Interesting Links for 27-01-2012
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andrewducker- Depression makes it more likely you'll do overtime
- Cars Kill Cities
- Android and iPhone neck and neck in the US smartphone market
- Apple still dominates the tablet market, but Android narrows the gap
- Pressure is being applied to raise the tax threshold for low earners further and faster
- Do the weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail actually exist?
- This is how I feel about people on minimum wage paying tax
- Why McDonald's second biggest market is...France
- Neil Gaiman on Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton
- Tetris Furniture
- Douglas Adam's letter to the studio exec responsible for getting Hitchiker's to the screen.
- US government covering up an epidemic.
- I laughed a lot at this video of programming language strangeness. If you're a geek you might do too.
- Mail Online overtakes NY Times as top online newspaper. Now that's terrifying.
- Graphene can now distill alcohol. Is there anything it can't do?
Of course, I'm still waiting for anything graphene related to make it into the shops.
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Date: 2012-01-28 07:28 pm (UTC)But also? Despite my dislike of the editorial content, it is probably the best designed, most accessible and most likely to get me reading elsewhere newspaper site I can recall ever going to. Whoever they hired to design that deserves a huge amount of credit.
And yeah, working on the minimum wage thing. And if it comes through that'll be two party policies directly inspired by a former UKIP press officer.