Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-10-2010

[andrewducker]

• Wounds take longer to heal when you are anxious or stressed, study finds
  (tags: stress anxiety health)
• Twitter forcing universal URL shortening soon. This does not make me happy.
  (tags: twitter web2.0 url)
• Portal 2 pushed to 2011.
  Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
  (tags: portal valve)
• Genetic study sheds light on Jewish diaspora
  (tags: genetics Jews)
• Study identifies many more autism genes
  (tags: genetics autism)
• Joyce’s Ulysses Banned Again—by Apple, Not the Government
  (tags: JamesJoyce apple censorship Nudity)

Comments

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Wow, Apple just keep dropping new balls every day in the App Store.

So to speak.

The iPad is an absolutely gorgeous piece of technology, but I'm still not sure I want one, purely because of their censorship policies.

[andrewducker]

It does look lovely, doesn't it?

I can't justify buying one anyway, as I don't have that kind of spare cash, but even if I could, I wouldn't buy it with their current policies.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'd support a ban of Finnegan's Wake. Three months of my university study I'll never get back again.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Did you also see the Gawker report yesterday that the iPad is so insecure that with a few clicks a group was able to use one to get the email and IP addresses of 114,000 people including the head of DARPA and the White House Chief of Staff?

[yalovetz]

So I should stop worrying about how my recovery is progressing... ;)

[andrewducker]

That, so far as I can tell, what a hole in AT&T's security, not Apple's. Still pretty appalling, but not actually Apple's fault.

[andrewducker]

Yup :->

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

It's Apple's fault because they made everyone who bought an iPad in the United States get service from AT&T.

If a client comes to me for a writing job and I assign it to Rome Girl and then I deliver it to the client, if the client complains I don't say "Oh, Rome Girl did this" I say "I'm sorry Calendar Communications did not get the job done right."

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

What don't you like about twitter shortening?

I find it a terrible faff that tweeting on the web doesn't shorten for me.

[andrewducker]

I don't want it to be mandatory, because sometimes the name of the site you're linking to is actually part of the tweet. See my on from 7-ish last night about www.theittybittykittycommittee - where the tweet was about how cute the url was!

[broin.livejournal.com]

Here's an essay on the topic I enjoyed:

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html

One you missed

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8730106.stm

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Oh fair point.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, they're a pain for all those reasons. But twitter adding automation just makes it a bit less of a faff.

Re: One you missed

[andrewducker]

Wasn't that grabbed by it - is there something in particular you liked about it?

Re: One you missed

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

The double-bind created by modern manners and eating habits. People are leaving pregnant women standing for fear of accidentally insulting an overweight lady.

Re: One you missed

[andrewducker]

I didn't really see a double-bind. Anyone who says "Would you like my seat, unless you're a fatty." is clearly a dick. You can just offer the seat to the other person without saying "Are you pregnant?" first, if they look lik they could do with a seat more than you do.

More here:
http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/pregnant-or-fat/

[matgb]

True, but from your link, it looks like Twitter will be auto-expanding them back for web view, and presumably that'll be possible in the API as well.

I don't yet have an opinion, I currently use Bit.ly because it's easy, it gives me stats, and it's supported by clients I sometimes use.

But I'm not keen on the site, I'm not keen on any TLD in an unstable country.

I guess it depends on how implemented and what we, as end users, get out of it. If there's a nice little bookmarklet or similar that makes it work well, and if it auto expands for web/client view, then it could be better than current.

It could also be bloody awful.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I could live in a "Twitter-free" world.

[andrewducker]

I tend to scan it when waiting at the bus stop. I have a few friends who say interesting things, but by and large I'd rather they were doing so on Lj.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

I'll be much happier with auto-shortened URLs that tell me what they are than I am with the utterly opaque shortened URLs we have now, I have to say. And couldn't you still include that URL by just not including the http:// (and maybe also the www)?

[andrewducker]

Hmm. Depends on whether they do tell us what they are in a nice clear way. if they are then fair enough.

And I also wanted the URL to be clickable, which probably means leaving the http one.

Re: One you missed

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Still fraught with peril.
And yes, the chap cited was/is a dick.

Re: One you missed

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure that most fat women will take offence at being offered a seat, if it looks like they need it. I gave my seat to a (very) fat bloke a week or so back, and he seemed happy enough to get it.

You're never going to make _everyone_ happy. I think I feel a post coming on!