Interesting Links for 15-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• How Barnet Council tried to criminalise all bloggers
  (tags: blogging censorship politics uk )
• Amazon Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
  (tags: amazon technology innovation jeffbezos )
• Stalking - in person or online - to be made an offence.
  (tags: crime law uk )
• Alan Turing, Alan Garner, Walt Disney and The Wicked Witch
  (tags: AlanTuring

Comments

[steer]

You'd really like to replace spiders by bears in real life? So, that, for example, "there are 100 bears in the average meter square of woodland" or "the average person accidentally swallows one bear during their sleep every year"(*).

I think this would make life dangerous.

(*) Warning -- not actually true of spiders.

I think Jimmy has been encased in concrete to put him permanently beyond use by dissident republicans.

[andrewducker]

They would, of course, be the same size as the respective spiders they replaced.

And thus terribly, terribly cute.

[steer]

That would be much safer. Still, it would be sad to open your honey jar and find 10 or 20 tiny copies of winnie the pooh drowned in there.

[andrewducker]

I think that's the saddest imagery I've encountered all day.

[nmg]

"there are 100 bears in the average meter square of woodland" [...] I think this would make life dangerous.

For the bears, certainly.

(so...assuming a spherical bear, should one try HCP or FCC?)

[steer]

Heh... sometimes mathematics can be too applied you know. I'll leave that packing problem for braver souls.

[theweaselking]

What's really awesome is that there's a second mod to replace all the bears with crabs.

Y'know, in case the bears are now creeping you out.

It requires the first mod.