Interesting Links for 04-07-2012
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andrewducker- Details emerge about the land submerged under the North Sea thousands of years ago, and the people who lived there.
- UK music - singles up 8%, albums down 13%. How do they count it when I buy just three tracks from an album?
- RIM and Nokia - spinning into oblivion (particularly RIM. If Nokia can sell Windows Phones they have a chance)
- Inside the library of awesome geekiness
- Cycle Facility of the Month.
Seriously, what were people thinking? I really want to know!
- Exposure to Dogs Could Protect Kids From Asthma
- Trek's Picardo shares sly trick that won him a First Contact cameo
- The Anatomy Formerly Known as the Hymen & the Myths That Surround It
- 6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think
- Natalie Bennett For Green Party Leader!
- Sorted This Way - a Lady Gaga/Harry Potter Parody.
It is so awesome that amateur stuff looks this good.
- Musician releases song to radio but not shops, another musician releases cover version to shops, gets lots of sales.
That's hilarious. The "Release to just the radio to build anticipation" strategy always seemed remarkably stupid to me. Especially nowadays.
- The NHS will need extra £20bn a year by 2020
- A new report comes up with a better way to size up wealth
- EU says you can resale software licenses. Waiting for someone to take Valve to court...
- The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut (satire of the Stief Larsson books. Very funny.)
- Louis C.K. sells tickets himself, cuts scalping by 96%
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Jesus Fish
Date: 2012-07-04 11:16 am (UTC)Iesus Christos Theous Ypsilon Sigma
Ichthys
Fixed that for ya :)
Date: 2012-07-04 11:17 am (UTC)Natalie BennettCommander Susan Ivanova For Green Party Leader!no subject
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Date: 2012-07-04 12:08 pm (UTC)Not as bad as having every single Slytherin join The Dark Side, but still pretty bad.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:26 pm (UTC)Them days is _gone_.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:31 pm (UTC)The parallels between the behaviour in that article and my tendency to torrent a film in between the cinema release and the DVD release are quite strong, too.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:38 pm (UTC)(I don't torrent cammed stuff - the quality tends to annoy me too much. TV that takes six months to come to UK TV, on the other hand...)
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-04 03:17 pm (UTC)I agree "not selling something" doesn't seem like a good idea. I can imagine it can sometimes be -- sometimes restricting supply can let you sell to a smaller market at a much higher price, I don't know exaclty how, but I know it sometimes does, but I've no idea if that often or ever works in music.
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Date: 2012-07-04 04:20 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version#U.S._copyright_law
The writer gets royalties, but the performer only gets paid if the version they performed on gets played.
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Date: 2012-07-04 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Jesus Fish
Date: 2012-07-04 08:00 pm (UTC)"ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthys) is an acronym for "Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ", (Iēsous Christos, Theou Yios, Sōtēr), which translates into English as "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior"."
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Date: 2012-07-04 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-05 07:16 am (UTC)* It's not unrealistic -- that's what the 11+ exam did in real life (except into "academic" and "non-academic" instead of "good" and "evil") -- but it comes across as "not written well enough" not "accurate portrayal that sometimes society isn't perfect"
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Date: 2012-07-05 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-05 08:14 am (UTC)I'm here for three days; try the fish.
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Date: 2012-07-07 10:23 am (UTC)