Interesting Links for 02-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• Some more information on the forthcoming Watchmen prequel
  I actually have no objection to them making prequel comics to Watchmen. So long as they're not shit, of course.
  (tags: watchmen comics )
• 65% of Israelis think it would be better if neither they nor Iran had nuclear weapons.
  (tags: israel iran nuclearweapons )
• There are currently 24 spacecraft routinely wandering the solar system.
  (tags: awesome thefuture space )
• Tim Gunn Hasn’t Had Sex In 29 Years, And It’s None Of Our Fucking Business
  (tags: asexual celibacy sexuality sex )
• Internet jurisdiction revisited
  (tags: globalisation law internet )
• Flickr may be fucked
  (tags: yahoo flickr )
• Translating developer-speak into English. Very true, very funny
  (tags: comic geekery development games )
• How (and why) to read The Daily Mail (Interesting, but I'm not planning to start)
  (tags: politics media DailyMail )
• It's a lion-eat-owl world in captivity. (And presumably out of captivity, anywhere owls live near lions. Is that anywhere?)
  (tags: lions owls nature omnomnomnom )
• DWP staff to be 'spun off' into first central government mutual from March
  (tags: business dwp pensions government uk )

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Reading The Daily Mail is a good cure for apathy. There are, in each issue, absolutely guaranteed to be 3 or 4 articles that get my blood boiling in a *quite* different way to that (presumably) intended by the writers!

[simont]

I am disappointed that no previous links of yours are tagged "omnomnomnom".

[andrewducker]

Me too. I shall endeavour to tag more links in that manner.

[skington.livejournal.com]

I initially read that title as "It's an owl-eat-lion world", and was disappointed when the resulting article was far more prosaic.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> "People were horrified. Women and children were screaming. My little boy was in tears."

Oh for crying out loud. What did they expect from a lion? I can understand a little kid being upset, but adults?

[andrewducker]

I know! I bet most of those people were carnivores too...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Lion in "alpha predator" shocker! :)

[cyprinella]

We had a similar lion incident at the local zoo last year (Maybe the year before?) where a deer got into the lion enclosure and the lions had a very good time. They didn't end up killing it right then and there, but they did end up injuring it enough that it had to be put down. I suspect it was not then fed to the lions because of parasite concerns (and possibly how they put it down, if they used blue juice) but they certainly deserved it.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I am sad that the Flickr is being less used for p&s photos and that Facebook is eclipsing, well, that and everything else since Facebook is terrible for photos (other than them being integrated on facebook) and I really like Flickr.