Interesting Links for 29-11-2017

[andrewducker]

Ticket resale sites could face court over consumer law concerns

(tags: tickets law uk )

How Bored Panda Survived Facebook's Clickbait Purge

(tags: facebook viral business )

A woman approached The Washington Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.

(tags: fraud usa politics abuse media )

Netherlands fishmongers accuse herring-tasters of erring

(tags: headline fish fraud )

How Google Translate magnifies cultural biases

(tags: bias gender google translation )

Evidence that Doctor Who has never, ever, been as good as it used to be

(tags: drwho tv history )

Two wingsuit fliers pull off a breathtaking stunt over the Alps when they jump from a mountain and then land inside an airplane

(tags: amazing video mountain flying )

What Daniel Hannan thought Britain would look like after Brexit

(tags: uk Europe )

Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed

(tags: Samsung batteries )

New genetic variations linked to educational attainment: Genetic overlap between cognitive ability and longevity

(tags: genetics Education longevity )

Maternal mental health: How far have we come?

(tags: mother mentalhealth uk fail )

Court backs salesman's claim for 13 years of holiday pay

(tags: holidays money law uk )

Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

(tags: history rome uk )

Amazon.com "not found" pages have dogs on them. Refresh for MORE DOG!

(tags: dogs amazon awesome )

Comments

Doctor Who

[danieldwilliam]

Personally I thougth the ssecond half of episode one failed to deliver on the set up in the first half.

Re: Doctor Who

[andrewducker]

Frankly it all went downhill when they introduced the weird old guy in the box.
Just unrealistic!

Re: Doctor Who

[danieldwilliam]

I thought the theme tune was the best bit. Really innovative. They should give the composer some sort of award.

Re: Doctor Who

[andrewducker]

Just so long as they don't muck about with it too much. You know what these TV shows are like for constantly tweaking things that are working fine.

Daniel Hannan and the EU

[danieldwilliam]

Daniel Hannan may well turn out to be right but I don't think he envisaged starting from here.

Or, indeed, starting from anywhere actually located in the same space time continuum as the UK.

Re: Daniel Hannan and the EU

[j_v_lynch]

I think I was almost halfway through that article before I realized that it was sincere.

Re: Daniel Hannan and the EU

[andrewducker]

It did read very much like this:
https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/3463781.html

Re: Daniel Hannan and the EU

[danieldwilliam]

Daniel Hannan was entirely sincere.

[calimac]

Cultural bias tweeter has some good things to say about how technology isn't neutral. It's an example of the "Cold Equations" fallacy: what seems to be neutrally objective is not; it depends on how it's framed and presented.

Sign of the times further down the thread, when someone claims that, since the original tweeter didn't create the translation chart, it's therefore plagiarized. I don't think people even know what plagiarism is any more.

Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[anef]

I was a little puzzled by the heading - I mean who else would have found it? Then I realised that it was "found by archaeologists" ie that archaeologists are saying "well this looks like Julius Caesar's site but we don't really know" which is all anyone can say at this point.

Then I spent some time trying to construct a better heading. "Julius Caesar's invasion site may have been found" "probably found in Kent" but it does read a bit weakly as a heading. Ah well, I'm probably over-thinking this.

Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[mair_in_grenderich]

Archaeologists believe they have found...?

Or do you particularly want Caesar at the beginning as the eyecatcher:

Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found, say archaeologists

Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[danieldwilliam]

Caesar's British Romp Redoubt Revealed Say Archaeos!

Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[mair_in_grenderich]

:)

Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[anef]

Love the alliteration!

Project Veritas vs. Washington Post

[dewline]

This is what should always happen when you try to pull a fast one on Marty Baron's crew, whatever news service they happen to be working for at the time: full public humiliation, and hopefully charges to follow.

[heron61]

Two wingsuit fliers pull off a breathtaking stunt over the Alps when they jump from a mountain and then land inside an airplane

One thing that struck me when watching this was that if either of the people had missed the plane they would have died, since wingsuits don't reduce velocity enough to survive landing. So, for me this falls into the cool but *really* foolish category.

[danieldwilliam]

Can you carry a parachute whilst wearing a wing suit?

[andrewducker]

Yup, frankly I'd stick it in the "effectively suicidal" category.

[benicek]

Actually those wing-suiters did cheer me up a bit.