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Saturday, 29 January 2011

Link Tank 29/01

G'wan, you know you want to.

The death of personal responsibility: Helmet required

Dutch government to be lobbied to legalise all recreational drugs

The extreme bravery of police officers who sleep with environmentalists

Scotland bans dirty pics, but won't tell which ones

E-cigs to be banned in New York because they enable people "to continue their nicotine addictions when they are someplace where they can't smoke"

While we're on the subject, New York also plans banning iPods for pedestrians - no, really

Bottoms Up! Australia invents the fastest beer dispenser ever

Something to ponder at the deli counter - a kilogram isn't what it once was

Men pay more attention, but don't remember much news read by 'sexy' female newsreaders

Lady Gaga enters the perfume market with an, ahem, interesting new scent

Time to install a 'Sex Tax'

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Posted by Dick Puddlecote at 10:55
Labels: Link Tank

2 comments:

Manu said...

Nice set of links DP. Particularly liked the link to another of those scientific studies that make we wish I'd gone into a different field of research back in the day... ;-)

29 January 2011 17:34
Anonymous said...

Dick
You seem to get less comments on sets of links like this. Don't be discouraged. I read most of them and find them interesting and/or funny in a perverse way.

I suspect others do as well.

Alan Bates

31 January 2011 23:28

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