Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• Scientists recreate Maxwell's Demon
  Clarke's Third Law applies, obviously
  (tags: science TheFuture)
• This is why I was never any good at flirting
  (tags: comic funny flirting)
• Pure CSS 3D Coke Can
  Damn, that's impressive!
  (tags: 3d coke design programming html css)
• FT Alphaville » The bank problem in a single chart
• Whole Foods Offers Employee Discount Based On BMI
  And also campaigns against healthcare reform.
  (tags: health usa EpicFail)
• Blu-ray Maker Re-Boxes $500 Player, Charges $3,500
  Would you like some oxygen free cables to go with that?
  (tags: hardware marketing scam technology EpicFail)
• Teacher Anxieties May Subtract From Girlsâ™ Math Scores
  (tags: mathematics gender society psychology teaching)
• How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level
  (tags: brain science memory neuroscience psychology biology)
• German court finds parent liable for child's file-sharing
  (tags: law germany filesharing)
• Use Google Reader to follow changes to any website
  (tags: google rss)
• UK more liberal on homosexuality, says survey. Still 33% bigoted though.
  Some 36% thought homosexual acts were "always" or "mostly" wrong, down from 62% when the British Social Attitudes survey was first carried out, in 1983.
  (tags: gay politics uk society)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Headphones - ask friends to recomend some, and try them out if you can (after a good wipe, of course). I recommend Sennheiser CX 300's, which are about £20 and great sound quality. When I'm out and about I use Koss Sparkplugs because they keep sounds out better (being basically an ear plug with a hole drilled through the middle).

As for toothpaste - I hate really minty toothpaste, and don't like the texture of whitening toothpaste that Julie uses, so we have different toothpastes. If you don't care which kind you use then just buy the cheapest one - and then if you don't like it throw it away and buy a different one.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yup, for toothpaste, I can see there's a mintiness scale, and orthogonal to that is features like whitening / sensitive / regular. That still produces a grid of at most 9 types, and even allowing a few more if toothpastes came in non-mint flavours, it's not the array you see in Tesco.

BTW the whitening ones wear away your enamel.

Thanks for the tips. These would be exclusively for being out, so better noise reduction would be better. I tried Katie's which were maybe the Sennheiser.

[andrewducker]

Well, I'm not sure you get more than 9 types of toothpaste per manufacturer - but what you do get is different container types. Plus, of course, different manufacturers. I'll be intrigued next time I'm in Sainsburies!

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Just to back up Andrew: every piece of headphone-buying advice I have read, plus my own limited experience and that of my friends, boils down to this: decide your budget, then buy whatever set of Sennheisers most comfortably matches it.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Very good! I had written a post about the CX300s (15 quid if you look around).

Whereas I'm stuck trying to find a laptop for a friend. Needs to run Windows 7, minimal use - surfing, some movies. 15 inch. Keyboard with lots of travel and depth. Cheap shipping. €400. Not easy, as it turns out.

[andrewducker]

This looks like an updated version of my laptop:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179694
£350 - 15", comes with Windows 7. My keyboard is fine for me, but it's hard to know without trying it what this one is like. It has a ATI Radeon Mobility in it, which isn't up to Modern Warfare (I'd imagine) but happily plays World of Warcraft.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Ebuyer don't ship to Ireland. =)

This is one of the many places it gets interesting. Now, Laptops Direct have it, but I'd really like to scrape off that excess €34.79.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Oh hang on. Ebuyer do deliver.

How was your keyboard? Lots of depth and movement?