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.]

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I've been to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It's down just outside Dumfries and just as spectacular as the photographs suggest. The one thing you don't appreciate from photographs though is the scale. It is huge. I would recommend anyone pay it a visit, although I think it is only occasionally open to the public.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

You are perhaps doing a bit of a 'scary newspaper headline' on the AAA CDOs one.

"AAA-rated subprime-mortgage-backed securities issued in 2006, 93 percent — 93 percent! — have now been downgraded to junk status."

(from article, my emphasis)

bit different to what your headline says....

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I wish I saw the point about children of married couples not better because their parents are married but because their parents are richer made more often. I rarely see the Tories called on this point - it gets repeated more or less unchallenged.

[girl-onthego.livejournal.com]

I need to figure out how to get your delicious feed to just go straight into my Instapaper feed.

[broin.livejournal.com]

I have a Torrent of Legend too! Mine is a collection of a Vertigo comic that no-one has ever heard of. Probably because it wasn't good. I don't think you had it, either. Called 'Sadhu'? 97.3% for going on a year now.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Blood type is a bit like star signs in Japanese culture; Japanese games often give the blood type for their characters (e.g. Street Fighter II)

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

93% of AAA rated CDOs issued in 2006 turn out to have been junk.

Fixed that for ya. It's significant.