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Links for March 31st

March 31, 2010March 31, 2010 The Interweb abuse, america, atheism, bbc, catholicchurch, censorship, christianity, conservatives, copyright, digitaleconomybill, doctorow, filesharing, health, hitchens, iannucci, internet, libelreform, measles, mmr, mpembaeffect, murdoch, politics, pope, ratzinger, religion, republicans, Science, sky, vaccination, vaccines, water

Measles Outbreak Triggered by Unvaccinated Child What began as a family trip to Switzerland in 2008 ended up as a public health nightmare in California. The family's 7-year-old boy, who was intentionally unvaccinated against measles,

Links for March 12th

March 12, 2010March 12, 2010 The Interweb atheism, bpi, cal, civilrights, consumerism, copyright, cyprus, digitaleconomybill, fitna, food, freedomofspeech, gardening, hacks, health, homeopathy, howto, humanrights, internet, libdems, medicine, nutrition, onions, religion, technology, water

Cyprus conflict closes leaders' eyes to water shortage Water has been rapidly disappearing in Cyprus since the 1970s, but conflict between Turkish and Greek communities means fixing the problem is not high on the political

Links for January 13th

January 14, 2010January 14, 2010 The Interweb antivaccinationists, astronomy, bono, cock, copyright, design, digitaleconomybill, filesharing, galileo, hadopi, health, internet, isp, jupiter, mahler, mandelson, music, nasa, p2p, piracy, ratbags, Science, snow, uk, vaccines

France's anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo Boing Boing Hapodi, the French agency that's in charge of the country's new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with is accused of three acts

Links for December 14th

December 14, 2009December 14, 2009 The Interweb aol, banking, bbc, climate, copenhagen, copyright, economics, environment, freespeech, globalwarming, google, history, internet, ipcc, law, libel, libelreform, music, musicindustry, technology, timewarner

Cleaners 'worth more to society' than bankers - study Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests. The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners

Links for December 4th

December 4, 2009December 4, 2009 The Interweb antivaccinationism, atheism, autism, bbc, chopra, christianity, churchill, copyright, creationism, cults, deepakchopra, digitalbritain, digitaleconomybill, dot.commons, ebay, economy, facebook, filesharing, google, health, healthcare, internet, media, mmr, music, newage, piracy, politics, religion, scientology, skepticism, spirituality, statistics, twitter, vaccinations

Don't strike up the band Visit a pub and there’s every chance you’ll hear background Muzak, or high-volume Sky Sports coverage of Premiership football. But what are the chances of hearing live music? At least

Links for November 27th

November 27, 2009November 27, 2009 The Interweb 3strikes, activism, andycoulson, australia, bacteria, bbc, boots, censorship, children, chumby, cults, database, democracy, digitaleconomybill, google, guardian, health, history, homeopathy, humanrights, hygiene, internet, iplayer, journalism, media, microsoft, newscorp, newsoftheworld, opensource, parenting, police, politics, privacy, protest, pseudoscience, religion, Science, scientology, surveillance, technology, uk, wii, xenophon, y2k

Boots' cynical stance on homeopathy There's something of a backlash taking place online against Boots today, after their professional standards director Paul Bennett admitted before a parliamentary committee yesterday that the chain sell homeopathic remedies

Links for November 4th

November 4, 2009November 4, 2009 The Interweb 3strikes, antivax, atheism, autism, badscience, cancer, copyright, education, europe, filesharing, health, hpv, internet, journalism, kafka, magnotherapy, media, medicine, music, p2p, piracy, politics, pseudoscience, psychology, reading, religion, Science, technology, therapy, vaccines

Childhood vaccines, autism and the dangers of group think Wallace has run smack into an abiding, perhaps growing, phenomenon of the Internet Age: Citizens armed with information are sure they know better. Readers who brush

Links for September 8th

September 8, 2009September 8, 2009 The Interweb apple, Books, bpi, copyright, cory-doctorow, digitalbritain, doctorow, downloads, ebooks, filesharing, fourthplinth, government, history, hitler, internet, london, mac, marillion, music, osx, publishing, snowleopard, software, statistics, writing, wwii

Cory Doctorow: Special Pleading Six years ago, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom couldn't be counted as a real success for open publishing because I was too obscure to feel the cost of the

Links for July 6th

July 6, 2009July 6, 2009 The Interweb abuse, agnosticism, alzheimers, anthropology, apple, atheism, beauty, belief, bible, blind, blindness, caffeine, catholicchurch, cbs, change, christianity, church, codexsinaiticus, coffee, computing, culture, disability, education, gchq, google, government, health, history, internet, iphone, itunes, journalism, last.fm, love, marriage, memory, nineinchnails, police, prejudice, privacy, religion, riaa, Science, searchengine, spying, surveillance, techcrunch, technology, trentreznor

Coffee 'may reverse Alzheimer's' Drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease, US scientists say. The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production

Links for April 27th

May 1, 2009May 1, 2009 The Interweb acgrayling, atheism, Books, copyright, corydoctorow, data, design, ebooks, economics, government, information, inspiration, internet, law, media, music, networking, p2p, philosophy, photography, photos, piracy, privacy, religion, Science, security, surveillance, technology, terrorism, tutorials, writing

Giving It Away The thing about an e-book is that it's a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) device,

Links for April 16th

April 18, 2009April 18, 2009 The Interweb advertising, brand, capybara, childhood, consumerrights, copyright, data, easter, ethics, government, health, internet, islam, journalism, law, marriage, media, music, nhs, panorama, paulcarr, phorm, poetry, politics, privacy, religion, ross, saudiarabia, sunniislam, venezuela

UK 'has the worst copyright laws' UK copyright laws "needlessly criminalise" music fans and need to be updated, a consumer watchdog says. UK laws that make it a copyright violation to copy a CD that

Links for April 10th

April 10, 2009April 10, 2009 The Interweb archives, atheism, blogging, Books, business, church, civilliberties, creativity, culture, drm, internet, journalism, lapdancing, libraries, library, media, news, newspapers, nun, philosophy, phorm, privacy, religion, research, Science

To Newspaper Moguls: You Blew It The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they're preaching up at their own choir loft with angry, self-righteous fire and brimstone about their

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