Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Tag: stupid stupid things
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The UK is having a referendum soon on whether to change their voting system, from First Past the Post (FPTP) to Alternative Vote (AV). Under the latter system, you get to give some kind of preference statement, so if you are e.g. faced with a choice of Stalin, Hitler or George W. Bush but Bush…
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Brian Murphy at The Silver Key has been running something of a series of posts on realism in fantasy, and his mild objections to it. I have been commenting occasionally in mild support of this trend, because I think that the fantasy genre is very conservative and needs to have its perspective broadened and conventions…
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This movie was, frankly, pretty stupid, though quite fun. It’s by Cristopher Nolan who made The Prestige so it should be good, but it was too self-consciously complex, if I bothered to trace the story through all its complex layers I’m pretty sure it would have huge internal holes in it, and most annoyingly the…
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Recent revelations in the UK have shown that the UK government’s intended efficiency savings aren’t working (shock!) and it faces a huge funding shortfall. This is hardly unexpected, and probably the first of a range of such reports that are going to start filtering around Whitehall soon, but it has spawned a disappointing tirade from…
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Continuing this week’s zombie theme, Grey has raised in comments to my last post the possibility that our modern specialization and lack of basic survival skills – farming, hunting, that sort of thing – would be a major problem in surviving the zombie apocalypse. The obvious implication of this is that your average media studies…
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(This post written slightly drunk). So the UK Government has released data on its accounts, for anyone who likes it to analyze to encourage transparency. This is an excellent idea. Unfortunately, they released it to the Guardian, who claim (rather grandiosely) that they are one of a select group of “data handling specialists” who were…
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In a previous post I noted some reasons (that I hope are largely practical rather than ideological) why the Tory reforms of the NHS won’t work, based on my superficial understanding of them. Yesterday I discovered that the Tories have introduced a second – and in my opinion completely mad – reform of the NHS…
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About a month ago, our little foundling Arashi chan finally recovered from his severe car-related injuries, and I present to the world this picture as proof that his recovery has been spiritual as well as physical. He’s not so little anymore, and definitely not so immobile…
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