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 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 11:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
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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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From: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.
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