Interesting Links for 10-09-2012
Sep. 10th, 2012 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- Fascinating discussion of narrative in game with one of the people behind Portal and Portal 2.
- Amanda Palmer asks the worst thing that's happened in your bedroom. There are many answers.
- On Canon, Dr Who, and the geekish tendency to fence in stories
260th
- Meet Dan Spitz, Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker
- 5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic
- Every time I read about Valve I want to work there more...
- Heterogeneous parallel programming - an explanation for laypeople
- NHS watchdog claimed that whistleblower Kay Sheldon was mentally ill
- DRAGONCON 2012 - Gangnam Style Music Video. Oh, the costumes.
- The dark secret of arcade crane games: 17 times out of 18, you will lose
- The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It
- A virus that kills cancer: languishing due to lack of £1m for further testing
- Mischief Managed: the Harry Potter Retrospective - the whole series in 13 minutes.
Cue people complaining that their favourite moment wasn't in there.
- 34.5% of US Internet Population not using Facebook/Twitter - a further 31% won't use them to sign in.
- The fire-retardant in your sofa is probably giving you cancer. And not preventing fires.
- How To See The Future (If you are not _blown away_ by the present day, you are not paying attention)
- A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children (What century are these people living in???)
- Making people log in to unsubscribe from email is against Federal Law
- Okay, why did nobody tell me of "Pythagosaurus"? Bill Bailey, maths _and_dinosaurs?
- 60% of MSPs believe that drug policy isn't working
- The Green Party has just committed to the right of workers to buy out companies and turn them into co-ops.
- New research reveals tap water could explain some of Scotland's liver-disease problems.
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Date: 2012-09-11 10:29 pm (UTC)> Okay, why did nobody tell me of "Pythagosaurus"?
I did.
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:06 pm (UTC)