Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-25-2008
Aug. 25th, 2008 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Which sums up my feelings on Heath Ledger and the Oscars
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You will never see a more geeky hive of canon and continuity
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Which is actually more in-depth and backstory-filled than I was expecting
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A developer talks to Pirates and outlines the reasons why they don't buy games.
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Best article I've seen on a recent experiment
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Date: 2008-08-25 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-08-25 09:17 am (UTC)Actually - I'll write a post on it when I get the chance!
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Date: 2008-08-25 09:18 am (UTC)otoh most of my delicious links involve badger mitigation.
I have a two day conference in Glasgow in November on Badger mitigation.
I hate badgers
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Date: 2008-08-25 09:32 am (UTC)Instead download this addon for Firefox
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and use
http://www.notzen.com/lj.php
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Fill it in like this:
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Let me know if it works!
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Date: 2008-08-25 04:17 pm (UTC)Interesting fact: there is more legislation protecing badgers than any other species..
TMI! TMI!
Date: 2008-08-25 05:14 pm (UTC)PS Badgers do indeed get lots of extra protection - this is because the way they are sported (baiting and destruction of setts with dogs) is so truly awful and utterly cruel, it was noticed bloody ages ago[1] and so they got lots of extra protection before everything else did in the big Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981).
[1] 1830s for Badger Baiting, 1960sish for destruction of setts
Re: TMI! TMI!
Date: 2008-08-25 06:31 pm (UTC)Srsly this is an abolminable misuse of the verb "mitigate" - as I've always understood it, it was never meant to take the thing to be protected or helped as a direct object! You mitigate *for* possible calamities or outcomes; you make a plea in mitigation to ask a ned not to be sent to jail if you're a a lawyer (this is practically the only context in which I've seen it used); you do mitigate damage. but suely you can't mitigate (insert "threats") beavers without a for in there!!!
ps badger acts go way way back - the reason i know is we used to use it as a research question for out law first years! (The course convener added to the notes for tutors. "I wish i was a beaver." I have always remembered this thereafter..)
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Date: 2008-08-25 07:59 pm (UTC)I think the problem is saying "Mitigating possible negative impacts on" is a bit of a mouthful for people who'd rather be out getting muddy than stuck in an IEEM lecture hall talking about.. oh god I'm boring myself. Let's pretend this never happened.
Are there exciting laws for Beavers, too?
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Date: 2008-08-25 09:10 am (UTC)And don't get me started on Mara Jade (even though I love the character), it all seems a bit tenuous.
I guess Star Trek suffers from something similar but Lucasfilm doesn't really hold true when it comes to canon.
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Date: 2008-08-25 10:18 am (UTC)I'm not saying he wasn't brilliant. He was perfect. I'm just saying the part wasn't rocket science. And it was nowhere near the most impressive performance of his career.