Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-29-2009

[andrewducker]

• The most powerful character. EVER.
  Now that's rule-destroying!
  (tags: dungeonsanddragons rules funny)
• The Amen break - a six second sample that spawned several musical subcultures
  (tags: music history sound drums)
• How to achieve your New Year's Resolutions
  People who kept their resolutions tended to have broken their goal into smaller steps and rewarded themselves when they achieved one of these. They also told their friends about their goals, focused on the benefits of success and kept a diary of their progress.
  (tags: resolutions psychology self-improvement)
• Blame Denmark, not China, for Copenhagen failure
  Secrecy within elitism within secrecy!
  (tags: climatechange globalwarming copenhagen)
• A comparison of Avatar with the original script.
  Which sounds altogether better.
  (tags: movies scifi cinema JamesCameron)
• AT&T Customer Service: "New York City Is Not Ready For The iPhone"
  (tags: iphone apple nyc mobile EpicFail)

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Oh, Pun-Pun. I think it's worthwhile to show this to some powergamers. One powergamer mentality is, "I want to make the most powerful character because rules are interesting and I want to squeeze the most out of the rules that I can". Pun-Pun is a reductio ad absurdum of that path. Of course, this risks going horribly, horribly wrong. :D

[andrewducker]

Pun-Pun's for everyone!

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Pun-Pun is the start of a magical singularity.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

the iPhone was definitely the most popular handset when I was in NYC in October - I reckon that about 3 out of every 4 people I saw using a handset was on an iPhone. the IPhone over here seems to use different services from other o2 phones so I suspect the same is true over there - Last week MMS service was totally knackered on the iPhone, I couldn't send or receive for about a week however other phones on O2 experienced no such problem. I checked with others on iPhones and they couldn't send or receive either.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I'll agree that Denmark was the cause of Copenhagen's collapse, but not for the reason Mr. Khor states. The fault lay in expecting that 193 independent bargaining agents with conflicting goals could come up with some sort of consensus document covering a highly-complex problem. That's not a problem of cat herding, it's one of forming a feline fife-and-drum corps... and that takes a lot longer than a couple of weeks, even with preliminary negotiations.

-- Steve doesn't think that the fracas outside the barricades helped much either.