Interesting Links for 13-02-2015

• http2 explained
  (tags: http network internet web technology )
• The best ways to categorise books
  (tags: books )
• VOTERS demand clarification after being told that whoever they vote for they are actually voting for someone else.
  (tags: fptp satire politics )
• W3C announces 1 in 20 sentences on the web will be advertising
  (tags: Twitter web advertising satire )
• When Doctors can't spend money in a way that would really help their patients
  (tags: doctors depression money healthcare )
• This is the best dating profile _ever_. I would totally be up for this, and I'm married!
  (tags: relationships dating dogs )
• I'm Brianna Wu, And I'm Risking My Life Standing Up To Gamergate
  (tags: games abuse )
• How enforcing your boundaries helps the people around you
  (tags: relationships boundaries )
• Never Going To Give You Up, slowed down 800% (not at all what I expected!)
  (tags: music funny )
• The King That Might Have Returned: Five Actors Who Almost Played Aragorn in Lord of the Rings
  (tags: lotr )
• Why Scots should worry about their national identity scheme
  (tags: Scotland identity surveillance )
• 50 Shades of Grey: Protect Britain's women from this sick filth!
  (tags: abuse women fantasy fiction )
• FDA inspections: Fraud, fabrication, and scientific misconduct are hidden from the public and doctors.
  (tags: drugs regulation fraud usa )

Things that annoy me #511453

A friend: Posts something that is technical, or on a subject that they, and some of their friends, have specific, deep domain knowledge of.
Someone else: "Speak English! LOL!"

Pisses me off, every single time. If people are having a conversation, and you're not educated enough in the topic to contribute usefully, then either ask useful questions to educate yourself, or keep quiet until a conversation comes along that you _can_ take part in.

Leaping in with "I don't understand complicated things, but still feel that the conversation should be all about me." is annoying, childish, and was mildly funny the first time I encountered it, 30-odd years ago.

Oh God, I'm a grumpy old man.