Interesting Links for 12-09-2012

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• “Deckard is not a bloody replicant!” Blade Runner 1982 – a defence – Best For Film
  'Mitch Benn heroically decided to set the record straight and, over the course of the longest article we have ever published, now presents his defence of the much-maligned 1982 cut of Ridley Scott's masterpiece Blade Runner'
  (tags: misleading origami unicorns revisionism culture film Mitch Benn Apologies; I have forgotten who I got this link from posttofacebook amusing interesting )
• Cameron Apologises To Hillsborough Families
  'An orchestrated police campaign to wrongly blame Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster is laid bare in an official report.'
  (tags: lies image Westminster news interesting posttofacebook )
• 100 Things You Didn't Know About Lord of the Rings | Empire | www.empireonline.com
  My favourite? 'The Black Gate is shown as two gates because of a typo in the script given to the art department.'
  (tags: culture film fiction fantasy Lord of the Rings geeky awesome interesting )
• Injured bald eagle gets new 3-D printed beak | Grist
  'designed a nylon polymer beak that would perfectly replace Beauty’s lost upper mandible.'
  (tags: living in the future posttofacebook clever technology awesome 3D printing )
• Unofficial Transcripts: mySociety is seeking councillors, council officers, local activists and hyperlocal bloggers interested in Hansards at the local level
  An attempt to get council meetings transcripted in a similar way to how parliament is.
  (tags: UK sousveilance Freedom of Information information politics interesting )

Comments

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the 1st link, it was an interesting and entertaining read :) I really must watch a non-hacked about version of the film, I've only seen the one with the infamous unicorn in it and the idea that that made Deckard a replicant never made much sense to me, especially when I read the book afterwards!

Our high school geography teacher used to recommend watching it for its portrayal of urban decay. Of course as teenagers, we were all convinced that was an excuse for oggling Pris...

[return2zero.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting the 100 things about LOTR. I hadn't seen those facts before! /nerd