October 2010
“Lack of civility has little to do with our problems; the underlying architecture...”
– After the Future (via azspot)
BBC News - Protesters blockade Vodafone shops in... →
Campaigners claiming Vodafone has been let off an unpaid tax bill of £6bn have blockaded several shops.
Campaigner Ed Brompton said: “This money - £6bn - could be spent on schools, housing and hospitals.”
But a Vodafone spokesman denied the tax bill reports, adding: “We pay our taxes in the UK and all of the other countries in which we operate.”
A spokesman for HM...
My nose knows
littleorphanammo:
I think I’ve talked about it before but my sense of smell is super, ultra sensitive. Has been since I was really young. I can smell normal things, like perfumes and flowers but also different kinds and voltages of electricity and different types of heat. I can smell these things, sometimes, from hundreds of feet away. It’s what made me really good in the wine industry,...
“How do we strengthen the design profession and ensure that great work will...”
– The Design Tantrum /via Kris (via jarredbishop)
“Our study shows that the 188 reported drone strikes in northwest Pakistan,...”
– The Year of the Drone | NewAmerica.net
So that’s all right then.
(via Instapaper)
Fake, post-Web x.0, band name
The Existing Users
feastingonroadkill:
The Fall: ‘Bingo Masters...
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I'd rather people not vote than do so with zero...
littleorphanammo:
Meaning, if you really don’t know about the issues, or the candidates, their positions on various things like taxes, abortion, health care, immigration, gay marriage, as well as those issues specific to your locale, then I really would prefer not vote.
*shockedpearlclutching.gif*
Seriously. And the reality is that involvement takes a lot of effort, and a lot of time, and a...
How should one react to the fact that finance...
“Women have a lot more open mucus membranes and they are getting sicker than men....”
– BP dispersants ‘causing sickness’ - Features - Al Jazeera English (via radicallyhottoff)
Why do Americans have to go to a news organization based in Qatar for honest news about America?
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(via cuntymint)
Retailers we’re refusing to shop with in November:... →
The day before George Osborne delivered his comprehensive spending review, 35 business leaders wrote to the Telegraph to praise the cuts to public spending that the review proposed.
We don’t want to shop with businesses that appeared on that list. Their confidence in the restorative powers of the spending review was not genuine. Most are laying staff off and are pessimistic about the recovery....
lindaboucher asked: you are mean
;)
(they are meant to be sparkly pasties... but now I am thinking I need to re-think that idea)
;)
(they are meant to be sparkly pasties... but now I am thinking I need to re-think that idea)
Can we just get this out of the way before I start...
minou:
I am totally now seeing the appeal of this “tenure” thing that y’all are all on about. Because, see, since a number of my students really JUST DIDN’T LIKE the reading I assigned for this week, i.e. they didn’t enjoy it and it was hard and it failed to entertain them and it was by Marsden Hartley who, holla, was a HOMOSEXUAL and some of them were clearly a bit uncomfortable with this fact...
“Banks have seized thousands of homes. What can we do?
First, reverse each and...”
– Jimmy McMillan
NHS white paper proposals backed by only one in... →
hilker:
“Only one in four of Britain’s doctors thinks the government’s controversial NHS shake-up will improve patient care, according to the biggest survey of medical opinion since ministers unveiled their radical reforms.
Andrew Lansley’s belief that the most far-reaching changes to the service in its 62-year history will lead to higher standards is shared by only 23% of doctors.
Far more,...
“Last week, 35 deluded business leaders wrote to the Telegraph to praise George...”
– Fair trade starts at home – Hangbitch
That list in full:
Next
ASDA
Microsoft UK
Mothercare
Carphone Warehouse Group, TalkTalk Telecom Group
Alliance Boots
Marks & Spencer
Ocado
Dunelm Group
L.K. Bennett
Kingfisher
SSL International, moneysupermarket.com, Britvic
Towergate
Dhillon...
“It’s only a matter of time before the word “Clegg” enters the...”
– Charlie Brooker
Iran Must Not Meddle in Afghanistan, U.S. Says... →
LOL
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As the Wikileaks Iraq war logs prompt another...
It’s worth remembering that the ineffable Billmon* was blogging the fuck out of the self-same invaders and enablers at the time, and that a considerate soul has captured his archive for download.
*Back in the mid-oughties, Billmon’s Whisky Bar blog was essential reading. As far as I can see, his current efforts at the dreadful Daily Kos are, as you people say, not so much.
“Britain’s deficits did not spawn bond market panics. Interest rates remained...”
– Britain’s Austerity Overdose - NYTimes.com
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onefootinthegrave asked: Do you want to know how I successfully quit tobacco? I started smoking more reefer. I don't know how it worked, but it did.
All this simple/minimal fetishism is making me... →
Oo, look at me! I’ve got no wires on my desk! I only own a toothbrush! There are no words or pictures on my website! I draft emails to my mom in TextEdit!
Where did this fetish spring from?
“The idea that ministers are guided by the interests of the public at large,...”
– New Statesman - We are not all in this together (via Instapaper)
