Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-29-2009

[andrewducker]

• Scientists create walking slime
  Doooooome!
  (tags: chemistry science technology TheFuture)
• moot wins, Time Inc. loses
  How 4chan stuffed the ballot box and broke recaptcha...
  (tags: hacking security internet time 4chan funny)
• Anything less than perfect is failure
  Why then do we constantly heap the condemnation of "failure" on any relationship that ends prior to the death of either party or dissolves before the couple get married?
  (tags: relationships)
• Genes have key role in autism
  Scientists study 10,000 people and find that one gene variant is present in 65% of them.
  (tags: genetics autism brains)
• Time and Space Tradoffs in Version Control Storage
  Fascinating if you're interested in the best way to store lots of different versions of the same file.
  (tags: technology versioncontrol storage)
• Brain trauma causes nationality switch
  In 2004 a Bristol woman woke up speaking French and thinking she was living in Paris. She was subsequently diagnosed with Susac's syndrome. But as she explained to the Daily Mail last year, "It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying."
  (tags: brains)
• Abstinence education actually a smokescreen for encouraging rape
  (tags: rape education abstinence)

Comments

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

I like this finding as well:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/vinyl_flooring.php
Of course, both could be true. The environment often actuates genetic predispositions.

[andrewducker]

Had that link a couple of weeks back. Even the scientists behind it say that it shouldn't be taken as proof at this point. Interesting pointer though.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Abstinence education actually a smokescreen for encouraging rape

I quirked an eyebrow at your link text. The actual content of that book is unacceptable and easy enough to argue against without any need to invoke a strawman of it ("You wrote this on purpose to help boys learn how to rape!").

[andrewducker]

Meh - couldn't be bothered writing something more accurate, and I like the Daily Mail style headline. I grab lots of these while on lunch, or waiting for compiles to run, so they aren't going to be paragons of journalistic integrity.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Heh, np. I've got a whole "we've got to be better than them" thing going - I lose my right to bitch about headlines which misrepresent issues in a such a way that they attack feminism, if I don't also bitch about the ones which misrepresent them like this. ;)

[andrewducker]

Oh, I'm fine with you pointing out my hypocrisy. You may even have an effect in the long term :->

[meihua.livejournal.com]

In the long term, I may even post a comment on your blog which isn't related to anti-prejudice activism. :D

[andrewducker]

It does happen occasionally - usually with cute things!

And I do appreciate your comments, so don't feel you have to stop.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

When they get the walking slime to talk, it will say that date rape is what happens when a girl is slutty enough to be alone with a boy.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Scientists create walking slime

Old news. Cecil Parkinson and Kenneth Baker both made it as far as the Cabinet back in the 1980s.