links for 2008-07-10

Takes my BBC Topics / Guardian keywords posts and looks at them more formally through the prism of library classification. Good stuff.

"From viewing the YouTube comments and ratings it does not appear that the videos gained much traction". Exactly, call me cynical, but 'download day' being covered by the MSM, and it being a geeky thing anyway were surely more significant here?

Isn't this one of those tired old class things trotted out each year? What percentage of a randomly selected 650 people would have their main summer holiday in the UK? Does spending their entire lives within their constituency makes them better MPs?

"Sawalha, an activist with the anti-semitic and hateful organisation Hamas, is apparently objecting to the implication he is 'anti-semitic and hateful'. Fortunately, Harry’s Place is having none of it: 'A member of Hamas has no reputation to defend.'"