Archive for June 15th, 2007
The YouTube Party
YouTube tells us that this statement by Margrete Vestager was published 17 hours ago – i.e. at midnight on Thursday.
(Sorry, but the design goes completely haywire, when I try to embed the video).
links for 2007-06-15
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Daily Telegraph: Statistics prove Hilton is getting a raw deal
Paris Hilton is being punished for her celebrity status with a much stiffer sentence than the vast majority of inmates convicted of similar offences, according to an extensive survey of recent jail records.
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Slate Magazine – More Time With My Family
Many tender the family alibi because they’re ashamed of having been fired, or embarrassed to admit that they’ve conceded defeat to the god of success
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Berlingske: Sådan fyrer chefen
Folk reagerer vidt forskelligt, når de bliver fyret, men i de fleste tilfælde vil man ende op med spørgsmålet: Hvorfor mig?
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Daily Telegraph: Teenage sex crisis ‘due to drink and drugs’
The findings follow a Unicef investigation that put Britain last in a table of 21 countries for children’s well-being and found that more British children had sex by the age of 15 than in any other country.
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TimesOnline: Fancy a drink? Go to Denmark
Why is Britain the alleged binge-drinking capital of the world? It might have something to do with the way that our mock-puritan authorities define safe drinking more abstemiously than the rest.
Business Opportunity
I knew it: I’ve always been in the wrong line of business!
Foreign Policy: Bill Clinton gets 450.000 US$ for one speech.
Even if the US$ isn’t what it used to be, that’s still a lot of money.
Strangest. Announcement. Ever.
Today’s press release from the Social Liberal Party. Signed Margrete Vestager.