Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-8-2010

[andrewducker]

• One third of Brits are gamers - both men and women
  (tags: gaming statistics)
• The results of interviews with 983 gamers - ‘Girls like to game, but games are not well tuned to their interests.’
  (tags: gaming games gender)
• BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act
  (tags: bt government technology uk internet)
• Getting out in nature is apparently good for you. I'm shocked!
  A study of 280 healthy people in Japan, where visiting nature parks for therapeutic effect has become a popular practice called 'Shinrin-yoku,' or 'forest bathing,' found that being among plants produced 'lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, and lower blood pressure,' among other things. Another study in 2007 showed that men who took two-hour walks in a forest over two days had a 50-percent spike in levels of natural killer cells, and a third study found an increase in white blood cells that lasted for a week in women exposed to phytoncides in forest air."
  (tags: health nature)
• A lovely story of a rescued pigeon
  (tags: pigeon birds)
• Exposure to Plants and Parks Can Boost Immunity
  (tags: health nature immune_system)
• A very odd case. One where I doubt the truth will ever be known
  (tags: law abuse uk odd)
• Doctor Suing For Bad Ratings Online - apparently unaware of Streisand Effect
  (tags: medicine internet law EpicFail)
• Ofcom, Sky and the Government. Things are not looking good.
  (tags: regulation media uk news reporting)
• Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?
  I'm intrgued by this idea
  (tags: social money socialmedia business commercial interesting flattr micropayments)
• Analogue TVs no longer sold by UK retailers
  (tags: tv digital technology)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Jim Watts story - Scary stuff. It's not so much that he could be innocent - I mean, that's awful but equally, maybe he did it. It's the fact that the conviction seems so unsafe. The idea that he could be put away for so long on such controversial evidence is quite terrifying. Also, it's interesting how this matches up against rape cases involving women who can be trusted to understand the evidence they're giving...

Flattr, on the surface of it, sounds awesome. I really hope it takes off.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. I have no idea if he's guilty - I do know that the evidence seems completely unusuable from what that report says.

And yeah - I love the idea of having a fixed amount to donate, and then sprinkling it around people. If you're required to have a Flattr account to access a site, then that will encourage people to get them, and then you can choose whether or not to give other people a chunk of your change each month.