Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-24-2010

[andrewducker]

• Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
  (tags: feminism adalovelace programming women)
• Red Button Preview of The Eleventh Hour on UK Freeview on the 27th
  (tags: DrWho BBC TV UK)
• Dogs! In the Snow! Sledging!
  (tags: dogs cute video)
• Last supper has been super-sized
  (tags: lastsupper food art religion)
• Jack Straw pledges libel law overhaul
  If they win, of course.
  (tags: law uk)
• BT ordered to share ducts, telegraph poles and fibre-optic cable for fast broadband
  (tags: uk telecoms internet broadband)
• Genocide and Jedi: why the Sith may be right in Old Republic
  (tags: starwars jedi philosophy sith)
• Ways of seeing - disability and representation
  (tags: disabilities society)
• Infinite USB plug is a big idea for small conveniences
  (tags: usb technology design)

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

Ah, Ada Lovelace day. You'd think that would come up in the women's organisation I work in.

Great idea, and I've written a post.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

OMG!!

Love the Ada Lovelace stuff! Didn't know about her and now I'm adding her to my classroom curriculum.

Yay for dogs sledding!!

And I think the Jedi are idiots for not feeling. And not letting Jedi's marry/love/etc. Stupid. And the Sith need to stop thinking that just because they feel doesn't mean they get to slaughter everything in site. I mean really people. Were are the balanced Jed'Sith in all of this? Well I guess I gotta think them up. :)

[andrewducker]

I believe there is one who is prophesies to bring balance to The Force.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

*choke, laugh, gasp*

Ok, yeah, but could the next person be a little more, well, balanced? ;)

[andrewducker]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Chosen_One

:->

[simont]

I'm faintly disappointed that 'balance' turns out to be intended to mean 'light side only'. The obvious interpretation of the concept, in the light of the prequel trilogy, was that the Jedi started off vastly outnumbering the Sith but by the end of Ep3 Anakin had levelled the score at two-all. (Of course, in this interpretation, the prophecy conveniently omitted to mention the subsequent one-nil victory by the end of Ep6; but it would be a feeble prophecy that told the whole truth without misleading.)

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

:)

I like my version better. ;)

Oh and thanks for sharing this!

[wychwood]

Interesting blog post on the Last Supper story.

[andrewducker]

Well, it didn't seem terribly scientifically valid to me. It was amusing though.

And I'm particularly amused by how much effort the person in your post went to.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Jedi are Apollonian while Sith are Dionysian? Nietzsche in Star Wars?

[andrewducker]

I think that chaos and order thing predates Nietzche somewhat. Especially as Lucas is a big fan of Kurosawa, his inspiration might be somewhat more Eastern :->

[andrewducker]

I just found this. It's worth reading and also the followups:
http://www.rilstone.talktalk.net/mask-of-god.htm