Interesting Links for 18-01-2012
Jan. 18th, 2012 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- Some nice visualisations of inequality
- West Lothian Question commission members announced
- Facebook & Google to Permanently Launch IPv6 in June
- Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds
- Dreamwidth antispam's Yearly Stats: 2011
- There Are So Many Reasons Why You Should Watch Starship Troopers Right Now | Tor.com
- Scientists evolve multicellular life from single celled life in under 60 days
- The Tragedy of the Smurfs
- Phages: The powerful new bio-ammo in superbug war
Yes, I know the headline sounds like a soundbite from the Startship Troopers movie.
- C# v5 will have a breaking change
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Date: 2012-01-18 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 02:57 pm (UTC)We start out with Tam Dalyell (an Awkward person) being very awkward by asking the Question in the first place and getting the Question Wrong, followed swiftly by Enoch Powell (a Bad Thing) asking the Right question but giving the Wrong answer. The Beatles made things even more confusing by releasing A Day In The Life where they said there were four thousand holes in the argument about Blackburn, Lanarkshire.
For many years people tried to stop talking about the problem, but the Scottish-English border includes the Debatable Lands so they had to be talked about.
John Major (Good Man but Weak Prime Minister) tried to answer the West Lothian Question by getting lots of people to talk about it while out on a healthy walk - the Scottish Constitutional Conversation. But the SNP walked away, for fear of Hard Labour.
When Scottish Deviation could no longer be turned down, Tony Blair (Good-Looking Man but Bad Prime Minister) made Donald Dewar try to flush the West Lothian Question down the toilet, by means of a Sewer Convention.
When David Webcameron took over from Tony Blair, he thought Ken Clarke was trying to hush him up, and accidentally asked the him West Lothian Question out loud. As punishment Ken Clarke was sent to retake the Falklands with a Geography Taskforce, but got in to trouble for a jazzed-up dossier.
Free Malcolm Rifkind was the only Tory in Scotland. He would give the East Lothian Answer, which was clearly Wrong, but since he was the only Tory, nobody was listening, so he had to keep giving it.
After Deviation, David Webcameron and I-Agree-With-Nick Clegg grew jealous of Scotland's growing and successful Salmond-farming industry. So they now plan to Decommission the West Lothian Question by putting it verifiably beyond use.
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Date: 2012-01-18 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 04:42 pm (UTC)"I wouldn't call it a breaking change, but rather an enabling change: code that was once subtly wrong will now start to behave as expected."
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Date: 2012-01-18 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 06:01 pm (UTC)The music, the art direction, the cinematography, the dialogue, the buuuuuuugs, it does it all so well.
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Date: 2012-01-18 08:05 pm (UTC)