Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• How one woman can cause economic boom or bust - and why a change in employment of 0.1% is meaningless
  (tags: statistics jobs analysis economy)
• Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations
  (tags: religion intelligence atheism)
• Lake Agassiz - the giant prehistoric lake
  Why had I never heard of this?
  (tags: geography history map)
• Why bonuses and performance pay are a bad idea
  I'd link directly to the FT article, but I've had my total allocation of articles for the month.
  (tags: reward business finance)
• The Traceability of an Anonymous Online Comment (very, very high)
  (tags: privacy anonymity freespeech internet surveillance)
• BBC to re-create the sinking of Atlantis a la 300
  (tags: atlantis history bbc)
• Apparently Dr Who is kinky...
  (tags: DrWho EpicFail)
• Air stewardess revealed as part time porn star, keeps job. Huzzah!
  (tags: porn feminism liberty)
• Demonstrating web security - and just how easy it is to hack many systems.
  (tags: security database hacking sql sqlinjection)
• January Was Hottest Ever
  (tags: weather climate climatechange)
• "Mad Libs" Style Form is filled in up to 40% more often than normal webform.
  (tags: forms usability ui webdesign design web)
• How the normalising of homosexuality affected one person's Valentine's Day
  (tags: cute valentines_day homosexuality society)

Comments

[drplokta]

Thanks for the webform link -- looks very interesting, and I've sent it to some of my colleagues at work.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I'm betting that the narrative forms get into common use, the odds of them being used will drop to the same level you see for standard forms-- the current greater use is a little about the friendliness, but mostly about about novelty.

[andrewducker]

I'd love to know how well it works for you. There's already been a discussion on Hacker News of someone trying a followup that didn't get the desired results, along with theories as to why this might be.