Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-1-2009

• Vegetarians avoid more cancers
  Overall, their results suggested that while in the general population about 33 people in 100 will develop cancer during their lifetime, for those who do not eat meat that risk is reduced to about 29 in 100.
  (tags: health cancer diet vegetarian)
• Ugly fruit back on sale in EU
  Nom!
  (tags: eu food law politics)
• Debate over government-funded police protection heats u
  "Do we want long wait times when we call for the police, like people in countries with socialized police forces?" Sen. Russell Flack, R-Ga., asked during a floor debate yesterday. "Under our system, we can choose our own police officers, as long as we pay for protection out of our own pockets. Do we want some government bureaucrat choosing the police for us?"
  (tags: politics usa funny healthcare)
• Time for your quarter-life crisis
  I think I'm up to Crisis 17.
  (tags: sociology psychology culture life work society anomie)
• A very fun bit of C++
  I love that this is actually valid code.
  (tags: programming c++ funny geek)
• Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama
  Retro computing battles for teh win!
  (tags: TV computers retro technology)
• Vitamin D and Fish Oil - massive trials to take place
  20,000 people to be brought into five-year double-blind test.
  (tags: science medicine biology fish vitaminD)
• Daily sex best for good sperm
  Just in case you were wondering.
  (tags: sex sperm fertility)
• Coming out atheist vs. coming out gay
  Apparently many families found their children coming out as atheist harder than their children coming out as gay. In the USA, of course.
  (tags: usa religion atheism homosexuality culture)