Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-3-2009

[andrewducker]

• The bar for success in the technology industry is too low
  They want success to mean bringing in more money than you spend. Can't see _that_ catching on.
  (tags: business technology economy)
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions
  (tags: wikipedia death history science funny inventions)
• We are all mutants
  100-200 mutations per generation!
  (tags: genetics biology)
• Brain Difference In Psychopaths Identified
  (tags: brain psychology behavior biology mri neuroscience)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey - a school performance
  So awfully bad that it's hilarious.
  (tags: video 2001 music)
• Beautiful Reading via Flex 4
  Very nice idea - I'd like to see it taken a lot further. It really does make long chunks of text more readable.
  (tags: flash text reading)
• Chris Weston: By day, a mild mannered comic strip artist...
  Comic Artist witnesses burglary, puts powers to use for the forces of GOOD! (True story, well worth a quick read)
  (tags: funny comics crime)
• Body Survey 2008: The Results
  In which it turns out that men actually think women should be larger than women do. Warning - nakedness on the page.
  (tags: health women body fashion size)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Don't let Julie see that Body Survey page, she'll be ranting about the godawful wording of some of the questions for ages (not to mention the lack of spell-checking, grammar or even any sort of sense in some places :)

15. which celebrity has the best?
32% said face
15% said Breasts
1% said arms
...

17. What surgery would you have (for those who said yes) ?
41% chose liposuction
5% chose gastic band
34% said breast enlargement
20% chose breast enlargement

WTF?

[broin.livejournal.com]

Did you see 'Giselle Bunchanan' too? Who's she?

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

highest paid model in the world? Brazilian.

I mean, she's from Brazil.

[broin.livejournal.com]

No she isn't. :)

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

:D

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Oh there are loads throughout the entire thing. I just picked the two examples that stood out, never mind all the missing apostrophes and these:

"Do you knoe..."
"Which of these female celebrities have the bes body?" (2-for-1 there!)
"In a bid to lose weight, have you ever ... made yourslef sick ..."

*despairs for the state of the language and journalistic quality-control*

edited to fix my own grammar. Oops! :)

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

YEP! Already had internal rant.

Plus, do men really know what dress sizes are anyway?! I know some of my exes have gotten it very very wrong.

There is a forum somewhere on LJ, I think its called everydaybodies (not sure) so there is a collection of what normal people look like, because even the models don't look their sizes (imo). The size 16 could pass for a 12. BAH!

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Given that it seems women can change two dress sizes by simply walking into the store next door and finding something cut in a different way, it's all kinda irrelevant anyway :)

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

2001: Pure genius! You owe me a new keyboard now that this one's covered in spluttered tea.

Where did they get the strangled elephant from, I wonder?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

You can spin that body survey many ways.

e.g. The average wife/girlfriend is a smaller size than the average women, and the average husband/boyfriend is on balance more likely to want them to lose weight than gain weight. As the average woman wants to be a smaller size than the average man is willing to settle for, we can conclude that men are pressuring women to lose weight, and that women are responding to that pressure.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Wow. That school performance was AWESOME.