- All (hopefully) of the bad arguments about rape on Game of Thrones debunked
I don't agree with this article about the rape scene in last week's game of Thrones. I think it was another mis-step from a show with a less-than-stellar track record. I think that, given the departure from what I understand the storyline in the books is, there were alternatives open to them, that they perhaps should have explored. But that said: there are some solid arguments in here, that at least make the case that there *is* another point of view, that says there was a case for having tha…
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Bookmarks for March 11, 2014
- The Case For Columbo
I now wish to watch more Columbo. I've seen the odd episode before, but I've never really had a go at the full canon, as it were.
Bookmarks for January 25, 2011
- 3-D TV? How about holographic TV?
Wow. Only 15fps, and currently requires IR kit to watch, but against that – this is done with off the shelf consumer goods and was made in a matter of weeks. Are you happy with your future now? For consideration: add a second kinect/mocap device and a bit more coding, and you could have interactive 3D.
Bookmarks for August 12, 2010
- What Happened to Yahoo
Yahoo was somewhere that, ten years ago, I would have love to have worked. I would have loved to have worked at some of the companies they've since bought. But I wouldn't have taken a job there any time in the last six years or so – I'm sure it would have been, y'know, fine, but it wouldn't have been what I really wanted in working for a internet company. This article does a pretty good job of explaining why.
- Words on Devour.com
Watch this. It will be the best three minutes you spend all day.
- Smart Swarm: popular science book on emergence meets business-advice book – Boing Boing
Reminder to self to pick this book up.
- YouTube – Nathan Barley
The complete Nathan Barley on the YouTubes. I imagine that some of you might like this.
Bookmarks for December 4, 2009
- Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
I'm in two minds about whether to use them or not. But it's good that there's a DNS provider I can fall back on if my ISP's DNS goes tits up that isn't sodding OpenDNS.
- Don't give DVD box sets as gifts – Slate Magazine
Heh. I have an absolute *stack* of unwatched TV, and yes, it is daunting, to the point that basically, I'd rather rewatch an odd episode here and there of something I've already watched, than crack open the start of five seasons worth of something else. Starting a totally new show feels like a serious time commitment, whilst rewatching something old is a way to pass a spare 40 minutes. And mostly all I have is the odd spare hour here and there that needs filling up.
Bookmarks for July 20, 2009
- Difford's guide
The best cocktail guide in the world is now available in searchable on-line form. Result!
- Quote For The Day
"Memory, being a phenomenon of emotion and magic, accommodates only those facts that suit it…"
- Amazon's Orwellian deletion of Kindle books – Boing Boing
And this, right here, is why I will not buy a kindle, or purchase ebooks in a DRMed format. I would be incandescent if something like that happened to music I own, but the thought of it happening to a *book* I owned would give me an aneurysm. I mean, it's a *book*.
- BBC Confirm Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss Sherlock Holmes Drama | Bleeding Cool Comic News & Rumors
I await this with some interest. The words "dynamic superhero" to describe Holmes aren't totally out of keeping with the character, assuming it's handled right, and I loved Moffat's Jekyll, and well, it's Sherlock fucking Holmes.
- E-merl.com – Four Derangements
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey was my collaborator on Rust, the Eagle award nominated webcomic I wrote some time around 2000. Rust was never finished, and he has since gone on to much bigger and better things, which is fitting, because he possesses far more talent and discipline than I do. He remains one of the only people I know with an genuine interest in webcomics as *web* comics, works that truly use the full toolset afforded by the possibilities of the web, instead of just treating the web as the distribution medium for a print comic – his webcomics are genuine hyperfictions that could not exist offline. He has produced a new webcomic here, and it is as good as ever. Go. Look. Learn.
- Charlie's Diary: What have the Romans done for us …?
I know some people who are ambivalent about the space program. This concerns me slightly, as they give the outward signs of being normal human beings, and then they indicate that their brains are a bit strange by holding views like that. Well, here is a link explaining why basically, without the space program, we'd be living in a very different world.