Interesting Links for 30-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole
  (tags: copyright internet piracy )
• Bill Drummon. Still barking. Still fascinating.
  (tags: BillDrummond music art klf )
• The Open Goldberg Variations: making classical music available for free, to do whatever you like with.
  (tags: music copyright )
• Kid doesn't want to wear a hearing aid, because superheroes don't. Mum emails Marvel, who leap to the rescue.
  (tags: hearing marvel comics epicwin )
• British monarchy ‘needs to be more like Game of Thrones’
  (tags: UK monarchy GameOfThones funny )
• Putting Cambridge University onto OpenStreetMap
  (tags: academia OpenStreetMap maps cambridge )
• How the THX sound was made
  (tags: sound Technology movies )
• The Cost Of Being An Unbeatable Evil Overlord.
  Gosh, I remember first reading the Evil Overlord list. Can't believe that was 18 years ago!
  (tags: evil cost funny )
• Some advice on what to do when your life is not going according to plan
  (tags: neilgaiman comic art life )
• DWP still breaking their own rules on Mandatory Work Activity
  (tags: viaJennieRigg uk welfare )
• Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’
  (tags: parenting children WillSmith )
• Legally binding arbitration over the internet - I wonder where this is leading...
  I think I first encountered the idea of companies choosing which private law to use for their contracts in Nevroville, back in 98-ish. Awesome book. Must re-read.
  (tags: thefuture internet law )
• Surgical snakebot slithers around your heart, carries its own scalpel and forceps
  (tags: thefuture medicine technology surgery robots )
• Canadian politics can occasionally be interesting (any Canadian readers care to comment?)
  (tags: politics canada )
• A company using consumer electronics to do awesome things in space
  (tags: viaFenland technology space )
• 80% of Britons happy to be living in a monarchy
  (tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm monarchy uk )
• Why I perform abortions: A Christian obstetrician explains his choice
  (tags: usa religion abortion )
• How the internet makes hyping harder
  (tags: internet marketing )
• Free childcare for two-year-olds being rolled-out in England
  (tags: childcare uk children )

Comments

[aiela.livejournal.com]

The THX sound story was really neat, thanks for the link!

[andrewducker]

I find the whole process fascinating, particularly the random component that makes each generation unique!

[simont]

Although it did seem a bit shortsighted to run the program n times, pick a specific output they liked, and not note down the random seed that had produced it.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

This!

[del-c.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like saying Baltimore PD needs to be more like The Wire.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

No because Baltimore PD's raison d'être is (allegedly) to catch and deter perps and keep the public safe. Copying a tv show, however excellent, will not help them do that.
The raison d'être of the British monarchy OTOH is to look good on telly and keep the punters (public and tourists) entertained - so copying GoT is an excellent plan.

[mair_in_grenderich]

On my skim-read, I thought for a moment that two-year-olds were being rolled out in England.

[andrewducker]

It's the latest dieting craze!

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

How long til I can get a snake bot to clean out my lower intestine?

[andrewducker]

Om nom nom.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I find it so strange that they always go after Pirate Bay and nobody has ever tried to go after Kick Ass Torrents or EZTV.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

But . . . one of the things Game of Thrones is reworked from is the Wars of the Roses.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

But surely a NORMAL evil overlord still has bullets? :)

[simont]

Yes, there seemed to be a few oversights in that evil-overlord cost analysis which missed the possibility that it was also expensive the other way or whatever. The one that jumped out at me was #31 ("my realm's tavern wenches will be chosen for their unlikelihood of giving aid or comfort of any kind to the hero"), which listed the cost of paying unemployment benefit to the people who would otherwise have been employed as tavern wenches. But surely it also saves paying unemployment benefit to the same number of other people who now will, so it ought to be cost-neutral!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"the cost of paying unemployment benefit to the people who would otherwise have been employed as tavern wenches"

I'm not convinced he quite has this 'evil' concept down pat either... :)

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

As one of the 20% who does not like living in a monarchy where is my/our representation on BBC television in the coming week?