links for 2011-08-31

Excellent piece from Lloyd away from the usual doom'n'gloom

The curse of trying new tech when work blocks it - Google Docs and Dropbox become less useful if you can share the documents across locations

Not *entirely* convinced that you can extrapolate from a more tablet friendly design that Amazon are about to launch a tablet themselves, but hey-ho...

"If ‘reality’ was what they were after in EastEnders, the Queen Vic would have been put out of business by teetotal Islamic fundamentalists and all the women in the cast would be wearing the hijab". I would complain to the PCC about this utterly untrue racist drivel, but then, they've already ruled that Littlejohn can incite as much racial hatred as he likes because nobody takes him seriously

Ex-Slayer takes down anonymous Mail reporter (via @norock)