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andrewducker) wrote2011-12-09 03:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2011-12-09 03:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 09-12-2011
- This is pretty much how I feel about wine-tasting and whisky-tasting.
- Scotland’s Hurricane Bawbag raises Twitter storm
- Star Wars vs Star Trek: An Objective Analysis
- The Biggest Star Wars Plot Hole, Explained By Science!
- You've Probably Read Enough
- First realistic 3D reconstruction of a brain circuit
- TWO giant pandas were very drunk within 15 minutes of arriving in Scotland, it has emerged.
- Occupy protesters talk reform with the head of the FSA
- Women to be allowed to serve on Royal Navy submarines
- A full addon pack for Defense Grid - with GladOS! Glee!
- SF to be first city in US history to set minimum wage over $10
- France and Germany urge common corporation and financial taxes
- The truth about supermarket 'bargains'
- High school senior kills cancer with nanotech, still can't legally drink
Personally, I think anyone that kills cancer should be given special drinking dispensation. Although their brains should also be classified as national treasures, and protected from alcohol at all costs.
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More bugfixing at the weekend!
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Here's some expensive portuguese manufactured toilet paper.
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http://blog.toiletpaperworld.com/where-did-all-the-colored-toilet-paper-go/
I'm not familiar with any toilet paper that has aloe or shea, although I have heard of facial tissue like that. I always get my preferred brand of TP (based on high post consumer recycled content), and don't pay much attention to the rest.
I remember a particular toilet paper that they had in Germany; it was thick (but not soft), grey in color and must have been recycled... an inn which I frequented while visiting my aunt had it. It was so rough and uncomfortable, that I took to buying my own toilet paper when staying there.
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In Star Wars, isn't the storm troopers missing all the time more plausibly explained by the "They got away, just as you planned, with the tracking device attached to their ship" plot? After all, why plant a tracking device on the ship and then order your soldiers to shoot all the pilots?
Apart from on the death star I think the only chance in Star Wars that Storm Troopers get to shoot is at the Mos Eisley launch which did look a tricky shot. Once they're in the TIE fighters the Storm Troopers seem pretty good at getting rid of rebels.
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Palpatine's comments did strongly suggest the Stormtroopers were under orders to miss convincingly.
As Luke stated, "Your overconfidence is your weakness."
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Hmm, I'll have to keep an eye out next time I do a rewatch!
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watching her foibles over the years rendered me an acute sense of when not to buy.
it doesn't always work, but I do try.
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But can't wine tasting be just about trying different varieties for the interest in the different tastes, without it being about being made by Albanian nuns etc etc?
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the AutoCorrect and #bawbag posts had me in fits yesterday. Exactly what I needed.
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