- London 2012 Olympics fails at Internet | THE FREE SPEECH BLOG
It turns out that a certain organisation of dogshit peddlers disguised as sporting event is trying to tell people under what circumstances they may links to said organisation's website. I would put a link to their site calling them a bunch of cunts, in direct violation of those policies, but it turns out I've already done that, years ago, when they first announced the logo, and before they had the ludicrous policy of attempting to tell people what they could do with their own, totally unaffiliated websites.
God, I really do hate the Olympics. I sort of hope everyone who is in any way involved with it gets ebola and dies. Except Doug.
Excuse me, I have to go take a few deep breaths now.
- New Statesman – Lansley opens the door to full-scale NHS privatisation
Oh look: the NHS is now over. And yet for some reason no-one is hounding Andrew Lansley through the streets with whips made from scorpions. Why are we not doing this? I mean, it can't be a crime, can it? To hound scumbags and monsters with whips made from scorpions?
Tag: nhs
Bookmarks for March 9, 2012
- What will the #NHSbill do? I don't think you're worried enough. Read this, maybe write to your MP. – bengoldacre – secondary blog
Just in case you're in the UK and have missed this, here's Ben Goldacre, on the bald facts of the NHS Bill, which are basically that it clearly signals the end of free healthcare in Britain. Any MP voting in favour of this bill is the kind of scum who wants their children (and yours) to receive less than they themselves have had. Write to your MP, and inform them that you will note vote for them again if they vote in favour of this bill, because voting for the kind of creature that would endorse this makes you one of them.
Links for Tuesday July 12th 2011 through Wednesday July 13th 2011
- Computer reads manual, wins Civ – Edge Magazine
Yes is pretty much exactly what you might think. Scientists at MIT have built a computer that is capable of teaching itself to play (and win) a moderately complex computer game. I know plenty of people who can't do that.
- An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine | NeuroTribes
I don't imagine there's anyone I know reading this who doesn't think that socialised medicine is a basic human right, but just in case I do know anyone who is actually daft enough to believe that the American "system" of health care is better than a British (at least at the moment, before the current pack of jackals have finished chopping it's legs off), then I invite you to read this cheering little narrative. The rest of you should read it just because it'll make you feel good.
Bookmarks for August 17, 2010
- BBC – Dimensions – Index
BERG produce a site that helps you understand the scale and distances of things in the recent, and not so recent past. If the Apollo 11 astronauts had landed at your front door, could the distance they walked have enabled them to buy a pint of milk? How far away from your parents house would the German trenches have been, if WWI had happened where you grew up? And so on, and so forth. Nice!
- BookBook for iPad – BookBook for iPad – Twelve South
If I didn't have my Dodocase, or if, god forbid, anything should happen to it, I'd want one of these, I think.
- rejectamentalist manifesto
China Miéville has a blog. I believe this may be relevant to our interest
- Science Digestive: My application for a job as a Homeopath
In case were weren't aware NHS Tayside are offering a £68,000 a year job for a fucking homeopath, despite having laid off 500 people due to the current round of cuts. The level of angry this makes me is hard to fucking describe – it is a near perfect example of the counter to the "well, it can't hurt, and it might help some people" argument that others put forward. Anyway, setting incandescent fury aside for a moment, here is an amusing read: A qualified neuroscientist applies for the job.
- Washington, We Have a Problem | Politics | Vanity Fair
interesting article on the daily routine of the Obama presidency, and the difference between the media now, and the media of a decade ago.