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Taxing times for Hungary's porn inspectors | The Register
A Hungarian porn producer has filed his tax forms, and claimed scene dressing props as legitimate business expenses. So the tax inspectors have to watch his films to confirm they're used. Apparently 'It's a hard job'
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Solar Cycle 24 Could Be 13 Years Long - Cooler Times Ahead? « Watts Up With That?
I'm not enough of a scientist to know if this holds water at all, written from a sceptic perspective I think, but I don't discount the anti-climate change position completely, doubt is good. Anyone able to expand, confirm or debunk?
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'The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion' - When the Anti-Choice Choose
I've read many of these quotes before, but it is a fairly good collection about how anti-abortion campaigners react if it's them that needs to make the choice.
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Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD
Mostly for my reference as I've got some stuff I want to back up from my old PC and have never done it. Anyone got experience of using this or other software to burn AVIs and similar onto DVD?
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Basic UK libel law for idiots by Adam Porter
Another guide to online libel, this time from Urban 75. Seems accurate, although I'm really not sure about the linking could be defamation thing. Mentions the Staggers/Scallywag case directly though.
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Charlie's Diary: Moderation Policy
Not a bad general guide about what is and isn't acceptable on someone else's blog, and most of it applies to me as well (although the bits about huge readership numbers and similar aren't, natch). Freedom of speech doesn't apply.
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Qinetiq ships first 'Transformer' war-droid | The Register
It doesn't actually change shape, but it's got a selection opf different weapon fits, and dude, it's a robot. Um, not 100% sure I approve, but still, it's cool
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The greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters - Crave at CNET.co.uk
These are cool, a set of failed 'name' websites and why they failed. Some of the could work well now, others are just bad examples of stupid business plans.
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delicious -> livejournal reposter - May Contain Nuts
Andrew's redone some of the code for the cross poster I'm using, much better, solves the timestamp problem and a few other things. I really need to reinstall an FTP client and fix mine.
Gah, sometimes you can try to be too clever. Bottom link is to Andrew's fix of the crossposter code, which theoretically auto-selects a userpic, gets the timestamp right and removes the auto formatting. Except that having done so, it's not posted at all today. So either del.icio.us is playing up or I've messed my code. Anyone want to lay odds? Apologies for the messy appearance, this is a copy/paste from my profile there. Still, it works.
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Why I rarely buy the IndyTab anymore: The final para begins: "So the trial of lower-case lesbian vs upper-case Lesbian is going ahead. Now, a lesbian on-line magazine called The Register has put forward a solution..."
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Hari is one of those people that I either agree with strongly or disagree with vehemently. This analysis of WHY people voted BNP is better than many I've read, and accentuates the futility of the No Platform posturing.
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Nielsen is awesome, again, and proves why formatting matters: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
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Mostly agree with this one to: Active voice is best for most Web content, but using passive voice can let you front-load important keywords in headings - This enhances scannability and effectiveness.
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Started reading Alertbox before I learnt the basics of HTML, it's definitely helped in my approach, especially for blogging - I break the rules more often than I follow them, but when I really want people to read you'll notice
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Zoe's spot on here - if a newspaper copies your entries wholesale and reprints them then they need your permission and they ought to pay. Exerpts for critique are fine, but substantive content isn't
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Some good observations on blogging - there's a reason I always write in my name, gives me control: In a Google-Indexed Universe where the lines between online and offline lives are blurred, you don't have to fill in all of the blanks.
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I grew up on Marvel comics, from the stuff I bought in the store at Butlins aged 5 through to the Transformers when I was 10 to the X Men when I fell for Psylocke. But comics take loads of money. They're doing The Avengers. Properly. Woo Hoo!
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We saw this before Iron Man and, well, we loved it. I await the actual release as Smith really can act if made to, and he can definitely do comedy. I even laughed at the bit with the whale. Um, sorry bout that.
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Site campaigning on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, going through parliament, because it has widespread implications for ordinary Britons. Next due on May 12th, more to follow when I've time, and a big reason to dislike Mad Nad
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What it's like being part of a gay couple, even in supposedly liberal, civilised areas, still. From Debi, comes with a challenge I doubt I could manage at all: Spend an entire week pretending that you're not a couple.
