Interesting Links for 31-07-2012
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andrewducker- Tesco's web security is, frankly, unforgivable.
- Parenting has less of an effect on children's character than you might think.
- Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development
- How I almost lost my boyfriend to the Work Capability Assessment
I've seen this kind of thing far too many times.
- OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
- Peter Jackson Confirms Third Hobbit Film. *braingasm*
- Removing mobility allowance from disabled people will cost £324million in lost wages from people who can no longer work.
- Brain development delayed in people with ADHD
- Oxytocin makes people better at reading facial expressions (if they have problems with it normally)
- Why rape should not be banished from fiction
- How con-runner politics work (and why they can take a while)
- Hotel replaces Bibles with 'Fifty Shades of Grey' in rooms.
- Uruguay Considers Legalizing Marijuana to Stop Traffickers
- Beach volleyball abandoned after audience hears about the internet
- a black momma with a white baby writes an open letter to louis c.k.
- On the difference between neoliberalism and libertarianism
- When God wants you to play dress-up
- Who were the nine Olympic flagbearers?
- Why does Japan still use the fax so much?
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Date: 2012-07-31 11:04 am (UTC)I tweeted this link yesterday: http://likethebookshop.tumblr.com/post/28164604850/oh-my-god-i-just-witnessed-the-single-greatest-moment
and it got about 2,000 clicks. Which is high for me, but happens once every couple of months.
And then Graham Linehan retweeted it. And Chris Addison seems to have picked it up from him. Which means that it's had an additional 31,000 clicks in the
last three hours.
I feel all special. Now, I just wish I'd _written_ something that viral.
Lessons learned: use all caps when linking to things. It makes people click them (ok, not really. It works for the various HULK tweeters, but I can't see it working for me.)
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Date: 2012-07-31 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 01:17 pm (UTC)Or done something that someone else tweeted that went viral :) But maybe you get credit for bumping it up a couple of orders of magnitude, even if you were in the middle of the chain :)
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Date: 2012-07-31 11:11 am (UTC)This is more or less a real-life reenactment of that bit from Life, the Universe and Everything, isn't it?
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Date: 2012-07-31 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 12:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 07:55 pm (UTC)Does claiming to have a secure webstore count as any kind of actual provision of service?
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Date: 2012-07-31 07:58 pm (UTC)I wonder if Sony was sued after it leaked loads of passwords and credit card details.
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Date: 2012-07-31 08:03 pm (UTC)If I want to use one of those "disposable" electronic credit card numbers, it's difficult in the UK. And there wererelatively few options for pre-paid type bank cards in this country, and even they have charges associated to discourage their use compared to your normal debit/credit card.
Rather than the current expectation that eventually your details will be compromised in some fashion, it would surely be sensible for a bank to say "Hey, here's a way to be safer online"
Except they can't do that, because then they can't sell the premium "we totally monitor the internet to make sure no one is selling your bank details, I promise we do and will react before anyone does anything, I swear" accounts.
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Date: 2012-07-31 08:14 pm (UTC)I wonder what an actually safe method would look like.
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Date: 2012-07-31 12:35 pm (UTC)Given the brutality of the world that Game Of Thrones is set in, and the way women are regarded in that world, it would be bizarre if rape wasn't brought up.
That said if you suddenly inserted a rape into The Hunger Games (a society that is fucked up in many ways, but does seem to have a certain equality for women and absence of rape culture) then it would be gratuitous and jarring.
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Date: 2012-07-31 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 12:45 pm (UTC)I know several friends (who I didn't think to warn because I didn't think they'd ever read it) who freaked the fuck out after reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" - because there is not even a vague clue on the dust jacket that it's going to contain multiple involved realistic rapes.
What disturbs me about Game Of Thrones is that in the book Dannarys first night with Drogo isn't rape - but for some reason HBO made it into a rape scene in the show - making that storyline really problematic, because it becomes a story about her falling in love with her rapist, which is not what happened in the book AT ALL.
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Date: 2012-07-31 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 08:31 pm (UTC)Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 05:54 pm (UTC)It isn't too difficult to put all the elements of the book onscreen in under 2 hours. possibly three hours if you are setting up the big war a bit more and showing more of the battle than what's described in the book.
Adding a third part just takes the cake. Sure, it'll be visually pleasing, but this really smacks of squeezing every last penny out of the fans rather than giving us a good film.
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 06:22 pm (UTC)Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 06:39 pm (UTC)*Which is not to say that I won't, I loved the LOTR trilogy films
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 06:53 pm (UTC)Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 07:33 pm (UTC)It's bad enough that they revised the Hobbiton Pillage in LOTR, when they could have ended part 3 at Rivendell and then had the opportunity to do What Happened Next. Adding extra material that does not enhance or add tension to the quest feels like Jackson is worried he'll never work again in Hollywood.
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 07:40 pm (UTC)But, if they can manage it...
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 07:58 pm (UTC)Unless, of course, the intra-book stuff is essential in order to justify the ultra-mega-extended box set with both film trilogies. It mostly sounds money-grabbing though.
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 08:00 pm (UTC)_Which_ extra detail has varied at several points, but that's still not clear now, so I'm happy to waive that one.
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 09:28 pm (UTC)Instead we'll get Hoibbit insterspersed with plugging in of stuff most people familiar with The Hobbit story will just be confused/bored by.
Grr, I want: Hobbit dragged into Quest, Trolls! Pocketsesses & Riddles! Wolves! Eagles! SPiders! Elves! Dragon! Battle! Home Again! The End!
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 09:32 pm (UTC)Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 06:22 pm (UTC)Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 08:05 pm (UTC)If it's a trilogy of films about Bilbo Baggins, that's fair enough. But the first two parts would be The Hobbit, and the last one would be something else set in Middle-Earth, much as how the Silmarillion isn't part of The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings.
Re: Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All
Date: 2012-07-31 08:12 pm (UTC)The two films were originally Hobbit + linking movie. Then Hobbit with Necromancer/Dol Guldur bits in it (rather than alluded to, as they are in the book). I wonder if it will now be both.