Interesting Links for 25-05-2012
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andrewducker- Tennesee police can just confiscate cash, without evidence of a crime.
- Community Studio Tells Cast How to Address Dan Harmon Firing
- The euro is slowly fixing itself
- It is already quite easy to sack people
- Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews
- What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of (and how plastic democratised consumption)
- Where did dogs come from? It turns out we don’t really know.
- Female Pilot Ejects Passenger Over Sexist Remarks.
- An unbiased review of the Marvel “Thor” Movie (Hilarious if you know anything about Norse mythology)
- An Unbiased Review of the Marvel "Avengers" Movie (not _as_ funny, but still quite funny)
- Visual Studio 11 Express will not be able to produce standard desktop applications
- What's behind the Coalition's new tone on the economy?
- The Game of Thrones Cast In and Out of Character
- LimeWire Sued For More Money Than Exists In The World
- Three Myths about What Customers Want (Yup, that's right, we just want to buy stuff and move on with our lives.)
- Although sectarianism is still rife, Northern Ireland’s teenagers are gradually breaking down religious barriers
- Genetic Find Could Open Door for New Male Contraceptives
- How Newsnight demonised a benefits mother
- How the German Pirate Party's "Liquid Democracy" Works
- Why Take The Flour Back are wrong and I’m leaving the Green Party
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Date: 2012-05-25 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-25 11:46 am (UTC)And it's completely clear from the first movie that _these are not the Norse gods_. They are alien creatures of immense power who inspired the tales of the Norse Gods.
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Date: 2012-05-25 12:02 pm (UTC)The Greek Pantheon is very important in the (old) DC universe too - after all Wonder Woman is Athena's champion - and Olympus and Hades (the place) have been visited by quite a number of the DC heroes.
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Date: 2012-05-25 11:39 am (UTC)That reminds me of the joke about Germaine Greer on a passenger jet.
The stewardess shows her to her seat and recognises her as the famous feminist. "Ms Greer, I'm such a fan of your work. And may I say that you are flying on the best airliner in our fleet. Not only are all the stewardesses female, but we have a female captain, a female co-pilot and a female flight engineer."
"That's wonderful!" exclaims Ms Greer. "I know this is difficult nowadays, but I'd be very interested in meeting this all-female flight crew. Would it be possible for me to come up to the cockpit?"
"Oh, we don't call it that anymore..."
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Date: 2012-05-25 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-25 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-25 12:39 pm (UTC)Ejects passenger> alas, not quite as literally as the headline hints...
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Date: 2012-05-25 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-25 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-25 11:27 pm (UTC)I am trying to get things done, but cannot due to the ridiculous number of interesting links you post. This simply will not do!
Yours,
Irritated, North Edinburgh
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Date: 2012-05-26 02:04 pm (UTC)