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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-22 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-22 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2011
- The spider that can process things too complex to fit in its brain all at once.
- What the recent paper on statistical interpretations of quantum physics means. (I skipped the equations).
- The cool twists of language
- Should swearing be against the law? (Err, no)
- How the automatic transmission almost killed the sperm whale
- UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause | The New Civil Rights Movement
- How SpaceX is revolutionarising space travel.
- This is how I feel about dress codes.
- 5 Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie
- British Columbia court to rule whether polygamy is constitutional
- The 12 Most Baffling Genres of Stock Photo, Explained | Cracked.com
- David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality
- Bionic contact lens to project emails before your eyes
- The Secret World - A Lovecraft meets Illuminati MMO
- Why the eurozone must change or die (part #1742)
- The daft hysteria over the EU's ruling on water and dehydration
- General tax avoidance prohibition should be introduced
- The Trials and Tribulations of HTML Video in the Post-Flash Era
- Are you a graduate with a child at least 18 months old? Take 5 minutes on a study to help understand autism.
- Can there be party funding consensus? (in the UK. Clearly there won't be in the US)
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6. Blokes with posh English accents are either bad guys or Hugh Grant.
7. It is not possible for an attractive woman to have dark skin. Where a script calls for the attractive female lead to be black, she will therefore be played by a half-white or otherwise mixed race actress with a complexion rather paler than a Wigan girl after two weeks on the Costa del Sol. This rule has done wonders for the careers of Halle Berry and Thandie Newton.
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7a. Any half-black, half-white actor or actress is considered to be 'black'. In fact the ratio can be less than half for the actor or actress to still be considered 'black'.
(To be fair, this rule isn't restricted to acting in the US. The same rule applies to politicians - including the president. There is also the homeopathic Irishman rule whereby any American politician with even the tiniest drop of Irish blood in his ancestry can claim to be Irish.)
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