The Blood is The Life 19-01-2013
Saturday, January 19th, 2013 09:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- Mobile operator 3 are censoring political satire as if it was porn.
Hands up anyone who is surprised?
- The Lab powered by O2 » How do you manage?
Managing geeks is the same as managing other people - value their skills and don't treat them like menial robots.
- How a Fourth of the Cow Genome Came from Snakes
Very cool and not intuitive at all.
- Nick Barlow on the pointlessness of pre-trailed political speeches.
- UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites
More on mobile ISP censorship.
- Observer readers' editor self-flagellates about Burchill
Says lessona have been learned. It'll be interesting to see what lessons, and if they really have been learned.
- The Limits of Free Speech
"it is argued that press freedom is about an elite having the right to express themselves in splendid isolation and beyond the reach of the bullying masses. Sorry, but that’s another thumbs down from me. That’s not freedom: that’s privilege and somewhere, somehow, its an issue that needs to be addressed."
- For those New Whovians who don't have time for Classic Who: A short summary of each Doctor
There's only Five that I think is really unrepresentative, because Five is not unconscious/clutching his head in agony in it.
- recession austerity and the dirty politics of welfare reform
"The modern social security system was designed during a period of near full employment as a safety net for household earners experiencing temporary periods of unemployment or unexpected onset of illness or disability. Other benefits, meanwhile, like state pensions and child benefit, were universal and contributed significantly to the incomes of a large portion of the population. Since the 1980s, however, unemployment and new and expanded forms of economic inactivity (eg. retirement, caring) have become permanent features of the economy, falling unevenly across Britain's regions and demographic groups. A rise in means-testing to target benefits towards the most needy began to loosen the connection that those on modest or middle incomes felt towards the welfare state, and the sympathy they felt towards those who received them. It is in the context of such transformations that tabloid myths about welfare have been able to take hold."
- Cameron promises to cram yet more peers into the Lords | Michael Crick on Politics
House of Lords go kaboom?
- Paris Lees, Jane Fae, CL Minou, Stuart Crawford
these are beautiful.
- a kickstarter worth supporting of you have any spare brass
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Date: Saturday, January 19th, 2013 10:11 am (UTC)I really like Daniel Pink's ideas about motivation, the main thing being what really motivates people is not money but autonomy, mastery and purpose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuF