Interesting Links for 13-12-2020

[andrewducker]

2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy

(tags:piracy Disney streaming TV )

When you suddenly remember it's a video meeting

(tags:funny video )

A magical story of bringing a little light and happiness during the pandemic

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337598289080770561.html
(tags:happiness fairytale children pandemic )

Republicans are trying to restart the civil war.

(tags:USA civilwar republicans OhForFucksSake )

Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher

(tags:cryptography murder history USA )

Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can

(tags:art photography timelapse )

I rather liked this fan edit of The Hobbit movies.

(tags:TheHobbit remix )

Highlights from life as a flight attendant

(tags:flying jobs )

Autism spectrum — Large study supports discarding the term 'high-functioning autism'

(tags:autism )

New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night

(tags:speed safety driving cameras )

Any port in a perfect storm: UK container trade is grinding to a halt

(tags:trade UK Doom )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The beer can story is fascinating for any of us of the photographic persuasion!

[simont]

Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can

Loving the linguistic ambiguity in the link title. Of course, it's the longest exposure ever, not just the longest one that involved a beer can!

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's an odd way of writing it.

On a tangent - are you on any other social networks? I went looking a few days ago (adding people in more frequented places).

[simont]

A headline with a similar linguistic ambiguity that I rather enjoyed a few years ago: Escaped wallaby caught using huge fishing net. (What was it using it for, one has to wonder.)

No, DW is about as socially networked as I get. No FB or Twitter or anything else really. (Other than Monochrome, which hardly counts, and which I know you already knew about anyway :-)

[andrewducker]

Yes, the titters of Who fandom when this kind of headline comes up is a delight: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/doctor-who-killed-patient-on-operating-table-escapes-jail-733314.html


I actually went to Monochrome the other day, but it turns out I've completely forgotten my password.

[snippy]

Those states better not try to secede. There are millions of people there who don't agree with their fantasy plan, and it would be wrong to strand them there.

[andrewducker]

Well, I am aware that they tried before and it did not go well for them...

[danieldwilliam]

They keep forgetting that the other states have all the people and all the money.

[danieldwilliam]

I don't think there is a formal mechanism that allows States to succeed from the United States. That seems to have been the established constitutional position following the Civil War. Once you are in, you are in.

Similar to Spain.

I personally disagree with both those positions both morally and in international law - but neither the Spanish or American governments seem that fussed about my point of view here.

[andrewducker]

I also disagree that it's right. But it does seem to be the case.