They just don't get it, do they? #2,549

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The piece is worth a read but it was the comment exchange (below) which made me smile.

“Deep Linking” Under Fire by Newspaper Danish Publishers
Blogging journalists in Denmark are up in arms over a renewed effort by Danish newspaper publishers to stop websites like Google News from linking to individual articles rather than a newspaper's homepage.  Regardless of what is considered normal practice around the world, the Danish Association of Newspaper Publishers insist they only want homepage links, so they can better control the user experience. (They even want email links to send readers to the homepage! - MrP)


Via Donald Strachan


Carry-On - Carry-Out

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Social workers sacked over 'sick' image of paedophile Gary Glitter carrying a child in a shopping bag
An investigation was launched after an employee alerted bosses to the appalling image, which shows the convicted paedophile holding a plastic bag with a superimposed child's head popping out of the top. Staff had circulated the email on the office network, where it spread within hours.
Of course, the image was not so appalling that it prevented The Mail from publishing a 470 x 670 px photo with a little black strap across the child's eyes.

What a shower of shits and hypocrites.


Band of Brothers

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John Hallmann: Why America Feels Like it's Been Ruled by a Foreign Occupier
The wave of emotion that has erupted with the election of Barack Obama reminds me of the Allied victory in France in WWII. After a long foreign occupation in which foreign German interests occupied the agenda of France, French governance would once again be representing the concerns of it's populace.

That hope seems to pervade America after it's long neocons occupation. Here are a few of the parallels that I see...

"Where the skeletons are buried…"

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Nick Turse, A Truth-teller for Our Times
"We killed her… that will be with me the rest of my life"
Lawrence Wilkerson's Lessons of War and Truth

Nations in flux are nations in need. A new president will soon take office, facing hard choices not only about two long-running wars and an ever-deepening economic crisis, but about a government that has long been morally adrift. Torture-as-policy, kidnappings, ghost prisons, domestic surveillance, creeping militarism, illegal war-making, and official lies have been the order of the day. Moments like this call for truth-tellers. For Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. For witnesses willing to come forward. For brave souls ready to expose hidden and forbidden realities to the light of day.

Mind The Gap!

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Tell me this is a fucking joke, please.  

If it's not then I'm going to take some close up photos of my gnashers and post them here with a PayPal button. If she gets £800 I should be well on course for several thousand quid!

No light at the end of the tunnel  for Trixy. "Most Shaggable Blogger 2008"
I really haven't been so scared and desolate in a long time. I can't afford £800 for specialist root canal treatment to remove an infection which is eating away at my jawbone. Because it's the second time around it only has a 60-70% chance of success so there's another huge risk that should that not work I'll have to fork our thousands of pounds to have a replacement tooth fitted, should I choose not to have a large gap in my mouth like some extra in Eastenders.

I've written to the Health Secretary and copied in the Prime Minister and my MP (who is a good bloke who actually cares about his constituents which is probably why the Tory party were allegedly trying to replace him) because they really should know what a fucking mess they've made of this country and our health services. They have provided a breeding ground for lazy, stupid gangs of knuckle scrapping fools who are, day by day, proving Darwin wrong.
Scared and desolate at the thought of losing a tooth. Baby, you ain't lived yet, obviously. Jeez!

(And just for the record, when exactly was the last time you were "scared and desolate". Did you ladder your tights or something?)

NB: The NHS charge for root canal treatment is a maximum of £44.60  Mummy and Daddy DID register you with an NHS dentist, didn't they? An infected jawbone is classed as a dental emergency and would be treated at any NHS dental hospital. Full dental implantation of a single tooth is around £1,200 with a private dentist. Root canal work is available privately from around £180. Where does the £800/£Thousands comes from?

Via DK who is chief collection-box rattler.

Tracy and Damien: Buy it, study it and learn how to paint!

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Emin bids to save £50m paintings (with OUR money, of course)
Tracey Emin will today deliver an artists' petition to Downing Street in a bid to save two paintings by the Renaissance master Titian for the nation.

The National Galleries of Scotland and London have until the end of December to raise £50 million to keep Diana And Actaeon in the UK, with the option of buying the second painting, Diana And Callisto, for a similar price in three years.
Our multi-millionaire Trace and her dollar-billionaire chum Damien could finally do something of lasting worth to the cause of art in Britain and buy these two Titians with some of the money they've received for their overpriced tat from gormless art speculators the world over. Instead they and their artist pals want the money to come from the rest of us. Lorry drivers, nurses, cleaners and anyone else who pays tax or VAT or fuel duty or duty on fags and booze. Grrrr!