Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-28-2009

[andrewducker]

• Hybrid fusion-fission reactors to run on nuclear 'sludge'
  Nice idea. I wonder if it will ever happen
  (tags: science energy nuclear tech)
• Hotties and Notties - the academic scale
  Comparing the perceived sexiness of different kinds of academics. With SCIENCE!
  (tags: statistics education beauty academia)
• Taming Perfectionism
  (tags: art philosophy programming inspiration creativity zen wabi-sabi perfectionism)
• Allow Multiple Remote Desktop Connections on Vista
  I would have killed to have this a few years ago.
  (tags: vista rdp remotedesktop)
• Is recycling working?
  Kinda, and apparently it's getting better
  (tags: environment landfill recycling)
• Blogger who didn't delete comment cannot sue over it, says High Court
  By leaving the comment for two years he counts as having published them - and thus cannot sue the original commenter. Nice.
  (tags: law blogs)
• What Life Asks of Us
  On the virtues of institutional thinking. Not something I'm taking wholesale, but some interesting thoughts there. I suspect the tension between institutional and individual ways of thought is vitally important to society.
  (tags: society education)
• Anatomy of a Program in Memory
  Probably the best description I've ever seen of how programs use memory.
  (tags: computing windows programming linux memory)
• Under the Abbaya: Female Producers in Saudi Arabia
  "Did you have to wear the black thing?"
  (tags: society TV clothing islam SaudiArabia)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Ah, but the academic rating missed out us Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celts. We are, of course, all extremely hot.

[andrewducker]

Of course :->

[ophelia-complex.livejournal.com]

YES!!! Chem and Eng at the bottom. We rulz.

[giantbedsprings.livejournal.com]

Link for you (and all geeks):

http://www.larissameek.com/2009/01/12/26-cakes-perfect-for-geeks/