Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-2-2010

[andrewducker]

• Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900
  9) Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Natureâ™s colors.
  (tags: predictions future technology science culture history)
• Long arm of law reaches into World of Warcraft
  Smite!
  (tags: games law)
• WiFi for passive-aggressives
  (tags: wifi funny)
• Photographic Height/Weight Chart
  (tags: weight health reference photography visualization)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

WoW: would be more impressive if they'd actually gone into WoW to track him or something.

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

My favourite is number siksteen:

Prediction #16: There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers. English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas, and will be more extensively spoken than any other. Russian will rank second.

If we kould implement that, we kould skweeze another three kharakters into every kode page. Ekskwisite!

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Electricity will allow us to do cool stuff! We don't quite know how, but we're sure it will be good.

Note the obsession with everything being bigger! And folks, can we say "biosphere"?

[yalovetz]

I am surfing on a public internet terminal and the latter two links are both blocked for "adult content". Pah.

[andrewducker]

Pah indeed!

Neither is terribly adult, although there are people in the height/weight chart who aren't wearing _lots_ of clothes it's not porn.