I wish that Something Positive was available in book form.

Brrrrrrrrr.

.......speaking to a work colleague on Tuesday about the snow. He said it was like The Day After Tomorrow. I thought he was exaggerating, but it's now Thursday and you know what, he was right.

(I can't claim responsibility for this one, glorious though it is.)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-2-2010

• New psychology theory enables computers to mimic human creativity
  (tags: creativity computers intelligence research ai psychology)
• High stress levels can be passed on to children epigenetically
  (tags: genetics stress psychology children)
• What if Jesus was a Culture agent?
  (tags: IainBanks TheCulture)
• How YouPorn Checks What Other Porn Sites You’ve Visited (and Ad Networks Test The Quality of Their Data)
  (tags: privacy security porn)
• Why Julian "Wikileaks" Assange deserves a Nobel Peace Prize
  (tags: politics wikileaks democracy media freedom government capitalism control TransparentSociety)
• If you have Spotify you can hear a sampler of Daft Punk's Tron soundtrack. First impressions are good.
  (tags: DaftPunk Tron soundtrack music spotify)
• The Met Office answers the question I've been wondering for the last couple of days: Why is it so cold and snowy?
  (tags: weather uk scotland snow)
• Obama asks the Senate to repeal the Don't Ask Don't Tell law.
  (tags: politics lgbt usa military)
• Dear Ms. Moon (a very short science fiction story)
  (tags: scifi story short_story)
• Republicans sending 2 million people to the homeless shelters for Christmas, as they block jobless benefits extension.
  (tags: benefits welfare usa)
• We live in the age of fading technology
  (tags: nostalgia hardware change time trends)
• LG working on a quantum dot television. Lighter and more efficient than existing tvs.
  (tags: television quantum technology)
• How smart, analytical people can avoid accidentally violating the "don't be a dick" principle
  (tags: intelligence social conversation socialskills)
• IBM's nanophotonics means Exascale computing on the way
  (tags: ibm technology optical photonics)
• Raised mercury levels in wetland birds increase homosexual behaviour
  (tags: homosexuality lgbt birds mercury hormones)
• Prenatal testosterone levels correlated with prostate cancer (it's the finger-ratios again - I love that stat)
  (tags: cancer health hormones men testosterone)

I've heard the equivalent a few times...