One for bourdieu_boy

You prob­ably already know about this one… A Chinese pro­fessor has sued a blog host for per­sonal attacks against him.  Inter­est­ing ques­tions about free­dom of speech and cul­tural clashes. A ques­tion often dis­cussed in cyber­cul­ture courses...

Equal *work* for equal pay

[ganked ver­batim from zarabee] This is fuck­ing awe­some: a Cum­brian equal pay claim based on an EU dir­ect­ive of equal value, which “allows dif­fer­ent jobs to be com­pared for skill, com­plex­ity and respons­ib­il­ity; it focuses on the work, not...

RU486

Every­one else has already said it, I guess, but I would­n’t be me if I didn’t com­ment. I’m very glad this bill has passed, even if it ‘wasn’t about abor­tion’ but rather about get­ting access to a method that will make abor­tion easier for women...

Busted

Well, that’s better. Bush’s man in NASA just got sacked due to a false CV. He didn’t get far or do too much damage and the press office has been told off for trying to alter sci­entific find­ings rather than just arrange media access to them. Maybe there is hope...

Now, this is fascinating…

Lifted from insom­nius, because I’ve been very lazy and not work­ing on Wikipedia/Wikinews recently, so I was unaware of this: I’m sure you’ll see this splattered all over your inter­net, but I think it’s hil­ari­ous that the block of IP addresses used...