Interesting Links for 16-12-2018

[andrewducker]

Soup-Salad-Sandwich Space

(tags: food visualisation )

How the CGI Tarkin was created for Rogue One

(tags: StarWars cgi faces )

KeyForge: The red-hot card game where every deck is unique—and unchangeable

(tags: games review )

Outdoor cats kill over 2 billion birds per year and have made over 60 species extinct

(tags: cats death wildlife )

This is mostly how I feel when people talk about the terrible effects of mobile phones and social media

(tags: Technology socialnetworking comic )

Mansplaining is proof you live in a hard scifi novel

(tags: scifi sexism funny )

Sunday Times reports that PM’s team is plotting a new referendum

(tags: UK europe referendum )

“Pass Brexit deal and fall behind Lib Dems.", voters tell Corbyn in poll

(tags: labour polls uk europe )

British voters despair of both Conservatives and Labour

(tags: voting UK politics )

Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers

(tags: computing numbers mathematics )

The Gillian Duffy/Gordon Brown conversation was a watershed in British politics

(tags: politics immigration labour OhForFucksSake )

What it's like to have ingested a lot of British culture via TV, despite not being at all British

(tags: uk culture tv )

Comments

[calimac]

Regarding the dismal polling numbers, I count 2005 as the election when the UK switched from the traditional system of voters dissatisfied with one party rotating to another, to a system where they reject all the parties, and the government goes to whomever loses least badly.

Regarding whether Gordon Brown made a gaffe or was telling the honest truth: both, actually. The US pundit Michael Kinsley defines a gaffe as when a politician tells the truth, or, more precisely, says what they really think.

[dewline]

There are times when such a thing is not a gaffe, but is precisely what's needed at a particular moment. The current Trudeau's had a few of those, ditto several of his cabinet.

[calimac]

Have they? I don't get much Canadian news: do you have any links or examples handy?

[zotz]

Although the lowest turnout was 2001 and it's risen in each general election since.

[calimac]

Turnout alone doesn't measure this phenomenon. While it's risen, it hasn't risen that much, and is still low historically. 1997 was a drop on 1992, yet the turn to enthusiasm for Labour was high. 2001 was lowest probably because that was the year that the Tories reached their absolute nadir in hopelessness.