Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-29-2010

[andrewducker]

• The problem with the redistricting proposals in the current bill
  (tags: politics uk)
• Iterative Algorithmic Plastic Sculpture: Fimo Fractals. Someone fancy making me one of these?
  (tags: art math fractal)
• BSkyB buys complete HBO TV catalogue
  (tags: sky business tv)
• Fixed retirement age to be axed
  (tags: ageism politics uk)
• The Heterosexual Questionnaire
  (tags: heterosexuality satire society)
• "It'll Be Fun!" and Other Extrovert Lies
  (tags: psychology extroversion introversion)
• WiFi Kindle only £109 in the UK. If only the DX had a similar price fall.
  (tags: ebooks amazon)
• State pension is not enough to live on, minister admits
  (tags: pension uk)
• Amazon to Unveil $139 Kindle Wi-Fi
  (tags: ebooks amazon)
• John Scalzi puts some recent Sci-Fi movies to the Bechdel Test, with unsurprising results
  (tags: feminism character movies scifi)
• Choice fetish spawns mind-meltingly stupid homeopathy policy for the NHS
  (tags: homeopathy nhs EpicFail uk)
• The US has lost 96% of the $9billion spent on the reconstruction of Iraq
  (tags: iraq usa EpicFail)
• James Cameron, del Toro collaborating on 3-D Lovecraft film
  (tags: hplovecraft DelToro JamesCameron)
• Super Donut : The world's healthiest microwavable donut.
  (tags: food wtf)
• WookieLeaks
  (tags: funny star_wars twitter)
• A very impressive penis tattoo. Ow. Ow ow ow.
  (tags: tattoo nsfw)
• Why Huxley's vision of the future was more accurate than Orwell's
  (tags: orwell huxley government culture politics comics)
• Early Learning Centre in Gender Stereotyping Fail
  (tags: gender stereotypes AndrewDucker)
• New Scottish campaign aims to cut hate crime
  (tags: crime bigotry scotland)

Comments

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Questions 4 and 20 are pretty much the same question.

[innerbrat]

And yet people feel the need to ask them both of queer people.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Yes.

And questions along the lines of 12 with statistics pretty much overheard from some random conversation on a bus. "I heard gays are 95% more likely to...". Yeah right.

[innerbrat]

I don't even think that ending that sentence with "...have sexual relations with people of the same sex or gender" would make that figure accurate.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Heheh! Coffee/nose/monitor incident!

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

The Orwell/Huxley link is pretty scary.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I have an original Kindle, and I don't think I'd want a DX - it wouldn't fit in my coat pocket, and I think it would be difficult to read it one-handed on the Tube, which I can do with the original. I'm tempted by the revamped WiFi, though!

[andrewducker]

It could be just the formatting on the stuff I've read so far, but I tend to be reading things designed for larger-than-paperback sized screens, and they don't flow so well on a smaller screen.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I think Inception probably fails the Bechdel, though I was pleasantly struck with how neither of the two female characters got used as eye candy.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

That the government acknowledges homeopathy doesn't work, yet is still recommending the NHS continue to provide access to homeopathy is probably the craziest thing I have ever heard.

I fear Cameron's "big society" idea. The idea of giving people more say in, and actually being responsible for running public services sounds good on paper, but has a fundamental weakness IMHO. I fear many people will prove incapable of making sensible, strategic choices.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

This is entirely your fault.