Random links
- Canada to allow small scissors and tools onboard planes
- Today's earth-shattering news: your tweezers aren't too likely to make the plane you're flying on crash.
- Better in than out: African country set to make breaking wind a crime
- "The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders 'who foul the air' ... [b]ut locals fear that pinning responsibility on the crime will be difficult - and may lead to miscarriages of justice as 'criminals' attempt to blame others for their offence."
- S.E.C. Hurt by Disarray in Its Books
- "Since the commission began producing audited statements in 2004, the Government Accountability Office has faulted its reporting almost every year. ... the fact that basic accounting continually bedevils the agency responsible for guaranteeing the soundness of American financial markets could prove especially awkward just as the S.E.C. is saying it desperately needs money to increase its regulatory power."
- Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List
- "About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women." The article states that Sue Gardner, who heads the foundation "has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015, but she is running up against the traditions of the computer world and an obsessive fact-loving realm that is dominated by men and, some say, uncomfortable for women." Basically the problem she argues is that there's conflict, and that women as a minority group amongst contributors feels intimidated. Still, given the short lengths of article on areas of interest that are particularly female, makes me wonder just how much this is the case. Or are the short lengths of these articles a result of a contributor base only 13% female?