Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Oakland green lights industrial marijuana cultivation
  (tags: marijuana drugs)
• Why not censorship?
  (tags: freespeech censorship)
• I didn't know Conversation had rules!
  (tags: conversation communication psychology aspergers)
• The Gender Stereotype Game
  (tags: gender stereotypes)
• Scots drink a quarter more alcohol than other Brits
  (tags: alcohol uk scotland)
• A screenwriter has a very strange encounter, and writes the best blog post I've read this year.
  (tags: writing crime reality)
• Entanglement - a simple, but addictive, HTML5 game
  (tags: games javascript puzzles)
• Sharp launches world first Android netbook -kinda.
  (tags: Telephone android)
• PressThink: Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion.
  (tags: journalism ethics media bias news)
• Scottish rents rise as home buyers opt to rent
  The best performing city in Scotland is Edinburgh, where the average rent for a one bed flat in the city now stands at £520 - a rise of 3.2% compared with last year - while the average cost for a two-bedroom flat has risen 4.6% to £680.
  (tags: scotland housing)
• The differences between Civil Partnerships and Marriage.
  (tags: marriage law)
• SNP to outlaw smutty innuendo. They can fuck off.
  (tags: sex freespeech scotland EpicFail)
• Sony files patent on using stereoscopic lenses to allow two people to share a screen without seeing what the other does.
  (tags: 3d technology games)
• The former head of MI5 says that the invasion of Iraq substantially increased the terrorist threat to the UK.
  (tags: terrorism uk war iraq)

Comments

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

And this is one of the reasons I suggest that those of my friends who advocate Scottish independence think carefully. Do they really want to be governed by a coalition of humourless hard-line socialists who search out and suppress any evidence of enjoyment and humourless religious conservatives who search out and suppress any evidence of enjoyment? Because that's my take on the strange cross-party undercurrent of Puritanism that runs through much of Scottish politics.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Edinburgh rents aren't helped by buyers snapping up the slightly cheaper HMOs and reconverting them to private residences... ho hum...

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Entanglement seems pretty fun! I just scored 89.

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

screenwriter

rofl

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I had two marriage ceremonies, one civil and one full-out wedding. They were very different in a whole myriad of ways ranging from the blatant to the subtle, and the experience of being married too. Civil partnerships and marriages are pretty damn different critters.

AUGH I want more resolution for the screenwriter story. AUGH. What a well-written thing.

*really dislikes the SNP*

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

rules of conversation - like lots of things I think I learned this via how to be a good date, but soon realised, like most things about being a good date, you should just apply it to everything - i.e. if you want to be a good date, listen, ask her questions, be interested, show interest. That makes you a good date. You can also do this with people you aren't trying to score with, and it makes you a nice person to talk to.

I don't know if I always succeed at this however..

[usmu.livejournal.com]

Concerning Why not censorship:

The funny thing for me is that the writer of the piece undermines her own argument. She's for banning trolls: "That someone has a right to say whatever they want doesn't mean they're entitled to an audience. No one has a right to commandeer this audience that Jesse, Pam, and I (and our gracious commenting community) built up to have certain discussions. We're no more obligated to print some troll's nonsense than Random House is obliged to publish it."

This argument could be used to provide a similar argument for large scale censorship. Change "this audience" with society and "Jesse, Pam, and I" with government, or other forms of community and or power structures and there you have it. Typical case of having your cake and eating it.