Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-15-2010

[andrewducker]

• Motorola Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it
  (tags: android security motorola hacks)
• India Facebook users urged to appear whiter
  (tags: india makeup facebook)
• PC Zone magazine is to shut after 17 years
  Alas. It's where I first encountered the writing of Charlie Brooker. I loved it.
  (tags: magazines uk computers pc gaming)
• President of the International Music Managers' Forum: preventing file-sharing is a waste of time.
  (tags: copyright filesharing law music p2p uk)
• Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High. (Are we sure this isn't an episode of Brasseye)
  (tags: drugs digital music weird)
• A poll on the most pressing question of our time - Who would win - Jeeves or Batman?
  (tags: batman jeeves poll funny)
• UK unmanned solar plan set for 2 week flight
  (tags: solarpower flight military)

Comments

[andrewducker]

India's caste system is hereditary, and is at least partially racial, because the higher castes are more descended from Aryan invaders.

"20%-30% of Indian mtDNA haplotypes belong to West Eurasian haplogroups, and the frequency of these haplotypes is proportional to caste rank, the highest frequency of West Eurasian haplotypes being found in the upper castes."

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is true. The colonial system manages to fuck with my pet theories. I knew there was a reason I didn't like it.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, another thing I just thought of - a friend of mine worked out in the Maldives, and there was a definite hierarchy of white people->Indians->Afrians, with people lower on the hierarchy trying to emulate those further up, through dress, mannerisms, and where possible colour.