Top Stories and Blog Review Wednesday 25th March

by Andrew Hickey
10:06 am - March 25th 2009

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CHINA WANTS ‘SUPER CURRENCY’

Nationwide
Now ‘Big Brother’ database targets Facebook
Blears continues standoff with Muslim body over anti-terror
US Taser death prompts call for UK rethink
Pupils get morning-after pill by text service

International
Dozens hurt after march by Israel extremists
US weighs Sharif as possible partner in Pakistan
Obama cites complexities of Mideast peace effort
The end of the Global War on Terror

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Andrew Hickey

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Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging about women in technology. There were many, many excellent posts made, all of which can be found here, but some that jumped out were Debi‘s post on Adria Richards and two posts about women on the borderline between music and technology who are heroes of mine – Bird of Paradox on Wendy Carlos the transwoman whose Switched On Bach is a masterpiece of baroque Moog, and Rain Rainycat on Delia Derbyshire, the creator of the original Doctor Who theme.

Costigan Quist writes about the diabetes ‘epidemic’ and what is actually happening.

Geoffrey Payne at Lib Dem Voice on ‘economic liberals’.

Fred Clark on ‘just war’ doctrine and the recent reversal of the ban on photographing coffins of US servicepeople.

Leonard Pierce on why the destruction of the US (and world) economy is not ‘a crime too big to punish’.

James Graham asks why he doesn’t know the names of more women in technology.

The Honourable Lady Mark writes about the Tories figuring out only twenty years after everyone else that there are downsides to the ‘right to buy’.

And finally The Prestigious Internet advises on the US tax-deductibility of kidnapped children, or browse through previous Netcasts

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10:14 am, March 25, 2009

1. James Graham

The Honourable Lady Mark writes about the Tories figuring out only twenty years after everyone else that there are downsides to the ‘right to buy’.

The problem is, as Mark sort of acknowledges, the other parties DIDN’T figured out the downsides 20 years ago. There’s been some tinkering, but just that.

11:03 am, March 25, 2009

2. Jennie Rigg

Pedant