links for 2009-06-02

From the comments: "It is your shame not ours. Even now, in your throws [sic] of guilt about what you have done to this poor woman, you put a link next to this insincere rubbish inviting us to 'see Susan Boyles Breakdown - in Pics' - talk about two faced claptrap".

"None of the MPs named above made claims that were unlawful. But the words 'moral authority' certainly spring to mind when set against the punishments that benefit claimants get when they make 'mistakes' in their benefit claims."

"This flagged up for me a problem with the way the backlogs were generated. Stakeholders contributed ideas for features they wanted to see but tended to assume they would automatically get all the functionality they already have. Even with this process, I almost missed out search from the list, as it is part of the main website navigation and I was ignoring the standard page 'furniture'."

"A major police investigation was launched after a man's body was discovered by a family friend - who then went to the pub without raising the alarm, an inquest heard".

"We found that men comprise 45% of Twitter users, while women represent 55%". Without in any way wanting to denigrate this research without the facts, this article doesn't explain how they eliminated JennyHotCam1989 and her friends from their gender breakdown of users.

Andrew Bowden on the PaleoFuture of the "SuperCeefax" that never was

Chris Thorpe has been in the States hooking The Guardian's Open Platform API up with Google's new Wave API to produce a robot that shouts out "Cockweasel!" or something ;-)