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: 2012-01-27 03:46 pm (UTC)If the Mail is still free to access online, then there's one reason it surpassed the Times.
As for the "cover up", well, no; "Morgellon's Disease" has never been well supported by research literature, and certainly anyone other than the True Believers has found that the foreign matter samples were from textiles or other common environmental substances.
-- Steve is certainly not dismissing the syndrome, but thinks that "delusional parasitosis" is a better term. Now to find out why these folks' neural nets are falsely signalling the creepy-crawlies...
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Date: 2012-01-27 04:01 pm (UTC)And Morgellon's Disease is clearly real - you must be part of The Conspiracy if you're denying it! Aieee!
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Date: 2012-01-27 04:42 pm (UTC)-- Steve wishes he was part of The Conspiracy; his retirement fund could do with some top-up with Illumaniti money.
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Date: 2012-01-27 06:19 pm (UTC)As you'd imagine, I take the opposite view and would reverse the two newspapers in that statement!
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Date: 2012-01-27 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-27 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-27 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-27 08:04 pm (UTC)I care more about the SNP's position on corporation tax than I do the love-life of Justin Bieber or who was a bitch backstage at the X-Factor, but the latter two examples are going to sell more papers/magazines and so be important to people. (although I, like you, would have a different view of what's important)
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Date: 2012-01-27 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-27 08:22 pm (UTC)It's a fairly important point made in that BBC website article that we're talking about the website, not the newspaper. The website does show some content from the newspaper, but an awful lot of the stories on the website don't appear in print. The print newspaper doesn't have much in the way of celebrity gossip for example.
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Date: 2012-01-29 02:11 pm (UTC)Thinking about it, most of what I despise about The Daily Mail comes from their commentators, things like Jan Moir's piece on Stephen Gately, from their unceasing scare stories about cancer, and from looking over Julie's shoulder at the website.
As the Guardian also publishes comment pieces I find horrific, from writers like Julie Bindel, or things that I disagree with severely (most opinion pieces around economics), I can't overly-fault it on that front.
My memory of the paper itself is that it was horribly alarmist, and terribly bigoted. Pieces like this don't help with that view. But having not picked up a copy in 20 years, I have no idea what it's like outside of the bits that I see paraded as examples of its badness.
I'll take your word for it that it's not generally that bad (until I find myself in a dentists waiting room with a copy of it to analyse, of course!)
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Date: 2012-01-27 06:35 pm (UTC)"I know it's true; I read it in the Daily Mail" is sufficient rebuttal while being more entertaining than anything I could come up with off-the-cuff, so I'll just stick with that.
-- Steve is gradually becoming less amazed with the remarkable run of the Weekly World News, given how little its coverage differs from that of the Daily Mail.