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A recent experience with PayPal Customer Service.
This truly beggars belief.
(tags: epicfail )
How Copyright Industries Con Congress
This is US specific, but applies to how the creative industries are creative with their figures in the UK too.
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Striking a Pose (Women and Fantasy Covers)
Jim Hines tries to get into some of the poses artists draw women characters in.
(tags: gender )
Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution
This sounds dead on the money to me.
(tags: apple )
Appropriate Attire
* cackle *
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A Map of Woman's Heart: Rare Vintage Gem from the 1800s | Brain Pickings
Lordy, this is hilarious. And would be funnier if some people didn't still think like that...
(tags: gender maps )
Is Sherlock sexist? Steven Moffat's wanton women
The comments on this are, frankly, terrifying.
(tags: gender sherlock )

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 )

How Facebook's targeted advertising destroyed the life of a young man | Privacy International
This is why I deleted all my friends from facebook, and when I have to use it for page maintenance, I use it in a browser that I don't use for anything other than facebook; this way the only thing they can track is that I use facebook....
(tags: facebook )
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 )

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