Underpaid MPs, Libel online, motivated bikers and some aliens

[matgb]

• 10 pt test for bloggers on defamation | Liberal Conspiracy
  A few assists and pointers on writing about real people online and how to avoid being sued for libel. My legal consultant talls me it's fairly accurate...
  (tags: blogging writing law libel)
• Motivational Posters for those who love bikes
  Not a bad little selection - reposted for those bikers not already reading Jennie (you should be, damnit)
  (tags: humour bikes posters)
• Why the Eurovision bloc voting theory is bogus « doctorvee
  Duncan does his whole 'look, the most popular song won' analysis (again) with good reasoning (again). Pretty sure he's right as well, yes, there are blocks, but El Tel's predictions came next to bottom.
  (tags: Europe politics eurovision)
• MPs' falling pay - Stumbling and Mumbling
  Pay peanuts, get monkeys. That's why most British MPs are useless apparatchiks (well, that and the voting system). While they get way above median, they get way below what the most talented 0.001% of us should earn.
  (tags: MPs parliament)
• davegodfrey: Unimaginative aliens.
  Paleontologist SF geek isn't happy with CGI SF aliens - even Dr Who and Trek did weird better, let alone nature.
  (tags: science scifi aliens)
• Al Qaeda Training Manual - US Air Force
  Um, yeah. Having a copy of the contents of this can get you thrown into jail. Well, if you've got brown skin or you attend a mosque. But the US air force is free to host it on a public website, right? GAH!
  (tags: terrorism USAF Al-Qaeda)

Comments

[caseytalk.livejournal.com]

What had me so confused was that some one had been arrested for downloading it and I hadn't heard about it --it's the sort of thing I hear about. Now that I see the accounts, I realize that it happened in the UK, which is why I didn't know about it. When SB posted it earlier and when you posted it above, all the references to the US and none to the UK made me jump to the conclusion that the US had done it. I'm not saying that changes the seriousness of the mistake at all. It just clarifies my confusion. Thanks!

[matgb]

No worries—we are UKians and thus sometimes forget to add little details, in this case because the character limit on my auto poster is short so I edit and edit to get the pertinent stuff in (I might flag this to one of our MPs for follow up later, it's exactly the sort of abuse we were predicting when the legislation came in).