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matgb_twitter is there if you're mad enough.Well, I tried setting up the deli.icio.us cross poster (again), but it keeps crashing on me, so here's my linkspam of the last day or so redone with stripped html—sorry about some of the weirdness.
New Statesman - Richard Reeves
Wrote the bio of JS Mill I'm currently reading, which means I like him already. Very interesting set of columns, well worth looking over, even if they are in Staggers.
Edible Dirt,—Easter Sunday, Jesus wakes up
Not original, probably offensive to those that care, rather funny
10 Unfortunate Facts of Life | f*cking c*nts
This amused, it's about time I cleared it from my linklog and actually posted it somewhere
theweaselking: Abortion discussion
Key quote from comments: "It's a hard enough choice without having to make it in an alley. I'll always be pro choice, period."
Why I am an abortion doctor
Read this: 'I can take a woman, in the biggest trouble she has ever experienced in her life, and by performing a five-minute operation, in comfort and dignity, I can give her back her life' Safe, legal, rare, why is there still a controversy?
How to Pack Up & Leave LiveJournal (A Tutorial) (://URLFAN)
Not a bad little how-to. Not how I'd do it specifically, I've already backed up everything including comments to a Wordpress install, but still not bad.
drjon: The LJ Strike (which is today)
Containts a nice little history of previous fusses on the site, with a balanced overview and points out that, well, we've won already
Pharyngula: EXPELLED!
Creationists premiere dodgy movie near home of famous science blogger, specifically ban him from viewing, but not his family or his guest. This is a really dumb move...
It's Just a Game... - Review: The Bible
Funny: "Summary: A confused film, half effects laden, no-brain blockbuster, half cinema-verite talking-heads, lacking a conclusion or climax to justify the budget. Poor plotting and characterisation lead the audience to sympathise with the villains rather
FT.com | The Undercover Economist | Dear Economist: How can I create an incentive scheme to keep our house clean?
Sounds familiar: "My fiancee is moving in with me. We’ve lived together before, and we hate housework. Before, we didn’t do work in retaliation for housework not done by the other." Good to know that even economics doesn't have all the answers
So, before I turn in, the USians have an important anniversary of a seminal court case. If you haven't heard of Roe vs Wade, seriously, what colour is the sky where you're from?
I don't like the idea that abortion happens. I wish it didn't. I wish that access to contraception wasn't ever difficult, that it was reliable, that education and informed choices were the norm, that some people didn't ever feel so desparate that they need or want to remove a living being from them. But there is no way in hell I'll ever support any plan to remove the right of a pregnant woman to choose for herself, and David Steel was 100% right to introduce and push through the Abortion Act 1967[1], and the fact that we're in a free society that accepts this right pretty much without question, weird crime-rate-reduction correlations aside, is a Good Thing. But I'm not writing a long post about this today. I'm posting to link to one better.
InnerBrat - Part of the reason I'm pro-choice is the fear that I don't have one myself.
Read. That is all.
[1] Reasons why feminists should be Liberals. First MP to propose equal voting rights? Liberal. MP to introduce the right to abortion? Liberal.
I don't like the idea that abortion happens. I wish it didn't. I wish that access to contraception wasn't ever difficult, that it was reliable, that education and informed choices were the norm, that some people didn't ever feel so desparate that they need or want to remove a living being from them. But there is no way in hell I'll ever support any plan to remove the right of a pregnant woman to choose for herself, and David Steel was 100% right to introduce and push through the Abortion Act 1967[1], and the fact that we're in a free society that accepts this right pretty much without question, weird crime-rate-reduction correlations aside, is a Good Thing. But I'm not writing a long post about this today. I'm posting to link to one better.
InnerBrat - Part of the reason I'm pro-choice is the fear that I don't have one myself.
Read. That is all.
[1] Reasons why feminists should be Liberals. First MP to propose equal voting rights? Liberal. MP to introduce the right to abortion? Liberal.
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