Interesting Links for 15-01-2015

[andrewducker]

• Plans for replacement Meadowbank stadium
  (tags: sports Edinburgh )
• Virtual debates about homelessness in Sim City hold up a mirror to real life
  (tags: simcity homelessness games society )
• Celebrity culture turns out to be closely related to quantum physics
  (tags: quantum celebrity funny )
• Animated David Bowie Is Awesome
  (tags: art DavidBowie

Comments

[apostle_of_eris]

a 600-page, US$220, two-volume book on homelessness in the video game Sim City

what?

[andrewducker]

Buy them for your friends!

[nancylebov]

Damn, now I want an interview with the people who wrote the text for the relationships in Dragon Age Inquisition.

[andrewducker]

If you find one...

[pennski]

I was delighted by the lucky fish story. I hope the research does substantiate it.

[andrewducker]

Me too!

[resonant]

Oh yes!

And think of other micronutrients we could provide! Not volitile ones like iodine, sadly, but zinc, manganese, magnesium, molybdenum, and so on. A small arc furnace and sandcasting bed in someone's backyard could supply a small nation with them.

[agoodwinsmith]

And you know what? Now I want a lucky fish. :)

[ipslore]

Eh, I find the 'homeless Sims' thing to be a bit disingenuous. You mean that people say things which sound like they're about other things after you deliberately strip them of context? What a surprise!