Links for Monday January 7th 2013

  • The King William’s College quiz 2012 | From the Guardian | The Guardian
    Every year King William's College on the Isle of Man sets its students a quiz, which they sit twice – once, sight unseen, before the Christmas break, and then again *after* the holidays (they are permitted to take the paper home and look up the answers). It has 180 questions. If you can answer more than about 2 or 3 of them without looking the answers up, you are doing well. If you can answer more that 10 without looking the answers up, you're doing *brilliantly*. This is this year's quiz – the answers should be published later this month.

Links for Monday October 22nd 2012

  • Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund
    This story, if true, is just mind-blowing. Amazon have contacted a women to tell her that her account has been closed, because it has been linked with another account that has be closed "for abuse". The woman protests that she has no idea what they're talking about – she has only ever had one amazon account. Amazon refuse to tell her any more, tell her it's against their policies to divulge any further information, and inform her that if she opens any future accounts, they will be closed at all. In closing her account, they have deleted everything from her kindle, with nothing she can do about it, because they will not enter into any dialogue at all about it.