Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-13-2008

• Anti Spore
  The best rick-rolling _ever_. Start from the bottom, read a few entries, and then come up to the most recent entry and read it, including the second-to-last paragraph. Fantastic work.
  (tags: religion funny gaming)
• Stripes or hoops? Fashion myth uncovered
  He carried out a study on about 20 people, who were asked to assess the relative size of different dresses in either horizontal or vertical stripes. The supremacy of horizontal stripes in the "big bum" debate was clear-cut, he said. "Horizontal stripes don't make you look fat. It's a subtle effect, but in fact people wearing vertical stripes look wider than the ones who are wearing horizontal stripes," Dr Thompson said.
  (tags: fashion optical_illusion)
• Researchers find racial bias in virtual worlds
  (tags: research racism internet games psychology)

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin

Not that he's saying anything that other people haven't said, but still, worth saying again.

(cheers to johnbobshaun for that one)

The Right Tools

Spent an hour this morning sorting out the bit of "garden" front of the flat with some thin garden gloves and some awful cheap shears.

Then went to B&Q, got a decent pruner and some thick gloves, and got the rest done twice as fast, and with a much better result.

Note To Self: you don't buy cheap computer components, don't buy cheap DIY stuff.

I then read this article about how important fast-typing speed is as a coder, went here and tried out their typing-speed test. Which was a bastard, as it's full of non-standard spellings. but I got 62WPM and only one mistake (on word 4), so I feel quite good about that.

I just spat blackcurrant juice on the keyboard

(from theweaselking, of course)

Bloody Hell

Why did nobody tell me that Saudi Arabia had left OPEC?

Next up - more of the oil producing countries converting to using the Euro.