Interesting Links for 04-02-2012
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andrewducker- There's a "Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers" article in the Daily Mail. For once you _should_ read the comments!
- How Republican opposition derailed SOPA and Protect IP
- An interview with Nick Clegg
- Porn for Pregnant Ladies
- The first page of H.G. Wells’s version of Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds
- A sudden realisation as to why the Republican party hate gay people.
- Darkness, a gorgeous, funny and thoughtful comic (done in 24 hours too!)
- Less than six months until the Europe IPV4 address pool runs out
- A patent attorney's guide to why Apple are in trouble in Germany
- Clearly we need new punctuation
- GMs dicuss what the nerdiest thing theyve ever written into a game design is.
- Ducker's 7th law - ask the hardest, nerdiest question you can think of and someone will instantly answer.
- Why You Won't Quit Your Job
I went through three different jobs where everyone complained, and eventually I left to get a better job, with people saying they'd be right behind me. A couple of years later I'd bump into someone and they were still in the job they hated, complaining all the time, and not doing anything about it.
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Date: 2012-02-04 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-04 01:17 pm (UTC)Presumably with right-wingers being gormless plebs and all, and left-wingers being super-intelligent high-achievers, rich and successful people would tend to vote for left-wing parties while the right-wing parties would depend for their votes on unintelligent menial workers...
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Date: 2012-02-04 01:23 pm (UTC)If you want to critique the research then feel free - it's been handily linked to above :->
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Date: 2012-02-04 02:21 pm (UTC)Mean age 10 IQ scores for people voting in the 2001 general election for various parties were as follows: Green 108.3; Liberal Democrat 108.2; Conservative 103.7; Labour 103.0; Plaid Cymru 102.5; Scottish National 102.2, UK Independent 101.1, British National 98.4; Did not vote/None 99.7.
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Date: 2012-02-04 02:27 pm (UTC)Here's a hard geeky question: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/3569008.html
What was that novel that featured the brawny normal humans rebelling against their brainy kids?
Slight clue-- it was probably written before the nineties.
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Date: 2012-02-04 02:29 pm (UTC)But, all jokes have been thought of by other people before. No joke is really original, because human behavior doesn't change much over time.
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Date: 2012-02-04 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-04 05:29 pm (UTC)-- Steve doesn't think the party ever really caught on to the last bit; their hand-drawn maps of the place were quite bizzare.
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Date: 2012-02-04 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 06:52 pm (UTC)-- Steve thinks that some such article was probably the inspiration behind a friend's Villains and Vigilantes adventure set in a hypercube-shaped "literal interpretation" of the Eagles' Hotel California.
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Date: 2012-02-04 07:28 pm (UTC)(page 16)
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Date: 2012-02-04 07:28 pm (UTC)(page 16)
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Date: 2012-02-05 12:45 am (UTC)Incidentally, turn to page 34 and you'll find an article on expanding the boardgame Imperium. Imperium is the GDW boardgame that first introduced what would become the official Traveller setting. The highlight of my Traveller collection is the second copy ever printed of Imperium, signed, authenticated, mint and unpunched.
http://pics.livejournal.com/philmophlegm/pic/000453x3/
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Date: 2012-02-04 07:29 pm (UTC)It reminds me of the bit from MacAvoy's The Gray Horse about the Irish thinking the English are insane for preferring "spirited" horses.
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Date: 2012-02-06 04:04 pm (UTC)