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Two fantastic graphs on the US elections - the second one is particularly illuminating. McCain is (hopefully) fucked.
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Charlie Brooker writes TV series where Zombies take over the Big Brother House...
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With Nathan Fillion in it! Two minutes long, and well worth a look.
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Very impressive 3D sketching system.
Oct. 13th, 2008
Calling all you educated types
Oct. 13th, 2008 05:20 pmThere's an article here looking at bodyfat, Vitamin D and Autism/ADHD and I'm wondering if it's junk science, or it's something I should be paying attention to.
It's already passed my basic "It's not written by a raving madman" filter, but there are people on this list who are much better educated than I about biology.
Anyone got any thoughts?
It's already passed my basic "It's not written by a raving madman" filter, but there are people on this list who are much better educated than I about biology.
Anyone got any thoughts?
I'm not going to reply to everyone on the last post, so a general "thanks" to everyone that replied. Lots of interesting stuff there.
One of the interesting things in the responses was the number of people who thought they should let me know that it wasn't a peer-reviewed paper in a renowned journal. Clearly, I knew that - it was someone's personal page, with their thoughts on it. If it had been a published paper I wouldn't have bothered asking you lot, I'd have had a look to see if it had been refuted.
Similarly, some people seemed to think that because it wasn't presented as Pure Science, but also had personal opinion, it couldn't have anything to it, an approach I find frankly baffling.
However, there were also plenty of good arguments against it, and while some of the ideas are interesting, I'm certainly not taking it at face value. Cheers to all of you!
One of the interesting things in the responses was the number of people who thought they should let me know that it wasn't a peer-reviewed paper in a renowned journal. Clearly, I knew that - it was someone's personal page, with their thoughts on it. If it had been a published paper I wouldn't have bothered asking you lot, I'd have had a look to see if it had been refuted.
Similarly, some people seemed to think that because it wasn't presented as Pure Science, but also had personal opinion, it couldn't have anything to it, an approach I find frankly baffling.
However, there were also plenty of good arguments against it, and while some of the ideas are interesting, I'm certainly not taking it at face value. Cheers to all of you!
They tell me you're watching me
Oct. 13th, 2008 08:46 pmFor quite a while now I've been using LJ Toys intermittently as a way of keeping track who reads me, andd who doesn't. It's not something I've spent a lot of time on, but it's been amusing and informative to see who actually reads me on their friends list and what filter group I'm in, as well as who reads me who isn't on my friends list. Oh, the hours of fun I've had tracking IP addresses down to see where hits are actually coming from.
But I realised recently that I was checking it rather too often, and that I was thinking just a little too much about who read me, who didn't, and who I was writing for. So I just cancelled my subscription to it, and I'm going to do my best to just not think about it. People read me, or they don't, and that's fine - I know there are people out there who don't have an LJ, but enjoy dropping in from time to time, and I also know that there are people who have been on my friends list for over half a decade that only drop in a couple of times a year, and I don't actually think it matters that much.
I have real friends in my real life, and I have people who enjoy reading me, and I shouldn't let the two get confused (not that there aren't a fair number of you I wouldn't mind meeting at some point). I write for myself, whatever I feel like, and that's as it should be.
Now, if only my the last bits of this cold would stop fuzzing around my head, I'd be actually able to!
But I realised recently that I was checking it rather too often, and that I was thinking just a little too much about who read me, who didn't, and who I was writing for. So I just cancelled my subscription to it, and I'm going to do my best to just not think about it. People read me, or they don't, and that's fine - I know there are people out there who don't have an LJ, but enjoy dropping in from time to time, and I also know that there are people who have been on my friends list for over half a decade that only drop in a couple of times a year, and I don't actually think it matters that much.
I have real friends in my real life, and I have people who enjoy reading me, and I shouldn't let the two get confused (not that there aren't a fair number of you I wouldn't mind meeting at some point). I write for myself, whatever I feel like, and that's as it should be.
Now, if only my the last bits of this cold would stop fuzzing around my head, I'd be actually able to!