Interesting Links for 13-07-2014

• Over Half of All Statements Made on Fox News Are False
  (tags: viaSkreidle news FoxNews )
• A more fundamental International System of Units
  (tags: physics measurement )
• Neuroscience: The man who saw time stand still
  (tags: time brains neuroscience perception )
• Thousands of new homes in Edinburgh moving off the drawing board?
  (tags: Edinburgh housing )
• TERRORISTS THREATEN OUR FOOTIE! (As the Sun would say)
  (tags: terrorism middle_east islam football )
• DARPA tests bullet-sized homing missiles
  (tags: military technology )
• This Land Is Mine (a brief, and irreverent, history of Canaan/Israel/Palestine)
  (tags: history religion palestine israel video )
• Astronomers Surprised to Find Asteroid With Rings
  (tags: space astronomy asteroids )
• Can anyone explain why Viking Longboats always have red and white sails?
  (tags: viking history questions )
• UK Electrical Socket Covers are both unnecessary and dangerous
  (tags: safety electricity plugs viaPhilmoPhlegm )
• Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can't see it...
  (tags: viaDrJon light colour technology )

Is there an actually good reason why the final is on both BBC1 and ITV?

Surely that's a bit of a waste of money/frequency space?

A brief couple of thoughts on the recent finale of Game of Thrones

My brother Mike hadn't seen the finale, so we rewatched it on holiday.

And I had a couple of thoughts about, that I am terrified to go and share on a GoT forum, because I will undoubtedly run into people talking about things I haven't heard yet.

First, a non-spoilery factlet - the combat at the end is, I believe, filmed in the Mourne Mountains, and Julie spent large chunks of it having flashbacks to her Duke of Edinburgh expedition through there, and the glandular fever she was suffering with at the time.

So, spoilers( Read more... )