Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Cause for bee colony collapse found. Nothing to do with mobile phones, of course.
  (tags: bees)
• 5 Flash Games That Hate You. My favourite is You Have To Burn The Rope
  (tags: games flash satire song)
• Steamshovel Harry. An awesome Flash game. Level three is very tricky though. Watch out for the holograms.
  (tags: flash games funny music satire)
• Walkers experiments with crisp packets made of potatoes (that's "chips" to Americans)
  (tags: crisps biodegradable potato recycling environment)
• The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop. I remember some of this stuff from my youth. Thank fuck it's long dead.
  (tags: music uk 1970 history tv)
• Interesting analysis of the Labour shadow cabinet position allocations
  (tags: labour uk politics)
• Apparently girls can't write Science Fiction. It's genetic.
  (tags: scifi writing feminism)
• 20,000 football shirts were printed for the Pope's visit. 520 were sold.
  (tags: catholicism christianity religion uk)
• French ISP 'Free' refusing to send out copyright infringement notices to its wsers
  (tags: france copyright EpicWin)
• Some things you may not know about Facebook groups
  (tags: facebook groups privacy)
• Daily Mail finds an immigrant it can get behind!
  (tags: immigration uk tv wtf)
• Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain
  (tags: terrorism obama pakistan europe us propaganda)
• Prepare for the apocalypse: For $800, Costco Will Sell You a Year’s Worth of Freeze-Dried Food
  (tags: food apocalypse usa)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Free is my ISP - and I have to say one of the best ISP's I've ever dealt with.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Is this "Steamshovel Harry" thing a joke? It's been playing annoying autotuned music for 5 minutes without letting me skip the grade school nonsense and PLAY THE GAME.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaand it hit the end and restarted.

Yeah, not funny. In the future please note when the 'fun flash games' you link are 'insulting stupid non-game flash videos', yes?

[andrewducker]

Sorry, I assumed that sticking it under the "Five Flash Games That Hate You" (which is where I got it from) would make it obvious.

But yes, practical joke. With awesome music. I particularly liked the astronomy song.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I had to give up on it because the flashing lines in the intro were giving me a headache and I really don't need another migraine. Seems like it was for the best.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop. I remember some of this stuff from my youth. Thank fuck it's long dead.

Typically lacking in research from Petridish there. Where are the real horrors like Lovelace Watkins, Tony Monopoly, Gerry Monroe or the two gentlemen featured in my avatar?

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I have a week off work and I find out about new crisp packets from the internet. Why did no-one tell me?

I still can't quite believe we have zero landfill from our factories now :)

[andrewducker]

We do? What did I miss?

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Ok, to clarify "we" means Walkers, not "every UK factory".

Every so often I am proud of the multi-corp for which I work.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah. I didn't realise you worked for Walkers!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Apparently girls can't write Science Fiction. It's genetic.

Good heavens. Someone tell Leguin and Bujold, we must stop them at once! *rolls eyes*

(not that I don't think she has a point, I'm just not convinced this one was a feminism issue as opposed to a reviewer has a dumb definition of sci-fi issue)