Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-8-2010

• One third of Brits are gamers - both men and women
  (tags: gaming statistics)
• The results of interviews with 983 gamers - ‘Girls like to game, but games are not well tuned to their interests.’
  (tags: gaming games gender)
• BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act
  (tags: bt government technology uk internet)
• Getting out in nature is apparently good for you. I'm shocked!
  A study of 280 healthy people in Japan, where visiting nature parks for therapeutic effect has become a popular practice called 'Shinrin-yoku,' or 'forest bathing,' found that being among plants produced 'lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, and lower blood pressure,' among other things. Another study in 2007 showed that men who took two-hour walks in a forest over two days had a 50-percent spike in levels of natural killer cells, and a third study found an increase in white blood cells that lasted for a week in women exposed to phytoncides in forest air."
  (tags: health nature)
• A lovely story of a rescued pigeon
  (tags: pigeon birds)
• Exposure to Plants and Parks Can Boost Immunity
  (tags: health nature immune_system)
• A very odd case. One where I doubt the truth will ever be known
  (tags: law abuse uk odd)
• Doctor Suing For Bad Ratings Online - apparently unaware of Streisand Effect
  (tags: medicine internet law EpicFail)
• Ofcom, Sky and the Government. Things are not looking good.
  (tags: regulation media uk news reporting)
• Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?
  I'm intrgued by this idea
  (tags: social money socialmedia business commercial interesting flattr micropayments)
• Analogue TVs no longer sold by UK retailers
  (tags: tv digital technology)

Story of the day

Chatting to octopoid_horror about the lucky coincidence of one of the 7/7 bombings happening outside of the HQ of the British Medical Association, and he told me that:
A girl at work tore a tendon and fractured her foot playing rugby. Luckily one team was all physiotherapists and the other was all nurses.

One wonders just how often these things happen...