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andrewducker- Technological progress not slow or steady, but superexponential
- Why not pipe the water from north to south England?
- Steam/Valve’s Gabe Newell talks wearable computers, why consoles should open up, and game ownership
- Dutch scientists aim to produce lab-grown hamburger this year - with 60% smaller environmental footprint than existing burgers.
- Sauerkraut Station (SF story which just got nominated for a Nebula)
- Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal
- Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes
- We are all connected - an example of how your local economy is global
- Possibly the finest pun in the history of awful geeky puns
- When did 8/10 become a bad score? Seriously, I remember when 70% was pretty damn good
- Advert on Oxford Street shown only to women
- See a dinosaur in accurate colour, for the first time ever.
- Hollywood's Next Great Business Model: Praying That Stars Die
- Will people please stop thinking of the children? The SOPA author back and worse than ever
- Can we please not have a war with Iran?
- Slowly but surely, TV is moving onto the web
- No 10 sides with gay couples over full marriage
- Losing weight twice as difficult as diets claim. Plus, of course, temporary diets are really bad for you, and don't work long term
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:17 am (UTC)Or relocating some of our industry and population to parts of the country with water.
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-21 11:58 am (UTC)Personally, I think it's a stroke of genius - very few people will see the actual ad, huge numbers more have heard about it via the free advertising it's getting on the news services.
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Date: 2012-02-21 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-21 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-21 12:27 pm (UTC)and this is the point where it tells me that as I'm a man I can't see the content?
(Or rather, this is the point where it tells me that, according to the prevailing gender culture, it is broken.)
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Date: 2012-02-21 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-21 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-21 04:33 pm (UTC)Isn’t it discriminating against women by playing them an advert that men can avoid?
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Date: 2012-02-22 09:40 am (UTC)A billboard which doesn't bother you unless you bother it first? Best kind!
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Date: 2012-02-21 05:46 pm (UTC)the most likely result of you needlessly splitting an article over several pages is that I will only read the first page. Which is fucking irritating. Stop it.
Back to the point, though - I remember a flood of angry letters to the Official PS Mag when FFIX was given 9/10 for being 'too much like other FF games', while the most recent Tomb Raider sequel was given a perfect 10/10. I was also bloody furious about it, primarily because it was editorially inconsistent. If you're punishing a good game for being a sequel, you should punish a mediocre game for being a sequel.
the video ad: would serve mostly to remind me why I don't have a TV, and why I rip DVDs. Clever enough to be entirely self-defeating. The one thing I will not do is remember to [or pull my phone out and] check a website because a bus-stop told me to.
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Date: 2012-02-21 05:50 pm (UTC)fixing the infrastructure [which is massively expensive] would do rather a lot to cure existing drought levels, with no need for piping in from the north.
Scotland also sells rather a lot its surplus supply to England already.
[my data is almost certainly out of date, can't be bothered checking]
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Date: 2012-02-21 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 03:35 am (UTC)Oh great....
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Date: 2012-03-02 07:06 am (UTC)