Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-24-2010

[andrewducker]

• Uncovered: Britain's secret rendition programme
  (tags: rendition secret terrorism torture uk)
• Windows Phone 7 a disaster. Shame, we could do with more competition.
  (tags: microsoft phone windows mobile)
• The right-wing of the Conservative party are feeling disenfranchised. Evidence that the Lib-Dems are a good influence...
  (tags: politics uk conservatives libdem)
• Whale lands on yacht. Yacht not happy. Cool video though.
  (tags: whales boats video)
• Last Kodachrome roll processed
  (tags: photography kodak chemistry history nostalgia)
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - the truth about one of the world's most dangerous chemicals
  (tags: science funny parody chemistry)
• 'Eternal plane' returns to Earth
  (tags: solarpower airplanes)
• Lib Dem MP Tim Farron attacks 'toxic Tories' - oh, thank fuck they're starting to put some distance between them.
  (tags: politics uk libdem conservatives)
• A look at Penrose's argument on why machines can't think
  (tags: ai consciousness discussion philosophy mind penrose physics)
• Serotonin cell discoveries mean rethink of depression
  (tags: drugs brain depression serotonin)
• Is there anywhere left for the Higgs boson to hide?
  (tags: science physics Higgs)
• Men eat meat, women eat chocolate: How food gets gendered
  (tags: food gender stereotypes)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Re: Penrose. I like the teleportation machine experiment. And I am firmly in the camp that would absolutely NOT step into it!

[andrewducker]

Well, yeah :->

Any experiment in which step 3 is "shoot subject in the back of the head" is going to have problems getting past the ethics committee :->

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Well they're putting it that way to get an emotional reaction. Some versions, the original version of you is just vapourized by the copying process or somesuch.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Wow, I remember getting a gag email forward about dihydrogen monoxide back in high school, something like fifteen years ago...heh. That made me laugh for a week. I still prefer to call water that.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

That website had been around since the mid-90s at least...