Your Happening World (4)

NASA has a much better DouglasAdams tribute than that last sequel.

Turns out more robot explorers have their own Livejournal and Twitter feeds.

Carter Ruck didn’t want you to read about this:

61 N Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.

It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup, as they say. But the crime itself was horrible as well, as the report on Trafigura’s toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast makes clear. Just don’t think too much about all the companies handling our toxic waste and where it all ends up.

Where we’ve sent our robots so far.

How safe is the HPV vaccine?