Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• 93% of AAA rated CDOs turn out to have been junk.
  (tags: politics banks economics finance fraud)
• Life under Labour: better or worse?
  As I've said repeatedly - a major failing of Labour is in not changing the dialogue about poverty and redistribution.
  (tags: poverty politics uk)
• The Torrent Of Legend - I have one of these!
  (tags: bittorrent funny comic)
• Leopard and cubs on webcam
  All together now, "Awwwwwww"
  (tags: webcam leopard cute)
• Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating
  (tags: dating economics statistics love onlinedating)
• Dating by blood type in Japan
  (tags: dating blood EpicFail)
• The kind of beserk paternalism that deserves a protest
  (tags: usa feminism abortion rights)
• The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
  (tags: nature plants water architecture gardens)
• Pencil vs. Camera
  (tags: art photography)
• 30 Awesome Minimalist Superhero Posters
  (tags: superheroes art)
• David Cameron undermines his own marriage tax
  (tags: tax marriage conservatives uk politics)

Comments

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

The online dating article is interesting (as are all the posts on OkCupid's blog - I love the way they have a tame stats geek writing it) but it is more a critique of a particular model of pay-dating site. I've just had a spectacular success with paid membership of Guardian Soulmates - let's just say neither I nor my new girlfriend are paid members any more - but its operating model does seem rather different to the sites that article is criticising.

[GSM allows very basic messaging without paying, and has a quite sophisticated compatibility searching model. As such you can trawl and make initial contact without having to pay if you want, although you get rather better and more tunable search options if you do. Of course I am now showing the bias of someone who succeeded, but I think my four months' subs may prove to be the best £80 I spent in a long time.]

[broin.livejournal.com]

The Guardian have a dating site?

Whose joke was it about 'The Nazis might have been bad, but no-one has ever fantasised about being tied to a chair by a liberal'? :D

[andrewducker]

Yup, Ravs got married to the person he met on The Guardian dating site...

[broin.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty good site. And everyone appears to be spelling.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I'd have gone for the Guardian or Independent dating sites if I was looking now.

I didn't actually realise you had a new girlfriend. I must not be on that filter :->

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Not all of us blog all the time to everyone about everything that happens to us ;-)

[andrewducker]

Apparently so :->

I don't blog about _everything_.

I didn't talk about the adventures of our squad of Inquisition members on board a Space Hulk last night at all!

And I mostly don't talk about work.

In fact, it largely seems to be amusing pictures of cute animals and lolcanos.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I was teasing!

(And I'd quite enjoy #1, in a sort of vicarious-gaming way seeing as how I rarely have the time or opportunity at the moment).

[andrewducker]

I assumed the teasing. There really ought to be an emoticon for "I know you're not being malicious, and am thus playing along in order to be on the right side of the joke."

I get about 2 and a half hours of gaming per week at the moment. Which is not enough in some ways, but actually perfect in others, considering how busy I seem to be.