Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-8-2010

• Brilliant article on Mad Men that actually gets to grips with it in more than the superficial manner that most journalists manage.
  (tags: madmen tv)
• Psychologists identify killer dance moves for men - I saw this guy at the Fringe. He was very good.
  (tags: psychology perception dancing music dance)
• As an extreme of systemising presents as aspergers, an extreme of empathising presents as psychosis
  (tags: psychology brain psychosis emotion)
• Scots greenhouse gas emissions down 21% in decade
  (tags: ecology globalwarming scotland)
• What actually happens when time "slows down" during an accident.
  (tags: time perception brain psychology memory)
• The secret of self-control
  (tags: psychology education self-control motivation)
• Australian Olympian Tweets 'Suck on That F*ggots', Loses Sponsor
  (tags: sponsorship sports business advertising marketing homophobia lgbt)
• Meat eating not actually nearly as bad for the environment as you might have heard
  (tags: food veganism farming meat vegetarianism vegan)

Apparently Atheists are smarter than Agnostics

From OK Cupid's piece on race, culture and the differences in people's profiles on their dating site.

Further experimentation

My PC comes with something called "Express Gate" - a bootable linux attached to the motherboard that is theoretically "instant-on". Some brief timings later:
Time to boot to a completely limited OS with a cut-down version of Firefox which can't do addons: 22 seconds.
Time to boot to Windows full desktop and display the full version of Firefox with all of my bookmarks and addons: 65 seconds.
Time to resume from sleep to my complete Windows desktop: 3 seconds (of which 2 seconds is it reconnecting to the network and getting an IP address)

I think I'll stick with the last of these - all of the gain, none of the pain.

This is all pickwick's fault

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