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  • An interview with the man who managed $200Bn of US debt to China. Nice to see the Chinese now make more sense on capitalism than the US do :->
  • In the face of love's potential destructive fury, you're left with three options. 1) Pull down the emotional shutters and try to avoid it. 2) Find someone you admire or like, rather than love, and try to make do, rendering both of you miserable in the process. Or 3) Throw caution to the wind and gingerly place your fragile, beating heart in the hands of another human being and hope they don't crush it in their fist for giggles. On paper, the first option seems like the only sensible choice.
  • For more than eight years, a team at Cambridge University's autism research centre has been observing and testing the development of a group of 235 children whose mothers had an amniocentesis during pregnancy. The procedure involves drawing off fluid surrounding the baby in the womb using a fine needle and is offered by hospitals to pregnant women over 35 or 37 to test for Down's syndrome. The age and circumstances of the women have been taken into account in the research. Dr Bonnie Auyeung, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues, who publish their findings today, say they have consistently found a link between higher testosterone levels in the womb and autistic traits, such as a lack of sociability and verbal skills, in the children.
  • What happened the day someone at Microsoft decided to send an email to 25,000 people, and then people hit reply-all...

Date: 2009-01-12 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com
That Microsoft story is brilliant!

And that's why I never "Reply All" without thinking!!!

Date: 2009-01-12 04:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] interactiveleaf.livejournal.com
At the American State Department, they punish you for that sort of thing.

*chuckle*

Date: 2009-01-12 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com
Erk, email nightmare! and who thought that was a good domain name?

Date: 2009-01-12 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makyo.livejournal.com
I read the Charlie Brooker article (which was amusing, as usual) and noticed the following advert halfway down the page:



"We present Tony Hancock, Sidney James and Great Cthulhu in: H.... P Lovecraft's half hour..."

Date: 2009-01-12 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairmen.livejournal.com
It's seeming increasingly that testosterone is Just Bad For You...

Date: 2009-01-12 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com
I remember Bedlam DL3, vaguely. It happened while I was still there. I wasn't on DL3, but it affected email company wide. It was pretty amusing.

Date: 2009-01-12 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] henriksdal.livejournal.com
Oh that Charlie Brooker article is just perfect. I think he and I are currently on the same plane.

er, plain?

No, it's plane, isn't it.

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