Interesting Links for 02-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Responding To The Lib Dem Policy Consultation on Immigration

(tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )

On discovering that you're not a failure - you're a penguin

(tags: penguins autism diversity )

New favourite theory about Mad Max

(tags: movies funny australia )

Check out this amazing hyper realistic painting of a cat!

(tags: cats art )

America is a dystopia

(tags: usa dystopia OhForFucksSake school )

Frodo Laid a Geas (I really ought to re-read LOTR)

(tags: lotr magic )

Cuttlefish does an amazing impression of a hermit crab

(tags: animals impressive ocean )

Heavy metal imagery to help with depression

(tags: depression HeavyMetal )

Men's ideal Hugh Jackman vs Women's ideal Hugh Jackman

(tags: gender society )

Why Do Cracking Knuckles Make That Noise?

I really wish mine didn't need to do it intermittently
(tags: bodies sound )

Vince Cable on internet regulation

(tags: regulation internet libdem )

How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity

Annoying that the article leads with the exercise, rather than the advice on healthy eating, the dieticians, and the banning of junk food advertising on the subway/sporting events.
(tags: obesity children netherlands )

The flags of most countries are really new

(tags: flags history )

Comments

[cmcmck]

As far as I know no one has written a US based dystopia.

Perhaps it's time for a US 'Nineteen Eighty Four' or 'We'?

[andrewducker]

The Handmaid's Tale and Revolt in 2100 are both set in theocratic dystopias in the USA, I believe.

[theandrewhickey]

And, just off the top of my head, The Iron Heel (the first modern dystopia), The Running Man, The Hunger Games, most cyberpunk, the Judge Dredd series, and It Can't Happen Here.

[jack]

Many of the most famous do seem to be non-american. The internet suggests Farenheit 451, Blade Runner, Running Man and a bunch of cyperpunk though.