Interesting Links for 17-09-2021
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- Tesla autopilot will randomly swerve towards pedestrians
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- The Fellowship of the Walk
- (tags:lotr video funny music )
- When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher
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- Scottish taxes don't subsidise English spending
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- I look forward to the forthcoming definition of "British TV" that some poor bureaucrat is going to have to try and come up with
- (tags:UK TV WTF regulation conservatives )
- Are *you* ready for Autumn Spider Festival?
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- Giant fossilised penguin found by New Zealand school children is previously unknown species
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- Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to the varnish
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- Massive age-related division opens up in British society on a new front
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- Why Is Inflation Rising Right Now? A Stuffed Toy Shows Why
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- Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
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Date: 2021-09-17 02:45 pm (UTC)It's known that there's diamond dust in the varnish.
The wood's also wet seasoned and that has an effect too.
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Date: 2021-09-17 03:34 pm (UTC)Done
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Date: 2021-09-17 03:46 pm (UTC)But there are lots of reasons:
https://geekandsundry.com/heres-why-the-eagles-didnt-take-the-one-ring-to-mordor/
(Not least of which is that Sauron had flying Nazgul in the air over Mordor!)
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Date: 2021-09-18 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-18 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-17 06:19 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrJPiq9QGM
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Date: 2021-09-17 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-18 12:43 pm (UTC)I was certainly not expecting anything other than "really nice sound", which I got, not being any kind of conoisseur of violin. But it sounded better for the music of its own era, which makes some sense.
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Date: 2021-09-18 12:45 pm (UTC)