Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-8-2010

• Coffee shop that looks like a sideways library
  (tags: books coffee design EpicWin)
• The awesome design of the Stuxnet worm. Seriously, it's like something out of Mission Impossible.
  (tags: security worm virus internet malware windows faq)
• Income differentials in the UK are 15x between bottom and top 20%. Reduced to 5x through redistribution and services.
  (tags: statistics income money inequality uk)
• Johnny Depp visits school, makes children explode into joy.
  Never got this when I was a kid. Bastards!
  (tags: johnnydepp pirates school uk)
• International Baccalaureate plagiarising Wikipedia
  (tags: wikipedia education)
• Health And Safety regulation/enforcement is already at a massively lower level than it was fifteen years ago.
  (tags: health safety politics society uk)
• Alaskan Fire-Fighting - what life is like in a state where paying for firemen is voluntary.
  (tags: fire libertarianism usa)

Unemployment

There are _bound_ to be sociological studies of unemployement out there. Anyone know of any which dig into the reasons why individuals don't have jobs. I know the information's going to be hard to tease out of them, but I'd love to know what we do know...

The joy of convergent devices

[Poll #1629186]

Things which annoy me in .Net #372

There were no generics in the first version. And all of the Windows Forms code was written then, and hasn't been updated to use generics.

So (for instance), despite all of the items in Listview.Items being of type ListviewItem they're returned as Object, because it implements IEnumerable, rather than IEnumerable.

So if I want to get a list of items from the listview I have to iterate around them all, casting them to the correct type rather than just using an AddRange. Admittedly, on an individual level this isn't much of a hardship, but it's still frustrating when you add up all of the times I have to do something like that.

I know that going back and updating all of the Windows Forms code to be generic compliant would be extra effort, but it seems like one of those things that would be worth it...

Google have outdone themselves

The music video built into today's logo is just lovely.

Thanks to peteyoung for pointing it out - I almost never go to the main page, so I'd have missed this entirely.

The definition of liberty

Reposted because I have a new icon!

How can you have any disco if you don't eat your meat?!

via nickys
who also linked to Led Zeppelin versus Black Sabbath, which is terribly awesome in its own right.

I'm sure that this will be every bit as accurate as the ghost walks up on the Royal Mile

It is funny seeing bits of city that I recognise.