Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-5-2010

[andrewducker]

• The quiet life in a child-free village. Is this actually legal under age-discrimination laws?
  (tags: age uk housing)
• BBC Trust rejects plan to close 6 Music
  (tags: radio music uk)
• Polling on AV: what works, what doesn’t
  (tags: politics voting uk)
• How to Undermine a Body-Acceptance Message
  (tags: body gender marketing weight)
• Scarlett Johansson - The Skinny
  (tags: health nutrition diet bodyimage scarlettjohansson fitness eatingdisorders)
• The Modern Toilet Restaurant. I'm not sure there's any way to have that name make sense.
  (tags: fun toilets taiwan restaurant design)
• Elizabeth Bear on The Future Of Science Fiction
  (tags: scifi writing future)
• A good reason to be scared of swimming - you might encounter a Bengali White Tiger
  (tags: animals nature photography tiger cats photo)
• Spark of multicellular life two billion years old - much older than 600million previously thought.
  (tags: lfe biology evolution)

Comments

[drplokta]

Age discrimination laws are not as wide-ranging as race/religion/gender/sexual orientation discrimination, and only apply to employment, as far as I know. It's perfectly legal to refuse to do business with someone because of their age.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, that makes sense. Thanks!

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Are conditions attached to property deeds enforcable? What would happen if say a woman bought one of those houses, then at some point in the future became pregnant and had a child. Could the other residents actually petition a court to have her forcibly evicted?

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Technically yes, although you might end up with the Court deciding that the covenant was unenforceable on grounds of public policy.

I think the 'minimum age 45' clause is aimed at this although of course with modern medical technology that is not such an obstacle.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

The child-free village is interesting. I've often wondered what would happen if we lived in categorised towns, and I imagine it would lead to increased insular views... although part of it does appeal to me...

The village I grew up in, closed it's school. There are very few children now, and most of the old people feel sad about this, because they think it brought a bit of life to the place. However, I think the majority of people who said that have detached houses with private gardens. If they had flats or terraced housing, they might feel different ;)

[supergee.livejournal.com]

In the 1970s I joined the National Association of Non-Parents. It later changed its name to National Association for Optional Parenthood, and a few years later it joined a crusade against childfree housing. I have never seen a better illustration of Santayana's line about redoubling efforts and losing sight of goals.

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Those photos of the swimming tiger are brilliant - the first ones I've seen where the tiger's face actually looks just like a Chinese statue of a tiger. :)

[darkoshi]

My grandparents in California bought their house in a retirement community like the first one mentioned, with a minimum age limit, and children not allowed except for visits. The ambiance was very peaceful; walking along the streets, it was mostly quiet except for wind-chimes here and there.