Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• The Acceleration of Addictiveness
  (tags: superstimuli addiction psychology culture internet technology acceleration)
• Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization
  (tags: psychology economics evolution games superstimuli)
• Four in 10 Lib Dem voters reject coalition
  (tags: coalition conservatives government uk libdem)
• Online Ad Campaign doubled Old Spice sales
  (tags: marketing video cool)
• 2/3 of all contract phones are now smartphones (up from 40%)
  (tags: phones technology uk)
• In praise of speed cameras
  (tags: driving politics uk)
• The World Is Meaningless. You Are Free
  (tags: atheism meaning poster)
• A List of common misconceptions
  (tags: wikipedia interesting trivia misconceptions)
• Warren Ellis and Joss Whedon to collaborate. Eventually.
  (tags: WarrenEllis joss_whedon)
• US Soldiers wanting to claim Conscientious Objector Status rather than serve with openly gay soldiers.
  (tags: military usa lgbt homophobia)
• Ferrett Steinmetz, Cartoon P.I.
  (tags: funny disneyland disney)
• Intel was paying Dell massive amounts of money to shun AMD, Dell was making fraudulent claims about it.
  (tags: amd intel dell computers fraud)
• UK Film Council to be abolished
  (tags: uk film government)
• Formula milk propaganda found in science exam questions
  (tags: feminism science milk propaganda)
• Agents expelled from the US join Putin for a patriotic singalong
  (tags: funny russia)
• If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
  (tags: religion politics culture liberty islam burqa davidmitchell freedom uk)

Comments

[innerbrat]

I agree with Mr. Mitchell; I definitely might start wearing a burqa if it were made illegal.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

This probably belongs on your list.

[andrewducker]

Done!

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I think Facebook and Apple are in a death match to see which company can get the worst publicity possible.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I love that "You are free" poster. Yeah!

[dreema.livejournal.com]

Wonder if the burqa banning will mean Top Gear will have to reveal the face of the Stig.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

David Mitchell:

> Walking around with a tattoo is like perpetually screaming: "I should not of done this!" at the top of your voice.

Ha ha ha. But 'sic' needed, surely? ;)

I dunno about the burqa ban though. How else are you going to stop women being coerced into wearing it?

[andrewducker]

By prosecuting people who are found to coerce women into wearing it?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yes, that occurred to me as I was writing the comment. Bit harder to pinpoint though -- not being harder is any reason not to take a better option of course.

[andrewducker]

Also, I just flat-out disapprove of telling people what to wear. The state has no business telling me, you, or anyone else whether they can wear a burqua. If this means that some people wear clothes I disapprove of, then that's part of living in a tolerant society. God knows I've worn enough offensive things in my time :->

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

But the state already tells us what not to wear.

[andrewducker]

Really? It tells you you have to wear something, but that's about it.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It tells you to wear something.

And for that matter, things that aren't the state tell you what to wear. They're called employers. And things that are run by the state tell kids what to wear.

[andrewducker]

Kids are a special case - and even then many schools have no dress policy - and employers are free agents. Some tell you what to wear, some don't. Individuals and groups are free to make their own choices about what's acceptable for them.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Although, while I'm very fuzzy on the actual legal situation, even that is fuzzy.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I mean, it's possible that there's a sufficient problem, in Western Europe, with people being coerced (personally or by societal expectation) into wearing a burqa that explicitly banning it would help. But no-one ever seems to talk about that: what I hear is not Muslim women calling for a ban, but xenophobes calling for a ban. Which doesn't incline me to expect it to be a good idea.

It's like, I'm no expert, and there's probably a problem, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence that the solution has, you know, anything to do with the problem.

Re Formula milk propaganda found in science exam questions

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

The real worry is why questions that involve some English comprehension and some awareness of social and political issues but no understanding of scientific principles or knowledge of scientific facts appear in a science exam.

Dear old NCT ... never missing an opportunity to grind the point home.

[meico.livejournal.com]

"The World Is Meaningless. You Are Free"

That poster makes me happy. :)