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andrewducker) wrote2012-06-29 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2012-06-29 12:00 pm
Interesting Links for 29-06-2012
- The internet will never catch on! (Article from 1995. Looks like satire from this perspective.)
- More details (and insider info) on what happened to RBS with their "software glitch".
- 35% of Scottish electricity needs came from renewables in 2011 - and 2012 is up 45% on 2011 so far!
- If the writers of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks
I have seen so many coding books which use examples that are whole, useful programs to illustrate things, rather than tiny snippets that a beginner can actually understand.
- JPMorgan's $2Billion Trading Loss May be a teensy bit higher
- Money-laundering and corruption charges rock Edinburgh council.
As Zornhau put it "HEADS ON SPIKES! BRING BACK IMPALING FOR CORRUPT OFFICIALS!"
- When SCOTUS Upheld Obamacare
- People Who Say They're Moving To Canada Because Of ObamaCare
- A great review of Season 1 of The Legend of Korra which highlights all the things that annoyed me about it.
- Is 40% the maximum level for UK public expenditure?
- Labour’s cowardice on immigration is sickening (Lib Dems also far too quiet)
- Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren't Remakes, Sequels or Prequels
- Ursula the Sea Witch Forced to Get Liposuction for Disney Villains Beauty Line
- Verdict on 'not proven' sought from Scottish public
- Time to scrap the tax on e-books
- Scientists come up with spray on battery
- Israel stages Holocaust survivor beauty pageant
- A touching story of intolerance that brought a tear to my eye.
- The Nordic Model - I thoroughly approve
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Yes, there is a bit of a temptation to think "Book I love! They're making a failm of it! THEY WILL SURELY MISS THE POINT OF EVERTHING AND IT WILL BE AWFUL", isn't there?
('failm' was a genuine typo there, believe it or not. But definitely one to leave in, having made it. :-)
What I found interesting, reading that list, was that I had very different reactions to the idea of forthcoming films based on two books both of which I enjoyed. Ender's Game gave me that strong feeling of "SURELY THEY WILL COCK IT UP UNBEARABLY", but Neuromancer gave me a feeling of "actually that one has some chance of coming out OK". Not sure why; those were my instant gut reactions, not based on thinking it through carefully.
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Personally, I'm not re-reading The Hobbit until I've seen both films, and am carefully reading behind the Game Of Thrones TV series.
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But I don't know that that's necessarily the inevitable destiny of any William Gibson novel anyone tries to turn into a film! Though certainly I can't think of any faster way to wreck Neuromancer than to try to fit it into the same continuity as film-Johnny-Mnemonic.
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