Entries tagged with peterjackson

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Interesting Links for 03-11-2023

1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman': (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.: (tags:Scotland government communication )
3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.: (tags:Scotland Rome archeology )
4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video: (tags:peterjackson Beatles video music )
5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months): (tags:insulin diabetes temperature )
6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs: (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers: (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
8. The TRUTH about stars!: (tags:stars space comic funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4117438.html

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Interesting Links for 26-11-2021

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?: (tags:light )
Why a Mass Effect TV show is a terrible idea: (tags:TV games writing plot )
Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing bill: (tags:law UK protests OhForFucksSake )
Reinfections of Covid-19 are 90 per cent less likely to result in hospitalisation or death than primary infections: (tags:Pandemic )
Why carbon taxes really work: (tags:co2 globalwarming tax )
The Beatles - Get Back review: Peter Jackson documentary is a seven-hour masterpiece: (tags:Beatles history documentary peterjackson )
It's not 'polarization.' The USA suffers from Republican radicalization.: (tags:USA politics Doom republicans viaDanielDWilliam )
More thoughts on the way that Polarisation has been made The Problem of American politics: (tags:USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
Tony Blair tells Keir Starmer to 'reject wokeism' and wage war on socialism: (tags:labour tonyblair OhForFucksSake )
The unforced error by Boris Johnson of publishing the letter to the French President: (tags:uk europe diplomacy fail migration france )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3750925.html

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Interesting Links for 18-12-2018

Workers get new rights in the UK: (tags: rights work uk )
How "The Tinkerbell Theory of History" is carrying us down the road to ruin.: (tags: history uk myths )
The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got: (tags: programming advice viaFanf )
How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New: (tags: wwi movies history peterjackson )
This is why techy 'solutions' for ageing and emergency care scare me. This one went out of business and this poor woman probably died thinking someone had been called.: (tags: death technology OhForFucksSake )
Gently stroking babies reduces pain felt during medical procedures: (tags: pain babies touch )
People with extreme political views cannot tell when they are wrong: (tags: thinking politics thought )
NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday, December 18: (tags: facebook racism usa )
Hull hotel cancels Christmas bookings for homeless people: (tags: OhForFucksSake homelessness )
America uses corn for nearly everything: (tags: usa food weird )
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job: (tags: israel wtf law usa )
Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison - BBC News: (tags: deer Disney crime prison usa )
Banks to be banned from charging higher fees for unarranged overdrafts: (tags: banking UK )
'Overactive Immune System' May Be The Cause Of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: (tags: immune_system )
Labour will wait until Brexit deal defeated for government no-confidence vote: (tags: labour UK europe doom )
Packaging producers to pay full recycling costs under waste scheme: (tags: UK environment )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3743315.html

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Interesting Links for 21-11-2018

George R.R. Martin, now 'in hiding,' has wondered if he'll ever finish The Winds of Winter: (tags: gameofthrones GeorgeRRMartin )
The predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the waterbed: (tags: robertheinlein predictions )
Flat Earth conference attendees explain how they have been brainwashed by YouTube and Infowars: "It looks like you're easily taken in, how about you watch a video about how to join cults next?"
(tags: youtube videos fraud OhForFucksSake )
Nicola Sturgeon vows to work with Tory rebels and Labour to build Commons 'coalition' against May's Brexit deal: (tags: SNP uk europe )
They Shall Not Grow Old was an amazing piece of documentary filmmaking. I was riveted.: (tags: wwi history documentary peterjackson )
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline: (tags: android linux )
An independent Scotland should be allowed to rejoin EU, Spanish foreign minister says: (tags: Scotland Spain Europe )
New Labour was far more leftwing than it is given credit for: (tags: labour UK history )
Ruth Coker Burks, the cemetery angel: (tags: aids usa history death )
Brain-Destroying Prions Also Spread Through Victims' Eyes: (tags: eyes brain disease )
RPGs are Done with Edgelords and Bigots | Pop Culture Uncovered: (tags: roleplaying society racism sexism OhForFucksSake )
Amber Rudd admits new Brexit referendum on table if Theresa May's deal rejected by parliament: (tags: uk europe )
A mathematical proof that every odd integer is the difference of two squares - which fits in a tweet!: (tags: twitter mathematics )
The greatest Christian schism in hundreds of years happened last month.: (tags: christianity russia ukraine )
Lancet restaurant gives medical professionals discounts based on publication impact factor: (tags: medicine research food china )
The Brown One, The Honey Eater, The Shaggy Coat, The Destroyer - why bears are called anything but their real name: (tags: bears language )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3400955.html

