Interesting Links for 08-03-2015

• Security: Toddler vs Phone Lock
  (tags: phones children viaDrDoug )
• Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone
  (tags: jobs drugs crime )
• Mindfulness stress reduction may reduce fasting glucose in overweight and obese women
  (tags: glucose obesity weight stress mindfulness )
• The future of 999
  (tags: police emergency phones communication )
• Scottish Labour referring to the Scottish First Minister as a "Wee lassie with a tin helmet on"
  (tags: Labour Scotland OhForFucksSake )
• Ants! On! Stilts! (For! Science!)
  (tags: ants science )
• The Single Biggest Reason I’m Still A Lib Dem
  (tags: politics voting reform libdem uk )
• Gwyneth Paltrow is right: there is a "secret organ" you've been ignoring
  (tags: organs )
• Yacouba Sawadogo - The Man Who Stopped the Desert
  (tags: desert environment trees )
• Flexbox in 5 minutes (nearer 15, but well worth it)
  (tags: web tutorial design css )
• Company Growth: Why everything breaks at 25 employees
  (tags: business growth communication change )
• A meditation on chronic pain
  (tags: pain )
• Octopus steals camera, takes photo of researcher
  (tags: octopus )

I want one of these keyboards

"TextBlade Demo: Real Keys. Magically Smarter." (Watch on YouTube)

Not _quite_ enough to fork out cash up front. But if they hit the mainstream, and the reviews are good, then I'm very very tempted.

(Swype is staggeringly better than ordinary phone keyboards. And they were better than T9 keyboards from earlier mobile phones. But none of them come close to having a physical QWERTY keyboard.)

As a recommendation for _that_ video, Facebook pointed me towards this one, of cool upcoming tech products:

"Top 20 awesome products for late winter 2015" (Watch on YouTube)

Many of which look a bit silly, but some of them look actively worthwhile. I'm looking forward to finding out how well the HoloLens works. And that table looks pretty cool.

The Daily Mail has very odd ideas about how much porn is a lot

Now, admittedly, this comes from Julie seeing a Daily Mail headline*. But they were amazed enough at a woman for watching 400 HOURS of porn that they capitalised it like that.

This was over 7 years. So I did 30 seconds of maths, and that's 65 minutes of porn per week. Or 16 minutes four times per week.

Which seems, to be honest, an entirely reasonable amount of porn for anyone to be watching. Certainly not a level which should have people worrying about porn addiction.

They then go on to say that she sometimes masturbated between five and six times per day. Which would be, say, 38 times per week. That's 2,000 times per year. Or 14,000 times over the whole seven years. Which means that she was watching about 1.7 seconds each time. Which, frankly, doesn't seem like enough to get someone turned on, even if it's _really_ good porn.

I'm going to assume that the journalist is really rubbish at maths. Seems like the safest assumption.


*Don't ask.