Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-6-2009

[andrewducker]

• Google Dashboard - all the information they have on you in one handy place.
  (tags: google tools privacy)
• Society's addiction to Nitrogen
  (tags: agriculture environment farming sustainability)
• Video introduction to cognitive behavioural therapy
  (tags: video cbt psychology)
• The scams behind Farmville and other Facebook games
  (tags: facebook games scam advertising)
• 8% of Internet Users Account for 85% of all Ad Clicks
  We should thank them - they pay for the internet!
  (tags: advertising statistics research marketing internet business)
• How do you cope when trapped with child evangelists?!?
  (tags: religion EpicFail)
• Brazillian man appears at own funeral
  Braaaaaains!
  (tags: death brazil funny alcohol)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Makes me glad I never bothered with farmville! Faux rural lifestyle aspirations for urbanites, damn it! Having lived with the occasional smell of pigshit for several years I have no such illusions.
No, I'm sticking with Puzzle Pirates!

[andrewducker]

Faux piratical aspirations for landlubbers, damn it! After my three years as first mate of the Black Peter have no such illusions.

No, I'm sticking with Tower Defense!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Hah! After my many years in a castle!
And: damn you. Just wasted ten minutes on that!
There's a desktop version of that game that's good but thankfully not open-ended: after five levels you beat the damn thing!

The Black Peter? Isn't that what they used to call syphilis?

[andrewducker]

I recommend taking a look at Defense Grid: The Awakening. I played the demo on Friday, paid £6 for the full version, and it then took up more of my weekend than I should really admit to :->

Very polished, and with a nice range of different tactics needed.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Sadly only PC and xBox, and I haven't got a virtual Windows machine set up yet.
Amused to notice http://defensegrid.hiddenpath.com/ is a Drupal site!

[andrewducker]

Is there anything it can't do???

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Toast?

[cdave]

Ta for the Google link. I have no idea how they got hold of the tiny subset of my bloglines RSS feed for my undeletable unwanted Google reader account.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Any way to block farmville and mafia wars updates on facebook?

[andrewducker]

Usually there's a "block application" option next to the news item.

I use Facebook Lite, so I don't see them at all, of course.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

i posted the link to the Scamville one on my facebook. it seems not to be there anymore...

Now I will freely admit to having trouble lately with facebook not staying up to date, but I do very much wonder. Very much why I posted it, just to see what happened...

[andrewducker]

You got censored? Bloody hell. I didn't know they did that...

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

As I said, not 100% sure... Possibly. I have had a coupla weird posting issues in the past. I don't know whether to try again from say IE rather than Orca.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I posted the link on the 2nd and it's still there.