Linkage

• Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained (Charlie's Diary) A summary of Scottish grievances, which, rather unsurprisingly, have a lot to do with the Tory's, "F%$# them, they don't vote for us anyway," attitude.
• Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation(The Berkeley Blog) Libraries win a court judgement against publishers who wanted to keep them from helping the blind.
• Why Do Coal Mining Jobs Matter So Much More Than Jobs Lost to Trade? (Truthout)
• Linus Torvalds says that the suggestion that everyone should know how to code is bullsh%$ (The Register) I agree. I program (mostly shell script and MS Office macros these days), but when non-coders are forced to take programming courses, they are more likely to become computer phobic, and less likely to use them as tools.
• How corporate jets fly under shareholder radar (Reuters) Once more, our larcenous managerial class.
• World's most delayed software released after 54 years of development (The Guardian) 54 Years, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
• On 6/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn’t Know a Year Ago (EFF) Read this. It's short.
• US stock exchanges face lawsuit over high-frequency trading (The Guardian) Short version is that exchanges have an obligation to provide accurate data, and HFT is a violation of that obligation. I hope that the plaintiffs prevail, but I don't expect them to.

Time to stare into the face of God.

It's not a nova, it's the light from some sort of stellar upheaval reflected off of interstellar gas.

H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.