Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-16-2010

[andrewducker]

• Mindboggling Bridge Would Flip Traffic Lanes
  (tags: architecture roads china)
• Naked models, as seen through an X-Ray machine.
  (tags: naked bodies x-ray)
• The Day the Gaming Industry Died: Impressions from E3 2010
  (tags: gaming computer_games)
• Hail Storm in Oklahoma City - Jesus! We don't get hailstones that big in the UK!
  (tags: youtube weather)
• When Your Breast Shape Goes Out Of Style
  (tags: breasts playboy porn bodies)
• Mario Fantasies. NSFW. Well, it's all text. But still!
  (tags: mario sex)
• It looks like there were multiple waves of settlement of The Americas.
  (tags: America migration genetics)
• First case of an openly gay students being named King and Queen of the Prom in NY
  (tags: gay usa school)
• Edinburgh's Bus Tracker system to be extended to cover most of SE Scotland
  (tags: bus transport technology scotland edinburgh)
• 21-year-old has unrealistic expectations of treatment of women. News only because she's in Dr Who.
  (tags: DrWho feminism)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Not news: feminism dead. Generation drops the baton.

[andrewducker]

Not the whole generation. To be fair, she's 22, and if she hasn't encountered much in the way of unpleasant sexism then she's not going to be enlightened as yet. I had no idea about all sorts of feminist issues when I was her age. Or, indeed, a fair chunk older.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Or baton not handed over by previous generation.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting thought...

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Perhaps rejected for its phallocratic imagery.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Makes the 'real or fake' game a little less fun, mind you...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__XCWUd8FFjQ/TBeuugTKVjI/AAAAAAAAKR0/IgTWXvC7HHE/s1600/EIZO2.png

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

It's fun, but I strongly suspect the bridge is a joke-concept model at the very most.

Why ever would you build a bridge like that, instead of a much cheaper and safer conventional one across the water followed by a much cheaper and safer small flyover on land? Unless the land available on either side was so insanely constrained that this was in fact cheaper. Which given the location is not entirely improbable. Or a double-decker standard bridge would do the job with even less land take.

[andrewducker]

Where would the fun be in that?

[garunya.livejournal.com]

Yep, besides which there are already 4 road links between HK and Shenzhen, including a bridge over the bay which is decidedly simpler than that one.

Any road link between the two is going to have bottlenecks anyway, as there are two sets of immigration procedures to go through...

I could however see them doing something like this, in light of future increased traffic, just for the gimmick/postcard factor

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I have but one face and one palm and I find them entirely insufficient for expressing my feelings about the Cracked gaming article.

[matgb]

I have finally been hit by that outboundlink bollocks.

Your top link is on blogs.cars.com, but when I clicked it, I got to an affiliate offer page instead. Several attempts to reclick it. Can get there by copy/pasting, but not by following it from this post unless scripts are blocked.

That'll apply to a lot of people, including logged out users, etc. I thought I'd blocked the scrpit, apparently not.

[matgb]

Oh, for others affected, the Gizmodo story is just as good and shouldn't be affected:
http://gizmodo.com/5560466/is-this-the-craziest-bridge-ever-designed

[simont]

I don't know if you're generally interested in random suggestions for these links pages, but this amused me this morning.

[andrewducker]

I'm always up for random suggestions :->