Interesting Links for 20-05-2020

[andrewducker]

Who had Michael Bay in the "making a movie about the pandemic far too soon" sweepstakes?

(tags:movies michaelbay pandemic )

Recovered COVID-19 patients test positive but not infectious

(tags:virus pandemic )

The public do not??understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19

(tags:visualisation communication pandemic )

Why some Animal Crossing players are restarting Islands they've put hundreds of hours into

(tags:games stress pandemic viaSwampers )

Life in lockdown - from a seven-year-old's perspective!

(tags:poetry children Scotland pandemic video )

In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs

(tags:music Disney ontology )

Neil Gaiman: An apology

(tags:neilgaiman apology pandemic )

Blind people 'read' letters that are traced on their brains with electricity

(tags:cyborg sight technology blindness )

UK government hasn't banned gay conversion therapy two years after pledge to end practice

(tags:LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )

South Korean football team apologises for using sex dolls to fill stands

(tags:headline football sex korea )

Comments

[calimac]

Types of song: This derives a lot from a standard classification of musical theater songs like, for instance, here. I'd like to see how well non-animated Disney songs like, e.g., Mary Poppins, fit in.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that was fascinating!

[dewline]

1. Yeah, this was predictable for Michael Bay, wasn't it?

2. I want to take hope from this...

3. I know that I have trouble with logarithmic graphs. They're not impossible for me to understand, mind you. But the scales can vary based on context, right?

7. Well, that's been a mess at his end of things, right?

9. What's keeping them from instituting that ban? Reich-wingers hiding in their ranks?

[andrewducker]

The government has a bunch of deeply unpleasant people in it. Keeping them inside for the pandemic and Brexit means giving in to them on other things, sadly.

[cmcmck]

Nor trans conversion therapy (and yes, it does exist).

In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs

[jducoeur]

I am amused that the "Cheer Up, Kid!" montage shows up in Twitter as screened for "sensitive content". (Because Mowgli is shirtless? That's my only guess.)

Who had Michael Bay in the "making a movie about the pandemic far too soon" sweepstakes?

[jducoeur]

Does anyone else envision this being about a virus that is seven feet tall and shoots lasers?

[ninetydegrees]

4. This article is weird. This all seems like unhealthy and addictive behaviors that have nothing to do with the game itself but that's not the article's angle and I think this kind of anecdotal style about very serious issues like these, in times of forced isolation as if they weren't enough, isn't helping this industry. At least quite a few people commented on it.

10. Non-apology as its finest.