Interesting Links for 22-1-2011

• Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
  (tags: funny advertising marketing)
• Does email address obfuscation actually work? (with graph!)
  (tags: email spam html obfuscation)
• Apple putting tamper-proof screws on iPhone to stop you changing your own battery.
  (tags: iphone apple OhForFucksSake)
• Meteorologists identify cause of cold and warm periods during winter (like the recent cold snap)
  (tags: weather meteorology stratosphere winter)
• Daily Mail lying about a politician's expenses, to make them look bad. Can you guess which party?
  (tags: labour DailyMail uk)
• The quest for a reliable lie detector test
  (tags: brains psychology lying)
• ID cards to be scrapped at midnight tonight
  (tags: identity government uk)
• First impressions are general, further impressions are contextual
  (tags: psychology social relationships)

Black like your soul

This started out funny, and just got more and more awesome the further though I got.

Smoooooooooooth

via pozorvlak over on Twitter.

Anyone in Edinburgh want an original XBox for free? Or shall I just bin it?

As part of the continuing "Get rid of shit we'll never use again." we're getting rid of the original XBox.

It's been soft-modded so that it has XBMC on it, so you can use it as a media centre. But it still plays XBox games just fine. It probably won't work online though, although I've never tried to do that.

Anyway, if you want it, and have some simple way of getting it from me to you, let me know, otherwise it's being binned.

EDIT: Gone to chuma.