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Interesting Links for 21-01-2016

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Interesting Links for 20-11-2015

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Interesting Links for 14-01-2015

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Interesting Links for 12-08-2013

Hamlet banned by the British Library for being too violent.
This is what web censorship does. Falsely censors things that you don't expect, while leaving access open to things you would.
(tags: censorship web )
There's something linguistically interesting going on here.
(tags: comic funny language )
Tracking devices hidden in London's recycling bins are stalking your smartphone
(tags: uk tracking london surveillance )
The Director's Guild of America interviews Peter Jackson
(tags: lotr peterjackson movies )
Wizard of Oz to be adapted into TV medical drama
(tags: WizardOfOz epicwtf tv hospital )
6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal
(tags: viaMoni relationships )
Ethnic minority voters could hold key to 2015 general election result
(tags: uk elections demographics )
Prince Charles and his 36 private meetings with cabinet ministers.
See, if they were purely ceremonial, I wouldn't care at all...
(tags: uk royalty )
The ultimate app for people that read on the toilet!
(tags: funny toilets )
git+webcam=awesome
(tags: photos webcam versioncontrol git )
Web filters give pirates the ability to block any site they feel like...
(tags: censorship epicfail web piracy )
Is Gawker getting paid to write stuff? (Journalism is dead, long live the new journalism!)
(tags: journalism viaBartCalendar media )
New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith
(tags: religion faith intelligence )
WTF is wrong with Americans?
(tags: prison education usa healthcare )
US judge changes baby's name from Messiah due to religious beliefs
Have they even _heard_ of the separation of Church and State?
(tags: religion children usa )
Government to tell people which advisers can help them avoid tax.
(tags: uk tax )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2950426.html

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Interesting Links for 27-07-2013

The same actress playing different teenage girls for over twenty years.
(tags: tv age )
Gorgeous art of the same house in many different kinds of weather
(tags: art weather )
What it's like to work with a bear who's a _teensy_ bit of a diva.
(tags: animals tv gameofthrones )
The Archbishop of Canterbury is innumerate
(tags: religion money credit )
Peter Jackson liveblogged the last day of filming for The Hobbit.
(tags: peterjackson thehobbit )
Groupcache - a memcached replacement
(tags: memcached google cache )
Swimming naked with whales.
(tags: nudity whales )
How to have sex in the style of various animals
(tags: animals sex funny )
Historically Accurate Disney Princess Song
(tags: viaFyrie funny disney video )
Legalising drugs wipes out drug dealers (in San Francisco)
(tags: drugs usa legalisation )
"Get Loki" by The Avengers (Parody of 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk)
(tags: music avengers funny video )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2877707.html

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Interesting Links for 02-03-2013

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Interesting Links for 03-08-2012

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Interesting Links for 31-07-2012

Tesco's web security is, frankly, unforgivable.
(tags: tesco security EpicFail )
Parenting has less of an effect on children's character than you might think.
(tags: parenting children behaviour )
Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development
(tags: software people development efficiency cooperation management projectmanagement )
How I almost lost my boyfriend to the Work Capability Assessment
I've seen this kind of thing far too many times.
(tags: mentalhealth welfare uk disability )
OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
(tags: funny transport )
Peter Jackson Confirms Third Hobbit Film. *braingasm*
(tags: TheHobbit peterjackson lotr epicwin )
Removing mobility allowance from disabled people will cost £324million in lost wages from people who can no longer work.
(tags: work disability welfare uk )
Brain development delayed in people with ADHD
(tags: brains adhd psychology development )
Oxytocin makes people better at reading facial expressions (if they have problems with it normally)
(tags: oxytocin empathy emotion psychology )
Why rape should not be banished from fiction
(tags: writing rape fiction sf )
How con-runner politics work (and why they can take a while)
(tags: conventions fandom politics )
Hotel replaces Bibles with 'Fifty Shades of Grey' in rooms.
(tags: bible books porn funny )
Uruguay Considers Legalizing Marijuana to Stop Traffickers
(tags: marijuana drugs )
Beach volleyball abandoned after audience hears about the internet
(tags: internet nudity sport funny Olympics viaJohnSmith )
a black momma with a white baby writes an open letter to louis c.k.
(tags: usa society race children louisck )
On the difference between neoliberalism and libertarianism
(tags: society libertarianism neoliberalism )
When God wants you to play dress-up
(tags: comic funny clothing religion )
Who were the nine Olympic flagbearers?
(tags: humanrights Olympics )
Why does Japan still use the fax so much?
(tags: fax japan technology culture )