Interesting Links for 06-09-2017
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- I have seen 12 of the 100 Worst Movies Ever - How many have you seen?
- (tags: movies epicfail )
- On Progress and Historical Change. (Deep, detailed, worth your time)
- (tags: history change science Technology society )
- Engineering Problems for New Parents
- (tags: babies exams funny viaSwampers )
- Scotland announces automatic pardons for people convicted of same-sex offences.
- (tags: scotland lgbt law AlanTuring )
- Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they're made out to be—here's why
- (tags: birds windpower viaPatrickHadfield )
- Neural networks can name guinea pigs
- (tags: names cute ai )
- The British antifa of 1947
- (tags: fascism wwii history uk )
- Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space
- (tags: heat efficiency )
- Being a Star Wars Director Is the Worst Job in the Galaxy
- (tags: StarWars )
- The Etiquette of the Victorian Handshake: Advice on Opposite Sex Greetings
- (tags: gender etiquette history )
- Eating meat linked to higher risk of diabetes
- (tags: meat diabetes )
- Octacosanol helps you sleep when you're stressed (if you're a mouse)
- (tags: stress sleep )
- How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out
- (tags: stress work mentalhealth )
- This is the best explanation I've read of how the mind works (and ties in nicely with my preconceptions/guesses on the matter)
- (tags: brain mind perception )
- Conservative leadership favourite totally opposed to abortion and marriage equality.
- Part of me would *love* for him to be their leader at the next election, because it would doom them.
And part of me worries - what if he got in?
(tags: abortion lgbt marriage equality Conservatives ) - "Woman trapped in window trying to retrieve poo after Tinder date" is my new favourite dating story
- (tags: relationships faeces funny )
- America’s Shifting Religious Makeup Could Spell Trouble For Both Parties
- (tags: politics religion usa )
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Date: 2017-09-06 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-10 11:31 am (UTC)I have seen 12 of the 100 Worst Movies Ever - How many have you seen?
Date: 2017-09-06 11:27 am (UTC)Elektra, Jonah Hex, I really *wanted* to be good, but fell very flat.
The recent Fantastic Four I thought it genuinely added some worthwhile things to fantastic four worldbuilding, while overall not really being a success. I was glad I watched it, and wish it could have been done better, while not really recommending it to others.
I feel like, if they ever actually filled in a second Highlander movie after I and before um IV (?), it would deserve a whole page by itself http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=109
Re: I have seen 12 of the 100 Worst Movies Ever - How many have you seen?
Date: 2017-09-10 11:32 am (UTC)(Maybe "Batman & Robin")
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Date: 2017-09-06 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 11:50 am (UTC)Diabetes
Date: 2017-09-06 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 12:22 pm (UTC)The article on bird strikes is completely statistically incomprehensible. I could write a critique about its holes and inconsistencies, but why bother?
The article on Rees-Mogg sounds so shocked that he'd oppose abortion after rape. It's a common position among abortion foes in the US, though. Some abortion foes had noticed that it was inconsistent to declare the fetus an innocent that had to be protected and at the same time show enough mercy to rape victims to allow them to abort. So they decided to be merciless instead.
Articles on mind and progress look fascinating, but too long to read while surfing your link list for comments. Saved for later.
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Date: 2017-09-06 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 02:16 pm (UTC)The Bicentennial Man
Catwoman
Fantastic Four
Home Alone 4
Ishtar
The Last Airbender
The Smurfs
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Spice World
Supergirl
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
White Chicks
Zardoz
So 13.
Whilst I don't think any of the one's I've seen are good I'm not sure that they are the worst movies of all time.
Mind you, I'm struggling to think of any that are worse.
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Date: 2017-09-06 03:44 pm (UTC)I'm never sure what I count as most "bad". Some films are aggressively bad, but sufficiently schlocky I'm sort of interested in it. Some are just really bland and boring and mediocre. Some catastrophically offend me in multiple ways, but are possibly worthwhile to someone else...
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Date: 2017-09-07 01:12 pm (UTC)I found the Spice Girls fun and energising and the movie was more of the same.
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Date: 2017-09-10 11:26 am (UTC)(And listened to the album quite a lot too.)
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Date: 2017-09-06 02:20 pm (UTC)i am very much looking forward to the Rees-Mogg premiership but I think he'll be used as a stalking horse for someone else and that that someone else is probably little more than stalking horse for a third party.
I found this article on Political Betting thought provoking.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/09/03/the-body-in-number-10-solving-the-mystery-of-theresa-mays-replacement/
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Date: 2017-09-06 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 02:31 pm (UTC)Zardoz does have Sean Connery in one of the best future outfits ever. Troll 2 is the worst movie of all times (there's a documentary to prove it). Still haven't seen The Room, but James Franco is playing the guy from it in his new movie and that looks amusing.
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Date: 2017-09-06 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-07 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-07 12:59 pm (UTC)https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/where-foes-of-wind-turbines-may-enrich-developers-they-oppose
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Date: 2017-09-07 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-10 11:25 am (UTC)(And I'm definitely in favour of them going where the readers are, and if that's what they speak, then that's how to talk to them.)
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Date: 2017-09-08 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-09 06:53 am (UTC)Absolute BEST line in reaction to 'Highlander 2' came from a friend when my scifi club went on opening night. We filled 2 full rows in a packed theatre. My friend said in his deep, booming voice as movie faded to black = "There should have only been one!"
... he got applause from the entire audience [not just our group]