Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• Slime mould mimics Tokyo's railway
  (tags: science evolution ai)
• Drug scare girl actually died of natural causes. Newspapers unrepentant.
  (tags: mephedrone reporting newspapers drugs uk)
• James Patterson Inc - inside the world of the world's best selling author.
  I really hadn't realised how massive he was
  (tags: writing business marketing)
• Scientist radically misquoted by news media, news media completely fails to retract
  (tags: psychology attraction news reporting)
• Geek behaviors present during conversations
  (tags: geek psychology communication behavior social personality geeks culture)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

So slime mould makes a pretty good mathematician after all.....

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

The last one: I want to repeatedly smack anyone that tells me "You should really switch to Linux."

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

That article was about the ways geeks and non-geeks annoy each other. I'd love to see something about how geek to geek conversation works.

[andrewducker]

Well, the one I linked to about conventions was observations of geeks in their natural habitat, so that's more that kind of tihng.