Interesting Links for 1-8-2011

[matgb]

Collected links from around the web

• Thatcher withdraws from public life-street party now?
  The joke of paying for Thatcher's funeral by charging for the dancefloor over her grave was always just a little off. But maybe those that want to celebrate her passing should do so now, when she's closed her offices and withdrawn from public life?
  (tags: Margaret-Thatcher morbid-celebration)
• 150 years of British weather forecasts-Beagle Cpt founded Met Office? Who knew?
  The Met Office was founded by the Captain of Darwin's Voyage? I had no idea. Nice little silly season story showing how Einstein was wrong.
  (tags: weather met-office accuracy factcheck)
• John Timpson: I have a dream of a simplified tax regime - He's recreated a CBI, good good
  Three questions put to a fairly succesful nationally known businessman. Three sensible answers. Looks like a decent employer, especially in his approach to Facebook &c on work time.
  (tags: citizen's-basic-income john-timpson facebook work)
• ‪Bill Bailey does Enter Sandman-brilliant
  How cool is this?
  (tags: Bill-Bailey video cool music)
• Liz Jones: Idiot or troll? No doubt that Dacre's trolling, but is she, or just a stooge
  Reynolds thinks Jones is a high order troll being so stupid deliberately. I think she's just an overpaid moron, but that the editor of the Fail is a troll. You?
  (tags: liz-jones paul-dacre entitlement)
• Facebook Deletion Day is here! | Jennie Rigg~I am so looking forward to doing this at some point
  Many of my Devon based family use Facebook, it's useful to keep in touch with them there. That's it, beyond that I rarely go to the place except to reply to people. Not as keen on G+ as Jennie, but it's already better than FB
  (tags: Facebook social+networks)
• Easter Island: ecological success destroyed by western slavers?
  I'd heard, and believed, the ecocide theory that the inhabitants had made it unsustainable themselves and were dying out before discovery. Looks like that's completely untrue, the trees dies out early, but a sustainable culture survived for centuries on very limited resources in an impressive manner
  (tags: Easter-Island Rapa-Nui environmentalism archaeology)
• something positive: @miss_s_b's approach to tidying
  I can easily picture Jennie doing this.
  (tags: tidying Jennie funny webcomics)
• A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
  Interesting reading, didn't know some of the early stuff about the East India. Long article, 7000 words, not had time to finish properly yet but want to go back to it, worth a read.
  (tags: economics history corporations)
• Flying saucer found on Gulf of Bothnia seabed?
  PRobably some Soviet kit lost at some point, but what if?
  (tags: UFOs Sweden discovery)

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Comments

[karohemd]

Apparently Bill Bailey also did Gary Numan's "Cars" on the bulb horn rack at Sonisphere. Did you see him on Rob Brydon on Friday? If not, find it on iplayer.

[matgb]

Not a huge fan of Bryden, but will look it up, danke.

[karohemd]

That's the beauty of iplayer, you can skip to the good bits. :)

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

Liz Jones just bewilders me. I mean, I can be pretty self-obsessed and entitled but I can't see how that level of solipsism can survive any actual contact with the outside world. Mind you, it looks as if we may have been spared Liz Jones's impressions of the famine, for which I am heartily grateful.

[matgb]

Heh... LizJonesSomalia

It's very well done.

[davegodfrey]

I was always under the impression that building Thatcher's grave was going to be an architectural nightmare, what with half the people who visited wanting to dance, and the other half needing the loo.