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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2010-07-29 12:01 pm
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[identity profile] spacelem.livejournal.com 2010-07-29 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Questions 4 and 20 are pretty much the same question.

[identity profile] spacelem.livejournal.com 2010-07-29 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The Orwell/Huxley link is pretty scary.

[identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com 2010-07-29 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have an original Kindle, and I don't think I'd want a DX - it wouldn't fit in my coat pocket, and I think it would be difficult to read it one-handed on the Tube, which I can do with the original. I'm tempted by the revamped WiFi, though!

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-07-29 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Inception probably fails the Bechdel, though I was pleasantly struck with how neither of the two female characters got used as eye candy.

[identity profile] a-pawson.livejournal.com 2010-07-29 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
That the government acknowledges homeopathy doesn't work, yet is still recommending the NHS continue to provide access to homeopathy is probably the craziest thing I have ever heard.

I fear Cameron's "big society" idea. The idea of giving people more say in, and actually being responsible for running public services sounds good on paper, but has a fundamental weakness IMHO. I fear many people will prove incapable of making sensible, strategic choices.