair
- Ten supportive things I’m glad somebody said to me | purplepersuasion
Number two of a pair
- Brighouse Ward: Statement of persons nominated: Calderdale Council
VOTE ME!
- Dapper Dinos
LOL this is hilarious. I love the sonnet!
- On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women - NYTimes.com
- Liberal England: Nick Clegg needs to be in better touch with Lib Dem opinion
Yup.
- comics which may make you smile
A useful list of interesting and/or amusing webcomics, for those who are timeheavy at the mo.
This post has been tagged:
no subject
Date: Thursday, April 5th, 2012 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, April 5th, 2012 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, April 5th, 2012 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, April 6th, 2012 08:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, April 6th, 2012 11:46 am (UTC)