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?

[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.