Badger Badger

Our team name has badgers in it, so I asked out of curiosity: "What's with the badgers?"
One team member tells me: "Looks up Badger badger badger on youtube. There's all these badgers that pop up and it's hilarious..."

Okay, I'm assuming this is it, but I still don't get it.

Badger Badger

Our team name has badgers in it, so I asked out of curiosity: "What's with the badgers?"
One team member tells me: "Looks up Badger badger badger on youtube. There's all these badgers that pop up and it's hilarious..."

Okay, I'm assuming this is it, but I still don't get it.

Recent Amazon deletions

Amazon in the Book Banning Business

I find this both interesting and worrying. While I don't personally have any interest in the books currently being deleted (incest erotica fiction), that would seem to be beside the point. Could this be one of the very real issues with the world of E-books? Amazon appear to have deleted the content not only as an item for sale, but deleted it also from the personal Kindle libraries of people who paid for access to the titles in question. They are not currently offering refunds, let alone a proper explanation.

Obviously here is another site that needs to seriously consider their content guidelines and spell them out appropriately, rather than simply deleting on "sole discretion, at any time". It seems like a path that could snowball into a much wider area of censorship.

I own a Kindle and I'm already fairly unimpressed with the library offered. But I'm also less than happy about the idea of someone being able to retrospectively censor content that I paid for and therefore own. I'll be watching how this progresses with some interest.

Recent Amazon deletions

Amazon in the Book Banning Business

I find this both interesting and worrying. While I don't personally have any interest in the books currently being deleted (incest erotica fiction), that would seem to be beside the point. Could this be one of the very real issues with the world of E-books? Amazon appear to have deleted the content not only as an item for sale, but deleted it also from the personal Kindle libraries of people who paid for access to the titles in question. They are not currently offering refunds, let alone a proper explanation.

Obviously here is another site that needs to seriously consider their content guidelines and spell them out appropriately, rather than simply deleting on "sole discretion, at any time". It seems like a path that could snowball into a much wider area of censorship.

I own a Kindle and I'm already fairly unimpressed with the library offered. But I'm also less than happy about the idea of someone being able to retrospectively censor content that I paid for and therefore own. I'll be watching how this progresses with some interest.

Hornblower fans?

I know my F-list contains Hornblower fans, so could one of you please put my befuddled brain to rights?

I'm currently watching To the Ends of the Earth, a mini-series starring Benedict Cumberbatch which was adapted from a series of novels by William Golding.

Now in this last bit I'm watching, one of the officers fixes the mainsail mast thingy (excuse my lack of seafaring terms) using hot iron and they aren't sure whether the ship will burn if it doesn't work.

Thing is, either the exact same thing happens in Hornblower or I've seen at least this part of the mini-series before. So did that happen in Hornblower too?

Hornblower fans?

I know my F-list contains Hornblower fans, so could one of you please put my befuddled brain to rights?

I'm currently watching To the Ends of the Earth, a mini-series starring Benedict Cumberbatch which was adapted from a series of novels by William Golding.

Now in this last bit I'm watching, one of the officers fixes the mainsail mast thingy (excuse my lack of seafaring terms) using hot iron and they aren't sure whether the ship will burn if it doesn't work.

Thing is, either the exact same thing happens in Hornblower or I've seen at least this part of the mini-series before. So did that happen in Hornblower too?