Interesting Links for 3-8-2011

[matgb]

Collected links from around the web

• Vince Cable scraps plans to block websites, widespread changes to our copyright law-Go Vince
  A strong step in the right direction, and abandoning the pointless, good good.
  (tags: Vince-Cable DEAct Digital-economy-act copyright)
• Ultimate Spider-Man rebooted with half-black, half-Hispanic lead
  Could be interesting, always liked the Ultimate line when I was buying comics, didn't know they'd killed Peter Parker. Jennie's more interested in the artist, when DC are trying to claw back their alienated female fans, Marvel are just appointed women creators as if it's normal. Good good.
  (tags: Spiderman marvel)
• Hyperion - a mostly hollow weird shaped Saturnian moon. Colony ship?
  OK, OK, I'm being daft, but David's explanation of the whole thing is pretty cool.
  (tags: science astronomy)
• Tonight on @bbcradio4: Keynes v Hayek: Two economic giants go head to head
  This should be interesting, the two great Liberal economists of the 30s being discussed heavily-both have influenced entire schools of economic thought.
  (tags: economics JM-Keynes Hayek)
• Leadership: Vivek Kundra, Uncle Sam's first CIO - Jul. 13, 2011
  Bit of a puff piece, but has he actually made good progress solving a problem endemic in govt IT projects and spending?
  (tags: vivek-kundra chief-information-officer procurement government+spending)
• Catholic Church appointed child protection chief convicted of having 4,000 child porn pictures- FFS
  Yeah, that's good, they guy the Diocese of Plymouth put in charge of pretcing children from abusers in their congregations has a massive child porn collection. Not getting any better on the PR front is it?
  (tags: catholicism child-abuse)
• Grayling defends NCH, and does it well-education should be funded and free but...
  A lot of the fuss about the New College for the Hunaities has been, frankly, hyperbolic. Grayling does a good job here of defending his position and what he's trying to acheive, while attacking historic underfunding. I think I agree with him.
  (tags: New-College-London AC-Grayling universities education)
• Barclays and HSBC: not so global (thank goodness)-Interesting maps to make the point
  HSBS claims to be "the world's local bank". Not sure that's really accurate if this is correct, overwhelmingly a British operation, same for Barclays. Worth noting neither got in trouble during the credit crunch either.
  (tags: maps HSBC Barclays banking finance)
• Anniverrsary: 2nd August 1943 – The Treblinka Revolt. Impressive, if depressing, stuff
  I knew nothing about this, whatsoever. Impressive stuff.
  (tags: WWII Treblinka aniversary)

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Comments

[birguslatro]

The was an uprising at Auschwitz too, in which one of the crematoria were destroyed. See...

http://www.annaheilman.net/index.html

[frith]

I've been pissed at Marvel comics ever since they made a dog's breakfast of the 2099 series. I was following the Spiderman 2099 and the Doom 2099 stories. First they started abandoning story lines in mid-stream. Then they melted the ice caps and sent everyone to Antarctica. And then as far as I can tell, that was it for the future, game over.

[andrewducker]

I've been to Treblinka, when I was over in the Czech Republic tracking down dead bits of family. It was less depressing than Auschwitz-Birkenau, and fascinating, but I wouldn't recommend it for a fun day out.