Interesting Links for 06-05-2017

[andrewducker]

Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surveillance

(tags: surveillance uk Conservatives )

What if the government are deliberately sabotaging Brexit?

There's a thought - from the long term view is it going to be worse to have a _hideous_ Brexit that means people want to rejoin, or a merely bad one that lets people pretend we're better off out?
(tags: europe uk conspiracy )

Why the only mechanical watch that could tell you when Easter was now needs an update

Really fascinating. And what happens when you try and encode multiple complex things together as if there was an underlying pattern.
(tags: time religion watches design history )

Measles outbreak rages after anti-vaccine groups target vulnerable community

(tags: OhForFucksSake vaccination disease )

Comments

[cmcmck]

It is a thought, especially when you consider that May is at most a very lukewarm outer.

[naath]

So that watch doesn't calculate easter at all, it 'just' has a lookup table, and it's run out... Given that it does moon phase and day of week you think it could actually do the calculation.

[andrewducker]

I thought the article made it pretty clear that the calculation of that would take up more space than they could fit into the watch.