Interesting Links for 16-01-2014

[andrewducker]

• Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?
  (tags: time astronomy history clock numbers )
• An envy-free cake-division protocol.
  (tags: cake )
• Why novellists shouldn't chase the Next Big Thing
  (tags: writing publishing )
• Ampere to get rational redefinition
  (tags: physics electricity )
• How

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Angel and Angelus are listed as two different characters?

What bullshit is that?

[andrewducker]

Clearly they recognised that Angelus is a massively better character than Angel, to the point where we'd scream "Yay, Angelus!" whenever he got a chance to appear!

[bart_calendar]

Fair point.

I hated Angel as a character.

[andrewducker]

Yeah.

We rewatched Angel recently, and the article's complaints about him are spot on. They didn't want him to change and grow, so every season you'd have Brooding Angel for 90% of it, and then at the end he'd have a realisation that he didn't have to be such a dick, and everything would be great!

And then, at the start of the next season he'd revert back to Brooding Angel, for no good reason, who was just a massive pain in the neck to watch. If they hadn't had great supporting characters, we never would have watched all of it.

[bart_calendar]

I honestly couldn't do the Angel television series because Buffy made me hate him far, far too much.