Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-8-2010

[andrewducker]

• Dyer's Burgers - using the same grease since 1912.
  Mmmmmmmmm. Burgers.....
  (tags: food)
• School for Disabled Forces Students to Wear Backpacks That Deliver Massive Electric Shocks
  (tags: rights disabilities torture EpicFail)
• Babies make moral judgements
  (tags: psychology babies parenting cognition)
• Lessons from New Zealand in art of coalition building
  (tags: politics uk newzealand)
• My favourite theory about the most recent episode of Dr Who (the second Angels one)
  (tags: drwho spoilers)
• Did you know you can't be a Catholic Priest if you're coeliac?
  (tags: christianity religion wtf catholicism)
• Dancing and autism
  (tags: autism dance)

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I've heard that theory about the Doctor in that episode too, and deeply love it.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

So the gluten-containing product (wafer) doesn't actually transform into a non-gluten containing one (blood) then. I'm shocked ;-)

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

::snicker:: They definitely aren't using the same oil they were using in 1912. I'm guessing they stumbled across the amazing secret that absolutely tons of greasy dive diners use across the world! They probably dope the new oil with a bunch of the old oil, which does something weird to maintain the oil's aged characteristic. I gather it's similar to keeping a batch of sourdough alive. Sure, there's a bakery that has a batch of sourdough that's been alive since the time of Napoleon, but it's really more accurate to say that it's the great great super great grandkid of the original culture.

[soon_lee]

Re:elections.

Several commentators on the election coverage have said that the UK would never cope with a proportional system; so ingrained into their DNA is the adversarial FPP system that they'd never be able to work with their opponents. Bollocks to that I say.

The same argument was trotted out when NZ went proportional. And yes, the change didn't happen overnight. In fact, the post the 1996 elections, it was weeks of negotiations before a new government was formed. Initial fears of "No one is in power!" dropped off when the sky didn't fall down. Many wags at the time observed that the country was doing better without the politicians. But, it didn't take long for everyone to work out a modus vivendi.

[andrewducker]

Well, exactly. People learn to cope, and discover the advantages and disadvantages of the new way of working.