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10th anniversary

Links

i'm not a big fan of blog posts that are nothing more than a collection of links -- especially when that was all you posted last time too.

Regardless, here's one:

The UK Prime Minister issued a formal apology to Alan Turing - the brillian computer scientist who was forced to undergo chemical castration after being found guilty of homosexuality
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Follower reports on the Digital NZ hackfest in Christchurch
http://words.rancidbacon.com/digitalnz-hackfest-christchurch-2009.html

BLDBLOG have another story on the Maunsell Towers
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/maunsell-towers.html

10th anniversary of the filming of LOTR to pass unremarked in Wellington on 10th October.
http://nznoldor.blogspot.com/2009/09/lotr-filming-day-one-10th-anniversa...

The Onion reveals that only 13% of wikipedia contributors are women
http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/238/the-onions-vox-pop-on-wikipe...

UNICEF reports a 28 per cent decline in the under-five mortality rate, from 90 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990, to 65 deaths per 1000 live births in 2008
http://www.unicef.org.nz/article/1084/Globalchildmortalitycontinuestodro...