Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-18-2009

[andrewducker]

• The Evolution of Cooperation and Trench Warfare in WWI - utterly fascinating
  (tags: history cooperation psychology war wwi)
• Women rate photos of men higher if they're at the top of the page. Men rate women inversely.
  (tags: gender women men attraction psychology)
• eBooks are not significantly cheaper to produce than paper books.
  (tags: publishing books)
• Season Shot - Ammo with flavor.
  A perfect christmas present for the hunter in your life!
  (tags: cooking food ammo guns)
• What happens when you don't invest in your computer systems
  (tags: banking computers EpicFail ibm)

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

> Women rate photos of men higher if they're at the top of the page. Men rate women inversely.

Hah. I clicked this link in the fatalistic expectation that it would have some bullshit evolutionary "psychology" explanation, and I wasn't disappointed.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I don't believe the explanation for an instant. But the effect is still interesting.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I don't even believe in the effect based on that size sample!

Still - another fascinating collection of links as always sir.

Cooperation in the trenches...

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

It always bugs me when this is spun as a triumph of working class solidarity etc etc. Reading the actual accounts, it looks more like the kind of chivalry we've always practised in the West.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Season Shot - Ammo with flavor.
A perfect christmas present for the hunter in your life!</blockquote OMG!! Now I really want to learn to hunt birds!!!!!

[drjon.livejournal.com]

> eBooks are not significantly cheaper to produce than paper books.

In terms of m/s production costs, they're more expensive (sometimes significantly more expensive) than producing a print-ready file, because they have bells and whistles that a printfile doesn't.

I will read that post and comments at leisure, as it looks quite interesting.