xkcd and bunny have run cartoons over the last couple of days about Lego.
Now lego is awesome. But the idea as Lego as a type of Shrodinger's cat mixed with quantum theory is a cool one. Lego can be anything, it's only limited by your imagination!
My favourite of all is this Bunny, a nice reference to the 'Keep calm and carry on' posters from the war era.
Other relevant comics:
xkcd
Bunny
11 November 2009
Blair and the Lisbon Treaty and the EU
This story was from a little while ago, but it's still knocking around. About the possibility of Tony Blair becoming EU president.
I don't know enough of what Blair's policies are likely to be if he becomes president. I am possibly making a large assumption in assuming that the candidates will have any real policies, since EU policies tend to end up fitting the lowest common denominator so nothing very progressive is ever achieved. Also we the little people are not going to get a say in who gets in anyway. I don't like Blair personally and I never will.
Maybe this is a big part of the problem the EU faces in the UK. I'm a declared pro-European and I remain unsure what the Lisbon Treaty involves other than the creation of the role of President. Bad on you British media! Give me some information so I can make an form an informed opinion!
I believe the EU is a very positive thing on the whole. It's still in the living memories of some people when the continent was at war with eachother; I believe that this will never happen again because the EU has made us a stronger unit. The concept that I could go and work anywhere in Europe I want without needing a visa is also awesome. Since I work with a lot of international students who have to jump through hoops to get a visa to go to a conference on mainland Europe, (nevermind working!), I'm guilty of taking a lot of the privileges that come with EU citizenship for granted.
I feel that a lot of the Euro-sceptics are deluded. We're only a small country and we're enjoying the glories of our past which gives us a disproportionately loud voice in the international community. This influence will become less and less as time goes on. We are no longer the British Empire and we need to move forward and become part of something else. Europe is the way forward, eventually the dinosaurs will realise this.
I don't know enough of what Blair's policies are likely to be if he becomes president. I am possibly making a large assumption in assuming that the candidates will have any real policies, since EU policies tend to end up fitting the lowest common denominator so nothing very progressive is ever achieved. Also we the little people are not going to get a say in who gets in anyway. I don't like Blair personally and I never will.
Maybe this is a big part of the problem the EU faces in the UK. I'm a declared pro-European and I remain unsure what the Lisbon Treaty involves other than the creation of the role of President. Bad on you British media! Give me some information so I can make an form an informed opinion!
I believe the EU is a very positive thing on the whole. It's still in the living memories of some people when the continent was at war with eachother; I believe that this will never happen again because the EU has made us a stronger unit. The concept that I could go and work anywhere in Europe I want without needing a visa is also awesome. Since I work with a lot of international students who have to jump through hoops to get a visa to go to a conference on mainland Europe, (nevermind working!), I'm guilty of taking a lot of the privileges that come with EU citizenship for granted.
I feel that a lot of the Euro-sceptics are deluded. We're only a small country and we're enjoying the glories of our past which gives us a disproportionately loud voice in the international community. This influence will become less and less as time goes on. We are no longer the British Empire and we need to move forward and become part of something else. Europe is the way forward, eventually the dinosaurs will realise this.
5 November 2009
Strictly and the reality of phone-in tv
Okay so last week (not for the first time in Strictly history) we had two of the better dancers in the dance off. Yes it's a shame that one of them has to go when they're good to watch but this is the nature of tv of the noughties when phone votes control the direction of shows.
What hacks me off is the judges have a whinge about who's in the dance off and how it's a 'travesty'. No it's not. It's the general public and this is what happens when you let us grubby little people have our say in what happens. The judges would probably love it if it was down to them only, but then it would be in no way as entertaining. Results more shocking than this have happened before we had the dance off format introduced to try and give the judges a bit more power.
I want Jade and Ian to win, but it's pretty unusual when the people I want to win actually do. I don't think they'll win it because they're not so popular as all the soap 'stars' but I'm not really complaining, I accept this is how the show works and it's more of an entertainment show than an actual dance contest, regardless of what the judges would like to think!
Thankfully with the demise of Big Brother in the near future, we've reached the peak of the reality/phone in tv show craze of the last decade. I don't remember being angry or upset that I didn't get a say in what happened in tv shows of my youth. I could also do without the life story of some reality show contestants; this is why I can't stand to watch X-factor.
While viewer interaction can really add to some shows I think it's become too prolific and like charity fatigue, now we risk phone-in tv fatigue where we no longer care about the contestants.
What hacks me off is the judges have a whinge about who's in the dance off and how it's a 'travesty'. No it's not. It's the general public and this is what happens when you let us grubby little people have our say in what happens. The judges would probably love it if it was down to them only, but then it would be in no way as entertaining. Results more shocking than this have happened before we had the dance off format introduced to try and give the judges a bit more power.
I want Jade and Ian to win, but it's pretty unusual when the people I want to win actually do. I don't think they'll win it because they're not so popular as all the soap 'stars' but I'm not really complaining, I accept this is how the show works and it's more of an entertainment show than an actual dance contest, regardless of what the judges would like to think!
Thankfully with the demise of Big Brother in the near future, we've reached the peak of the reality/phone in tv show craze of the last decade. I don't remember being angry or upset that I didn't get a say in what happened in tv shows of my youth. I could also do without the life story of some reality show contestants; this is why I can't stand to watch X-factor.
While viewer interaction can really add to some shows I think it's become too prolific and like charity fatigue, now we risk phone-in tv fatigue where we no longer care about the contestants.
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