Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-11-2010

[andrewducker]

• ADD and medication, a rant
  (tags: ADD medication psychology)
• Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist
  (tags: research psychology motivation)
• Rock Band 3 keyboard revealed, looks like a keyboard!
  (tags: gaming rockband)
• SCOs case against Novell (and Linux) is finally over. SCO lost. Shockingly.
  I've been watching this one since 2004!
  (tags: law unix copyright ibm linux)
• World's largest USB cable discovered in Australia
  (tags: australia usb google maps funny)
• Teacher Fired for Having Premarital Sex
  (tags: religion sex usa EpicFail)
• What It Is Good For? A short story
  (tags: satire nanotech Singularity fiction sf)
• Purity in Language
  (tags: language sexism satire gender feminism racism)
• Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law.
  (tags: gay usa marriage)
• Star Wars Corsets
  (tags: cosplay fashion star_wars)
• As much oil as has polluted the Mexican Gulf is spilled into the Niger Delta every year. Of course, that's not news...
  (tags: oil nigeria environment africa pollution politics ecology energy)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Darnit, meant to link "The Seven Rules for Perfect Social Situations", which I wrote last night:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2081019.html

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Dude, I can already play piano. I want a cowbell!

[andrewducker]

Dude! You can already play _guitar_!

[andrewducker]

Also, I totally haven't watched the video yet, what with being at work and all.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I play guitar better on Rock Band.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

And yay, that Hoftstadter essay is awesome. Disconcerting, as it's meant to be. Also about 20 years old, but nonetheless worth drawing to more people's attention, because it's still very relevant...

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

That Google maps image is fascinating. I had no idea what it was, turns out it is a wind farm.

[andrewducker]

You'll probably play keyboard better too - if they've simplified it as much as they'll probably have to, anyway.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Also:
ADD and medication, a rant
Good article. Lots of food for thought.

I liked the pie charts.

[andrewducker]

I liked them too. I've been doing a chunk of reading about ADD recently, for obvious reasons :->

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I remember Hosftadter thinking a lot about it in the Metamagical Themas articles, I was curious to see how it held up, both to people generally, and to me personally. Most essays about X-ism written twenty years ago -- especially by a mathematician, mathematicians not always known for being the most socially deft -- I would expect to cringe at, but here I was surprised to find it still seemed to hold up. I was pleased it did, and pleased we'd made a lot of progress in the last 20 years, but sad the problems in the essay were still there.

(And, come to think of it, I am slightly more aware about how people who were concerned about racism might have seen it. I think it's totally clear he's saying racism is BAD, but I might understand that some people might still be made very uncomfortable by talking about it)