You know, I thought that might happen.
Seeming, after the Woolwich Attacks on Wednesday, the
Daily Mail — and a few others, I’d imagine — are calling for Google and other search engines to block various extremist sites.
I think they’re getting the wrong end of the stick.
At least, in regards to how easy that is. Correct me if I’ve got it wrong, but I believe such blocks are usually done at the
ISP level.
And even then, the example of torrent sites like Kick Ass Torrents and Pirate Bay — which have all used proxies since being blocked in the UK — tells us one thing.
Given enough time, such blocks are circumventable. Extremist sites are not going away.
The only way to stop them … ? Is to dismantle the internet. I can see that going down like a lead balloon.
Let’s get moving on …
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Along with quietly admitting she almost forgetting it was Towel Day, yesterday — and to not being sure whether she’d seen Torchwood: Children of Earth — she also bagged five out of five.
Let’s see how she — and you — do with today’s Dracula questions, shall we?
Q1) 26th May saw the original publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: in which year of the 1890s?
Q2) Which famous actor was Stoker the manager for … ?
Q3) What’s the name of the solicitor who first meets Dracula, in the early stages of the novel … ?
Q4) Who plays Dracula in the 1958 Hammer version of the novel … ?
Q5) In Dracula, the Count arrives in England, in which English town … ?
Q6) And finally … What’s the name of the real-world figure that Stoker named his villain after … ?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 25th May, 2013, is Towel Day, honouring the work of the late Douglas Adams. Which radio series did he write … ?
A1) The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to The Galaxy.
Q2) The radio series famously features a fiction travel guide: what to words are on its cover … ?
A2) Don’t Panic.
Q3) Which character in the series has two heads … ?
A3) Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Q4) More to the point, which character claims to have a ‘… brain the size of a planet’ … ?
A4) Marvin the Paranoid Android.
Q5) Finally … Who, in 2009, released the sixth book in the series, And Another Thing … ?
A5) Eoin Colfer, of Artemis Fowl fame.
I’ll leave you with this well known line from Stoker’s best known villain …
“Listen to them — children of the night. What music they make.”
Dracula.
And one of Bauhaus’ more cheerfully pop tunes …
Have a good day … !
* It’s on the
UK iTunes store, Debbi, I know that much, and has been for a while: whether you can pick it up in the US is another question, Either way, I think it’s possibly one of the most watchable things to be associated with
Dr Who†. And possibly the most hideously beautiful thing to be shown on British TV, this century …
† I always point people at
Genesis Of The Daleks, if folk ask me for the name of a classic
Dr Who story to watch.
Torchwood: Children of Earth is, I believe, the
Torchwood equivalent.
