Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-4-2010

[andrewducker]

• Greatest real-life superhero wedding EVER
  (tags: superheroes wedding EpicWin)
• The LibDem/Conservative Coalition Three Months On
  (tags: uk politics libdem conservatives)
• Amazing images melding modern photographs and WWII ones together.
  (tags: photography history ww2 photoshop photos war)
• Happy extroverts are more creative
  (tags: mood emotion creativity personality psychology)
• Dominic Lawson: Our banks are doing a good job
  (tags: banking uk business)

Comments

[innerbrat]

Goddammit, Independent. You can't use a comparative term like 'more creative' without specifying what you're comparing it to. The word 'than' appears twice in the article, and implies "happy extroverts are more creative than all introverts", but then it doesn't bother to clarify. Are introverts not variable in their creativity? Are unhappy extroverts the least creative of all?

DETAILS, PEOPLE.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

But at least they gave a clear link to the original paper which covers all this, rather than publishing on the basis of a press release before the research has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Errr ....

[matgb]

in the U.K. city of Paignton, Devon

City? City?

Small town FFS. Or "suburb of Torquay". But not city.

Was born there. My Dad used to work in the office behind that large window for the crowd shot, learnt to play corquet on the lawn where the cameraman was stood. Council's selling it off to be a hotel...

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

That's just a US/UK language difference. Holly comes from the 'city' of New Richland, and that has a population of 1174 (23 fewer than at the 2000 census...) - http://www.cityofnewrichlandmn.com/

[matgb]

So when they talk about "small town America", what are they referring to, hamlets? Or are towns and cities synonyms or something?

I get that having city as a conferred status that you have to earn from outside authority is a bit daft, but calling any little village a city just because that's what they like is also daft.

OTOH, when the US was founded, the 'city' of Exeter had a smaller population than small town Paignton has today, by a fact of about 3.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Oh I agree, and it's something I make fun of Holly for often. Looking at Wikipedia, the definition varies from State to State and is to do with incorporated status - apparently there was until 2002 a 'city' with 5 people, while there are 'towns' with over three-quarters of a million... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City#United_States

[matgb]

Ah, so it is mostly to do with actual powers granted and the system of governance used. OK.

In which case, Paignton isn't a city by any definition whatsoever, doesn't even have its own town council. Stoopid Americans, use their own terminology and still get it wrong...