Cheap Wine!

Get 40% OFF ALL WINE & CHAMPAGNE* with Threshers, Wine Rack & Victoria Wine. From the 19th November to 2nd December inclusive (*see voucher for terms & conditions, offer open to everyone - students & non-students).

Student voucher here and non-student voucher here. As far as I can tell there's no catch, and who doesn't like vastly-discounted wine? Communists, that's who.

You can thank erindubitably for passing that one on...

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-20-2008

• Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt
  Well, maybe not. But interesting all the same
  (tags: philosophy)
• Doctor Who (before the Tardis)
  A look at some of the very early discussions and documents used when first putting together Dr Who - in the 1960s
  (tags: television fandom doctorwho bbc)
• UK 'ahead in digital TV uptake'
  Digital television is spreading faster in Britain than in France, Canada, the US, Germany, Italy and Japan, according to UK communications regulator Ofcom.
  
  Ofcom also says British consumers pay less than those in other countries for TV, mobile phones and broadband.
  (tags: television digital broadband)
• Deep Brain Stimulation Cures Urge To Self Mutilate
  Also, the urge to smoke.
  (tags: neuroscience brains)
• Cooperative Gameplay, and it's uses in the destruction of Zombie Hordes
  In this case, specifically Left 4 Dead
  (tags: online games design)
• Who doesn't have a belly button?
  Aliens, that's who! Also robots! And clones! And presumaly Adam! Also, this supermodel.
  (tags: funny weird)
• Studies show stress can reshape the brain
  Brain scans showed that children's stressful upbringing increased activity in the amygdala, a region involved in emotion. "Adverse rearing environments can produce long-lasting changes in the ability to regulate emotion,"
  (tags: stress brains neuroscience)
• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
  Looks pretty useful - if only I did collaborative text editing
  (tags: writing web2.0 tools productivity)
• 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography
  Look at all the tiny people!!
  (tags: photography tilt-shift)
• Real Out-of-Body Experiences
  Position two mirrors facing each other and then lean toward one so that two thirds of your face is reflected in it. Scratch your cheek and stare deep into the hall of mirrors you have created, past your original reflection, past the image of your back, and settle on the third reflectionâ”your own face but slightly obscured. Within seconds, you won't recognize that reflection as you, says neuroscientist Eric Altschuler
  (tags: fun science neuroscience brains illusions)
• Fire in the Hole!
  NSFW. really
  (tags: Fire NSFW)
• Atypical play behaviors in infancy predict autism diagnosis
  These results indicate that, among children at familial risk for autism, atypical object use during infancy seems to be associated with autism diagnosis during early childhood. Furthermore, this effect appears to be specific to austim --and not to general developmental delays.
  (tags: autism research brain psychology)
• Improve Your Luck Scientifically
  Consider chance opportunities: Lucky people regularly have them; unlucky people don't. To determine why, I gave lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to tell me how many photos were inside. On average, unlucky people spent about two minutes on this exercise; lucky people spent seconds. Why? Because on the paper's second page -- in big type -- was the message "Stop counting: There are 43 photographs in this newspaper." Lucky people tended to spot the message. Unlucky ones didn't. I put a second one halfway through the paper: "Stop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $250." Again, the unlucky people missed it.
  (tags: productivity perception inspiration self-improvement)