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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 15-11-2011

Nov 15, 2011 11:00

How Barnet Council tried to criminalise all bloggers
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Amazon Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
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Stalking - in person or online - to be made an offence.
(tags: crime law uk )
Alan Turing, Alan Garner, Walt Disney and The Wicked Witch
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Comments 18

steer November 15 2011, 11:10:28 UTC

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 November 15 2011, 11:13:22 UTC

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

And thus terribly, terribly cute.

steer November 15 2011, 11:14:57 UTC

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 November 15 2011, 11:16:23 UTC

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

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momentsmusicaux November 15 2011, 11:10:28 UTC

I'm rather the opposite to you about the Doctor Who film -- I can only imagine it'll be dreadful.

Then again, I am still in shock from the sheer bloody awfulness of Tintin.

a_pawson November 15 2011, 12:08:00 UTC

Phrases like "reboot", "radical transformation" and "bigger arena" fill me with dread.

philmophlegm November 15 2011, 12:19:11 UTC

Agreed. I'm betting it will be as bad as the last two Doctor Who films that had their "own continuity".

alitheapipkin November 15 2011, 13:02:34 UTC

Also, his idea that filming Harry Potter means he is in touch with 'the British Sensibility'...

Found poetry supergee November 15 2011, 11:50:17 UTC

reading toilet science

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pigwotflies November 15 2011, 14:50:28 UTC

Rob tends to take his laptop into the bathroom. This grosses me out hugely. I got very cross when he took mine instead.

alitheapipkin November 15 2011, 12:53:24 UTC

Replacing spiders with bears would have been very handy when I had to give up playing Thief Gold on the 2nd adventure because the spiders in the mine freaked me out too much.

I would read the last article and rant about climate change deniers but I'm not currently in a foul mood and would like to stay that way. I think my blood pressure will thank me.