Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-1-2009

[andrewducker]

• Vegetarians avoid more cancers
  Overall, their results suggested that while in the general population about 33 people in 100 will develop cancer during their lifetime, for those who do not eat meat that risk is reduced to about 29 in 100.
  (tags: health cancer diet vegetarian)
• Ugly fruit back on sale in EU
  Nom!
  (tags: eu food law politics)
• Debate over government-funded police protection heats u
  "Do we want long wait times when we call for the police, like people in countries with socialized police forces?" Sen. Russell Flack, R-Ga., asked during a floor debate yesterday. "Under our system, we can choose our own police officers, as long as we pay for protection out of our own pockets. Do we want some government bureaucrat choosing the police for us?"
  (tags: politics usa funny healthcare)
• Time for your quarter-life crisis
  I think I'm up to Crisis 17.
  (tags: sociology psychology culture life work society anomie)
• A very fun bit of C++
  I love that this is actually valid code.
  (tags: programming c++ funny geek)
• Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama
  Retro computing battles for teh win!
  (tags: TV computers retro technology)
• Vitamin D and Fish Oil - massive trials to take place
  20,000 people to be brought into five-year double-blind test.
  (tags: science medicine biology fish vitaminD)
• Daily sex best for good sperm
  Just in case you were wondering.
  (tags: sex sperm fertility)
• Coming out atheist vs. coming out gay
  Apparently many families found their children coming out as atheist harder than their children coming out as gay. In the USA, of course.
  (tags: usa religion atheism homosexuality culture)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

That quarter-life crisis article is scarily close to my life at various points over the last dozen years or so - and I thought it was just me screwing it up! :)

[andrewducker]

Naah, pretty much everyone goes through this stuff, I think.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

http://www.cracked.com/article_17206_10-most-perverted-old-school-video-games.html

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Humorous veg!!!! Bring it on....

[andrewducker]

Humorous veg that reduces cancer!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

GEEK POINTS FOR SARAH: I am related to Sir Clive Sinclair, my father's cousin's daughter married his son, Bart.

[andrewducker]

Yay for Sarah!

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Andy, this blog post made me think of you.

http://francescaelston.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/people-are-not-rational/

[heron61.livejournal.com]

From the article, I'm entirely unclear if the reduced cancer risk comes from being vegetarian or from the fact that many (perhaps most) people who are vegetarian eat a generally better diet, in terms of avoiding heavily processed foods and getting adequate over-all nutrition.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Unlike in countries where police officers are on a public payroll and have no incentive to maximize shootings, beatings and arrests, American police mercenaries get reimbursed by tax-favored crime insurance plans every time they chase or apprehend a suspect. Many analysts argue that this perverse incentive structure accounts for what is called "overbeatment" -- the high number of Americans who get the living daylights beaten out of them on the streets by soldiers of fortune.

I read about half way through the police nationalization argument before saying "aha". I knew in theory american police forces weren't privatised, but all those arguments just sounded so plausible for someone to say. I think if he'd avoided saying "warlords" he might have passed under the radar entirely... :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

ROFL at the C++ article. That's one of the very very few pieces of code I've actually laughed out loud at :)