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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-11-29 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 29-11-2017

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Doctor Who

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-11-29 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Personally I thougth the ssecond half of episode one failed to deliver on the set up in the first half.
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Re: Doctor Who

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-11-30 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
I thought the theme tune was the best bit. Really innovative. They should give the composer some sort of award.
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Daniel Hannan and the EU

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-11-29 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[personal profile] j_v_lynch 2017-11-29 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I was almost halfway through that article before I realized that it was sincere.
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Re: Daniel Hannan and the EU

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-11-29 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Daniel Hannan was entirely sincere.
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[personal profile] calimac 2017-11-29 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[personal profile] anef 2017-11-29 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[personal profile] mair_in_grenderich 2017-11-30 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
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
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Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-11-30 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Caesar's British Romp Redoubt Revealed Say Archaeos!
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Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[personal profile] mair_in_grenderich 2017-11-30 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
:)
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Re: Julius Caesar's Britain invasion site found by archaeologists

[personal profile] anef 2017-12-01 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
Love the alliteration!
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Project Veritas vs. Washington Post

[personal profile] dewline 2017-11-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] heron61 2017-11-29 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-11-30 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
Can you carry a parachute whilst wearing a wing suit?
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[personal profile] benicek 2017-11-30 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
Actually those wing-suiters did cheer me up a bit.