More random links
- Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 working days
- "... working from several sources including their own monthly tallies and other survey research, they came up with a range of between 1,354 and 1,518 [privacy policies read] with their best estimate sitting at 1,462. So, each and every Internet user, were they to read every privacy policy on every website they visit would spend 25 days out of the year just reading privacy policies!" The figures are from 2008 so, as the article notes, it's probably worse now.
- Obama apologizes to Afghanistan for Quran burning
- Not sure how mainstream an opinion this is: "Afghan religious scholar Anayatullah Baligh said it can be appropriate to burn a damaged Quran to dispose of it, but that it should be done by a Muslim performing the act respectfully. 'I can't tell you whether Americans intentionally burned the copies of the holy Quran to make Muslims angry or if they did it mistakenly,' he said, but said their 'carelessness' was 'a crime they have committed against the holiest book of 2 billion Muslims around the world.'" So is burning OK is not done in a "careless" manner?
- We’ll mock Jesus but not Mohammed, says BBC boss
- "The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. ... But Jesus is fair game because, he said, Christianity has broad shoulders and fewer ties to ethnicity."
- French-German Border Shapes More Than Territory
- Will the French try to adopt some of the German system? "Sélestat also has an unemployment rate of about 8 percent, much higher than towns just across the border in Germany. Emmendingen, a German town of 27,000 that is only slightly larger than Sélestat and barely 20 miles away, has an unemployment rate of under 3 percent. Among those under 25 years of age, the unemployment rate in Sélestat is 23 percent; in Emmendingen, it is 7 percent. The divergent economic circumstances of these two towns are striking, particularly given the cross-border cultural ties in the region."
- How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?
- In case you were curious or needed to know.