Interesting Links for 11-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Various animals riding tortoises. Anyone know what the one at the top left is?
  (tags: kitten animals cute )
• Hamlet the Mini Pig Goes Down the Stairs - an adorable video
  (tags: viaSkreidle video cute pigs )
• The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?
  (tags: funny satire citizenship uk )
• “Run,” Bakri Says. A powerful short story of save points, lost lives, and the consequences of technology and war.
  (tags: technology computergames terrorism war scifi shortstory )
• Majority of MSPs back gay marriage. (69 pro, 9 against, 51 undeclared)
  (tags: scotland relationships lgbt )
• The Pixar story rules (or, at least, a version thereof)
  (tags: pixar stories storytelling writing )
• 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides (The moral being that some people just need a tiny ray of light to grab on to)
  (tags: suicide )
• How Inglourious Basterds links to the other Tarantino movies
  (tags: QuentinTarantino movies )
• 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
  (tags: movies )
• David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub.
  (tags: davidcameron )
• The sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
  (tags: penguins antarctic sex )
• Betteridge's Law of Headlines - is it true?
  (tags: headline questions )

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... well, weirdly, they mark the "ant and dec" question as right if you claim to know them either way round (any answer apart from "I don't know" is correct).

This is because they don't know the "ant and dec" identifying rule that ant and dec are (almost) always pictured in "ant and dec" order reading from left to right. (I found four exceptions in the first 50 or so google hits but one was a photo from behind, they can't defy physics).

[atreic.livejournal.com]

When I played with it I decided you got a mark for saying 'I can't tell' or a mark for getting them the right way round, and didn't get a mark for getting them the wrong way round.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... you are correct here. Clearly I was varying too many things while messing with this.

Some questions appear to have more than one "correct" -- the Ant and Dec question is one but not in the way I thought.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Yes. Apparently either going home in an ambulance or on a late train is British :-)