Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Good April Fool’s Day feature:


Adam Smith actually was a satirist, and everything was just a big joke that went out of control…
I don’t know, should I laugh, should I weep…

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This is both really cool and deeply worrying… fits the timeline, though doesn’t it.
 

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Or this is El Reg’s joke for April Fool’s day.
I hate this timeline. Nothing seems too absurd anymore.

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Goats? So it’s a Pan-demic…

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Yeah, sounds like a gag to me. But as a consolation, a brief video on the F1 engines.

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Huawei to the

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Remakes are almost always inferior to the original.

Japanese airline ANA spins out telepresence-bot startup for virus-avoiding medicos and fearful tourists

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Wise move with the “almost”: The Man Who Knew Too Much springs to mind, for example.

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I prefer the original; in the remake Godzilla is a little sappy and Godzilla is completely feckless as her husband. However, I know I’m in the minority on that; Eric Godzilla once wrote a essay arguing that the original was a failure and the remake a masterpiece, and who am I to argue with the director of Godzilla at the Beach and Godzilla’s Knee?

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No disrespect to Jimmy Stewart, the lovable reactionary rascal, but the original The Man Who Knew Too Much has Peter Lorre as the Bad Guy, setting standards for decades to come.

Now, The Maltese Falcon - third try is the charm. And yes, that’s the Houston/Bogart version.

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And also this one…

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Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent ‘misleading data’ being shown to pilots

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Automatic for the People: Pandemic-fueled rush to robo-moderation will be disastrous – there must be oversight

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The Lockdown Edition:

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