Ministry of Propaganda - 05/Apr/2004: "A bunch of links early in the week"
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A bunch of links early in the week
Time to clean out some of my bookmarks again and add a few other links I found today:
- Adolf Hitler didn't exist. But Robin Hood did. As did Conan the Barbarian. Whereas William Wallace (a.k.a Braveheart) didn't. At least that's what quite a few people think. Scary.
- Compulsory ID cards in the UK, apparently to fight terrorism. Germany has had them for ages (although you can't renew them when you live abroad, but that's a different story), doesn't seem to have helped much there. As far as I know several of the 9/11 terrorists lived in Germany for a while. And the RAF killed quite a few people in the 1970s. Spain also has them, as far as I know. Doesn't seem to have made such a big difference either.
- The smoking ban in public places in Ireland seems to work. Also an interesting number, apparently 73% of the participants of a recent poll in the UK would support a ban.
- A few good news for Londoners...
- Advertisers will try new web advertising methods. The good news is that several of them (in particular the first one, as it requires ActiveX) won't run on Mozilla.
- How donating used clothes to a charity can have unintended effects: T-Shirt Travels, or how donations can actually destroy a local industry.
- After reading a German translation in Die Zeit "Feind im Visier" I tried to find the English original, unfortunately I wasn't successful. Instead I found a similar essay from a few years ago. Similar thoughts, also linking to the second bullet of this list in a way.
Enough? Well, that's all you get for today. May be more tomorrow. Or Wednesday.
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Entry trivia
- When writing this entry the weather was: Whatever you want, but currently it seems to be dry. Torrential rain earlier. Some sunshine as well.
- When writing this entry I was listening to: BBC Radio 1 (yes, I can hear again. My blocked ears have cleared)
- I'm currently reading/have just finished reading this book/publication: Christopher Brookmyre - Be my enemy
- I recently visited this website/-page: Transblawg
- The last drink I had was/is: Milk
Dodgy picture of the moment:
No particular reason. Just picked the picture from the folder.
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