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links for 2006-12-04

  • BBC NEWS | Entertainment | First ‘gay wedding’ for Archers
    This is the face of true middle England acceptance. Doesn’t it just give you the warm fuzzies?
    (tags: bbc thearchers archers radio soapoperas civilpartnerships gaymarriage gaypolitics)
  • Lost in transit no more – Technology – smh.com.au
    Interested to see how this plays out — especially as my bags got lost on the way over to the US yesterday!
    (tags: travel RFID technology improvements innovation baggagehandling)
  • BBC NEWS | World | Africa | SA same-sex marriage law signed
    What I find MOST interesting about these developments in my home country is that legislation is very much leading social change. Growing up in SA, I faced a LOT of open discrimination. But the country has taken a stand — the constitution says discriminat
    (tags: southafrica gaypolitics gayrights gaymarriage progress democracy constitution legislation rainbownation patriotism)
  • BBC NEWS | Business | HIV ‘afflicting global workforce’
    “South Africa, among the worst-affected nations, has announced a plan aiming to halve the infection rate by 2011 and to boost the use of antiretrovirals.”
    (tags: southafrica africa HIV AIDS progress health globalcatastrophe epidemics patriotism)
  • BBC NEWS | Health | HIV ‘condemning many to poverty’
    “It found evidence of hate crime and discrimination against people with HIV, which was driving some into poverty and isolation.”
    If cancer sufferers were treated the same way as those with HIV, everyone would be up in arms
    (tags: HIV AIDS diversity discrimination health)
  • Dark Reading – Desktop Security – Banking on Security – Security
    Rather scary account of social engineering security breach in a bank.
    (tags: business socialengineering security technology psychology social hacking)
Posted by delicious @ 9:23 PM on December 4, 2006
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