Two bits of Livejournal News

1) There's been a style contest - to design new LJ styles. Go here and vote.

2) If any of you are l33t coders then go here and see if you can be of service - there's a need for a decent client for the photo code.

Huzzah for moi

rainstorm just pointed out that my post on ettiquette comes up in the top 10 for google searches for 'ettiquette'.

tisme pointed out a few weeks ago that when you google for 'Mcelhinney Alan Moore' that my Wiki comes up before the Sunday Herald article itself. Cool - I outrank a national newspaper.

I kick ass.

An actually interesting political poll

Asks a bunch of questions about you (age, voting intention, perceived place on the political spectrum) and then a bunch more questions on your actual beliefs. Then compares your answers to the beliefs with others who are going to vote the same way as you/read the same paper as you, etc.


Every dot in this picture represents a cluster of people who have taken the poll.


I am, apparently, extremely internationalist and rehabilitationalist, with 96% of people being harder on criminals, immigrants and the third world than me. 12% of Green voters, 9% of Lib Dems and 6% of Labour supporters are the same as me (or more so), everyone else is a complete bastard (apparently). Oh, and people like me read The Guardian. Hardly surprising, even if I am an Independent reader.

On the other hand, when it comes to personal responsibility I'm off to the right, despite answer 'don't know' to a fair chunk of the questions they asked with an economic bent, or the war with Iraq. Apparently my wishy-washy position was still stronger than the majority of you stridently communist types. This puzzles me somewhat, because I also went for public ownership of the railways and higher taxes for rich people - but obviously not to as high an extent as the strongly Marxist average man in the street.

You can take a look at my 3 pages of results here and take the survey yourself here.