Interesting Links for 17-3-2011

[andrewducker]

• Tories considering breaking the coalition if AV wins the referendum...
  (tags: conservatives av uk government)
• Pepsi unveils new plastic bottle made from plants rather than petrol
  (tags: sustainability pepsi plastic)
• EU considers walking away from US data agreement - US not honouring it
  (tags: privacy usa europe EpicFail)
• Some scientists talk about the worst case scenario at Fukushima.
  (tags: earthquake japan nuclear tsunami)
• Quiz: Science fact or fiction? (I got 7/8)
  (tags: scifi science bbc quiz)
• Janne In Osaka: On Radiation - people are panicking ignorantly...
  (tags: Radiation nuclear japan fukushima)
• Charlie Sheen - an explanation (only makes sense if you've seen BSG)
  (tags: CharlieSheen bsg funny)
• Deaths per TWh by energy sources
  (tags: energy visualization statistics nuclear)
• Ireland and Doctor Who (Éire agus an Dochtúir Cé)
  (tags: DrWho ireland)
• Strange Horizons Reviews: Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die
  I'm about four stories in so far. It is good (so far).
  (tags: writing scifi reviews)
• The best description ever of how Magic: The Gathering is played (halfway down the page)
  (tags: magic game)
• Grown Adult Actually Expects To Be Happy
  (tags: philosophy funny psychology)
• Clever Israeli PSAs for parents of gay teens
  (tags: lgbt parenting)
• Egyptian military torturing protestors
  (tags: egypt military torture protests humanrights revolution women)
• Proclaiming the Alternative Vote in Leith (how I spent Sunday)
  (tags: av voting uk)
• God Hates Japan
  (tags: Japan atheism funny)
• DC Comics exec says that off-again Sandman TV series is back on again | Blastr
  (tags: comics sandman neilgaiman)
• 300,000 new jobs in the UK - mostly for the over 50s and men.
  (tags: jobs uk wtf)
• Iowa Woman Jailed for Thinking about an Abortion
  (tags: abortion law usa)

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

That description of MtG delighted me unutterably, and also reminds me why I stopped playing. ;)

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I encountered MtG whilst an unparalleled LARPing snob. I watched a game for an unknown time [it may have been up to 3 hours], asked a couple of friends what was going on [they explained as only a firebrand geek truly can] and figured out that the total cards on deck must be worth at least £10,000.

one guy kept going on about Black Lotus, and how it had cost him a second mortgage, and how he would not play it, but was trying to source a second copy.

That was more than enough to prevent me ever remotely attempting to even look at a card again, never mind play.