The Blood is The Life 08-05-2012

[miss_s_b]

• A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy
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• Worried about online porn? Don't regulate the net – regulate your kids | Charles Arthur | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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• Interesting list of rules for future elections
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• such_heightson sexism in reviews of the Avengers movie
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• 52% of people support electoral reform of some kind
  This does not correlate with the number of people who will vote for AV, obvs.
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• Write your own Terrance Dicks novelisation
  OMG this is hilarious
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• Politics: A Dialogue
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• Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational
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• French Rule that Smoking Albert Camus Photo by Cartier-Bresson Is a “Work of Art;” Can Remain on Display - Imaging Resource
  This reminds me of all those temples in India that the Victorian British defaced or demolished for having naughty bits on them, and now we're ruing it because ALL THAT HISTORY man. In a hundred years' time I suspect nobody will smoke. But that doesn't mean that we don't need to have a record that we did. Also STOP AIRBRUSHING THE COVER OF ABBEY ROAD for similar reasons.
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Comments

[yoyoangel]

O2 and Orange have apparently decided that my work's website is porn. The "technical solution" doesn't work, even if it was a good idea.

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, I linked to that story the other day. It's bloody stupid.

[yoyoangel]

It is bloody stupid. (Sorry I missed the link - been away.)

[miss_s_b]

No worries! Better safe than sorry IMHO; I'd rather be told about something like that twice (or five times for that matter) than miss it.

[yoyoangel]

*nods*
And I only found out about it today when I got back to work to all the WTF-ing emails. Thankfully it's not my responsibility to sort out!

[gominokouhai]

Nonono. It's From the outside, it looked like a perfectly ordinary police box.