Interesting Links for 15-01-2013

• UK government refuses to discuss how Independence might work.
  (tags: uk independence scotland )
• State pension: The overhaul and you
  (tags: pensions uk )
• Gender Roles and Homesexuality, some pretty big changes in their perception over the last twenty years.
  (tags: gender society lgbt women )
• Parkinson's Patients treated with dopamine-enhancing drugs are developing artistic talents
  (tags: art dopamine brains psychology )
• What Games Are: The Fun Boson Does Not Exist
  (tags: games fun design )
• HMV about to go under, leaving Amazon the only game in town.
  (tags: music business )
• Scientists spin carbon nanotube threads on industrial scale
  (tags: nanotechnology science )
• SF is dominated by old novels and media tie-ins. (And is a tiny part of the book market)
  (tags: viaJamesNicoll scifi books publishing )
• Is there good news in HMV's collapse?
  (tags: hmv business uk economics )
• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
  (tags: space design )
• Secret papers show extent of senior royals' veto over bills.
  (tags: royalty monarchy uk law )
• Tone in arguments matters - negative tone pushes people to retract to their established positions.
  (tags: discussion argument psychology )
• 'Insulting words' crime ditched (Labour, in their delightfully authoritarian way, want to keep it)
  (tags: freespeech uk law crime )

Things I learned today about C#

The code I've been writing to convert a list into a comma-delimited string that consists of:
var duckerBrothers = new List<string> { "Andy", "Mike", "Hugh" };
var output = string.Empty;
foreach (var duckerBrother in duckerBrothers)
{
if (output != string.Empty)
{
output += ", ";
}

output += duckerBrother;
}

Can be rewritten as:
var duckerBrothers = new List<string> { "Andy", "Mike", "Hugh" };
var output = string.Join(",", duckerBrothers);

That's what I get for assuming that there is no built-in way of doing things.