Interesting Links for 24-01-2015

• We do not have a proportional voting system, something a lot of people find strangely hard to fathom
  (tags: politics voting )
• I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love.
  (tags: relationships internet funny )
• Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others
  (tags: efficiency intelligence effectiveness work teams )
• Poor boys fare worse in rich areas
  (tags: children inequality behaviour )
• Parents' Belief That a Child Will Attend College Plays Big Role in Early Academic Success
  (tags: academia parenting )
• New brain pathway offers hope for treating hypogylcemia
  (tags: sugar brain )
• Wikipedia bans feminists from updating articles about Gamergate or feminism.
  (tags: wikipedia feminism games )
• Some very worrying figures on whether Britain would accept a Jewish Prime Minister.
  (tags: Jews UK politics racism )
• Vanderbilt Woman Didn't Think She'd Been Raped Until She Saw Video Of It
  (tags: rape USA OhForFucksSake )

A new level of archery

"Lars Andersen: a new level of archery" (Watch on YouTube)

Amazingly impressive.

There should be an app for that: restaurant edition

1) I know that some pub chains are looking into apps that will allow you to order food/drinks to your table, which would then free up some of their bar staff (or, presumably, allow them to get by with less of them)
2) Pretty much every time I'm in a restaurant with a large group of people, the waiter arrives with food and stands there going "Haddock? Haddock? Whose is the haddock? Did someone at this table order haddock?" until eventually someone deep in conversation realises that their haddock has arrived.
3) Pretty much every time that I go to a restaurant and we don't split the bill equally, we end up spending ages going over the bill, working out who ordered what, forgetting who had which starters, or drinks before other people arrived, adding on tips for everyone, etc.

This leads me to think that one of the vital bits of functionality for a restaurant/ordering application is the ability to say who ordered what.

That way:
A) When the food arrives, the waiter can say "Haddock for Bob. Which of you talkative scumbags is Bob?"
B) At the end of the meal, the app can tell everyone exactly what they owe, avoiding the situation where everyone denies having ordered that bottle of Red that's sitting there on the bill.