Interesting Links for 14-03-2013

[andrewducker]

• The Dark Knight Rises was the best selling movie of 2012. Still beaten by Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Fifa 13.
  (tags: music games uk movies media )
• Rape investigations are undermined by the false belief that false accusations are rife.
  (tags: police rape )
• I had no idea there was such a charge as "Recklessly producing household electricity"
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Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Okay probably still being dense, but I don't see a loop in that map, nor do I see anything being removed from 'the north side of Princes street', though to me, that means the pavement.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's more that buses will only go one way on Princes Street, and one way on George Street, which isn't really a loop.

And I assume that the North Side of Princes Street means the north side of the road, not the pavement bit.

[momentsmusicaux]

I assumed that too.

But it's a weird thing to say -- surely eastbound makes more sense.

And there's no dotted line on the map for Princes St.

And if they remove eastbound traffic from Princes St, doesn't that mean the entire road layout that they've set up for the trams is totally wrong??!?

And lastly, would make more sense for Princes St to be eastbound only, so the bus stops are on the same side as the shops.

[andrewducker]

Not if you want to expand the pavement, so that you can have cafes.

The two bottom storeys of Princes Street are zoned for retail but we want to have more mixed use, with restaurants and cafes. At the moment, it’s a shopping option and we have got to make it a place for people to go where it has another dimension, not just for shopping.

We want to make Princes Street similar to George Street in terms of mixed use. You can see at six and seven o’clock at night George Street can be mobbed but Princes Street is all but deserted.

[del_c]

I think two of those links should have headlines more similar than they are. It should either be "If we can't afford for people to be aging, what's the plan?" or "Government woefully underprepared to deal with Britain's disabled population".

[brixtonbrood]

The BBC's coverage of the CPS report was "False reports of rape are devastating, says head of CPS"

After several complaints they amended "investigations discovered how common false accusations are", which is ambiguous at best, to "discovered how unusual false accusations are", but they stood by their reporting - it appears that Newsbeat was already doing a piece on "OMG, false reports of rape are so awful" so they decided to tag a feeble and misleading reference to the CPS report onto that story, rather than covering it in its own right. Their reply to EVAW's strongly worded protest included the convincing defence that Ellie from Dorking, commentating on their website, had said "false accusations are disgusting".

Caveat - I'm doing this on my phone from memory so the quotes are only approximate.

[steer]

Actually the BBC managed to say of the same report both "False reports of rape are devastating"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21016808
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21769474
and
Police 'over-cautious' on alleged rapes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21767294

Both of these things are contained in the report.

[skreidle]

I've often noticed that "being cognitively distracted by the phone" is far more of an issue than"holding phone to head"; I've missed highway exits and not noticed for miles, simply because I was on the phone.