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

[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 :-)