Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-21-2009

[andrewducker]

• BBC NEWS | Education | UK ranked low on youth wellbeing
  A table of young people's wellbeing in 29 European states - has ranked Britain 24th. Good God we suck.
  (tags: children UK)
• Quiet Sun baffling astronomers
  Aieeee! We're all doomed!
  (tags: solar sun)
• The Black Sunday Hack
  One of the most impressive bits of computer trickery I've seen
  (tags: security programming history hacking)
• Adobe Flash secures set-top deal
  I hope you all have FlashBlock installed on your TVs :->
  (tags: flash TV)
• The great shift in global power just hit high gear, sparked by a financial crash
  The onset of the global financial crisis provides the context for the decline of American economic power and illustrates the extent to which it has become dependent on China for the continuation of its global financial hegemony.
  
  Such periods of transition are profoundly unstable, deeply uncertain and fraught with danger. The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.
  (tags: china currency)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I'm just waiting for the Daily Wail-esque "The Sun Is Dying! New Ice-Age Forecast!" headlines in the tabloids and all the bad science around global warming / cooling that will follow it :)