Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-25-2008

[andrewducker]

• Why So Posthumous?
  Which sums up my feelings on Heath Ledger and the Oscars
  (tags: funny Batman)
• Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop
  You will never see a more geeky hive of canon and continuity
  (tags: starwars movies geek continuity comics games fandom)
• Mysteries of Doctor Who #16: Is he MORE than just a Time Lord?
  Which is actually more in-depth and backstory-filled than I was expecting
  (tags: drwho)
• Talking To Pirates
  A developer talks to Pirates and outlines the reasons why they don't buy games.
  (tags: piracy videogames drm software games)
• Why cooperation is hard for people with borderline personality disorder
  Best article I've seen on a recent experiment
  (tags: psychology brains science)

Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Clearly last night has taken it's toll because my first thought was "what would a pirate want with a video game?"

[andrewducker]

Arrrr, there be electronic booty to be had!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

You really must sit down and explain to me how to get delicious to do this one time.

[andrewducker]

*added to my to-do list*

Actually - I'll write a post on it when I get the chance!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I gave it a shot following the instructions you linked to (I have some webspace at nytoo.rumandmonkey.com) but nothing happened).

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

[andrewducker]

Don't use the delicious website - they borked things recently.

Instead download this addon for Firefox
http://deliciousblogrescue.mozdev.org/
and use
http://www.notzen.com/lj.php
as the posting address.
Fill it in like this:

only with your Delicious username (and password) in the top bit and your lj username (and password) in the bottom bit.

It'll then post everything for 24 hours from before the point you selected.

Let me know if it works!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

How in god's name do you mitigate a badger??

Interesting fact: there is more legislation protecing badgers than any other species..

TMI! TMI!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

you don't, you mitigate for them. ("Thinking Like A Badger: Mitigation Design and Management Planning")! Srsly, the conference is mitigation for all sorts of species, including "Mitigation for Butterflies" and "Reptile Mitigation: Conservation Or Just Killing Them Slowly?" Mitigation is truly an exciting branch of ecological management.

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!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

OMG, think like a badger? is it like walking like an Egyptian??

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..)

Re: TMI! TMI!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

gah, what can you do, it's a living language and you let just any old biologists and ecologists use tools designed for lawyers and english..ists...

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?

[trav28.livejournal.com]

I find Star Wars canon and continuity so frustrating as each generation of new media (Force Unleashed or the Zahn novels for example) seem to re-write and contradict what has gone on before. I mean, if there was a secret apprentice between prequels and sequels, why have we not heard of him before?

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.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

He was playing a four-colour comic book character. Sure, yes, a scary, twitchy, crazy one, but he was still four colour. He was a collection of a couple of mental and physical ticks and a raspy voice. His performance? Was excellent, no question. But he wasn't exactly playing a part that required much range or sensitivity - the Joker was on one level throughout the whole film, and the level was "I'm twitchy, crazy and unpredictable". Every roleplayer knows (or, to cover my arse "a high proportion of roleplayers would agree") that that's pretty much the easiest character to play.

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.