Fun and games with Livejournal

Bah!  Wasted about three hours while writing an LJ client because while livejournal will take an md5 hashed password in either upper or lower case, when you're adding in the challenge and sending the hash of that it suddenly insists that it has to be in lower case.  Not that it tells you - you just get told your password is wrong...

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-31-2008

• Self Awareness - the last frontier
  Fascinating essay from someone working on the edges of that frontier.
  (tags: science psychology brain philosophy consciousness mind)
• Novelist Terry Pratchett knighted in New Year honours list
  W00t!
  (tags: UK terrypratchett)
• Vitamin supplements do not reduce cancer risk
  The researchers gave vitamins C, E, beta-carotene or placebo pills to patients and followed their progress for an average of nearly 10 years. The results showed that the supplements, either on their own or in combination, did not protect the women against cancer.
  (tags: research cancer placebo vitamins)
• Human beings are born with numbers on the brain
  I had the number 8.
  (tags: genetics numbers)
• Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes
  Doooooomed!
  (tags: yellowstone global_catastrophe end_of_the_world hyperbole)
• Basic income: good in Namibia, bad in Libertopia
  I'd like to see a Basic Income, I really would. It would solve a lot of problems. I'm still to be convinced that it's affordable. Anyone got any solid numbers?
  (tags: economics politics)
• 28 Months Later
  Some very interesting ponderings on what would happen in the time after the end of 28 weeks later - with numbers on transmission speed and the like.
  (tags: movies zombies horror)
• Student's £100bn overdraft shock
  Note to student - don't take the credit card with you when you go out drinking...
  (tags: funny banking)

7 hours to go!