Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-13-2009

• The hidden problems with living in a 24-hour world
  Sleepless? Stressed? Anxious? Exhausted? This (lengthy) article talks about various societal causes, and how we get ourselves into this state.
  (tags: health sleep life society)
• Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming
  A software designer talks about using LSD as a visualisation tool when he was putting together a large application.
  (tags: programming lsd drugs brain technology)
• Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief
  People dipped their hands in freezing water and then chanted either swear words or neutral words. The ones who swore lasted 40 seconds extra...
  (tags: swearing science brain language psychology pain research)
• Stepping back
  Torchwood Writer talks about the fan reaction to the most recent series. No spoilers.
  (tags: Torchwood tv writing)
• 1,2,3,4 - I declare a Penis War!
  Warning. Not safe for work. Really. Didn't squick me, but your tastes may vary.
  (tags: penis bodymodification)
• Recommended quiet pubs in Edinburgh
  (tags: drinking pubs Edinburgh)
• Cheney ordered CIA to hide plan
  A plan we still don't know the details of.
  (tags: politics spying CIA usa)
• Czechoslovak dissidents' mental resistance
  A look at life under communism in the 1980s. Too many people don't know that this happened to real people.
  (tags: politics communism history society)

Watch the darkness and the light

from budgie_uk

Comparing the general population and prisoners

Particularly the "suffers from two or more mental disorders", "no qualifications" and numeracy/literacy rows.

From.

Whining about Facebook

I don't mind people bringing through interesting twitter updates to their Facebook statuses - but if they're prolific twitterers and they bring through all of their "private" @someone twits then they're really clogging up my news feed.

Is there any way to block this kind of thing from my news feed other than removing the person?

Video advice needed.

Step 1: Record a 13 second clip with a webcam.
Step 2: Realise it's 167MB, because I recorded in 640x480
Step 3: Attempt to use Windows Movie Maker to resize it.
Step 4: End up with a completely black screen and no sound in the movie it creates.

Does anyone have any recommendations for free software to resize AVI files?

World of Neverwinter Nights

Julie: I can't shut my laptop, I'm in the middle of killing a Zombie Lord!