Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-18-2010

[andrewducker]

• Booze makes you clever
  (tags: alcohol intelligence)
• GPs could spot patients at risk of benefit dependency. It would be nice if they got help earlier. That might cost money though...
  (tags: mental_health health stress nhs)
• Best discussion I've seen recently of Penny Arcade using rape in one of their comics
  (tags: rape media comics humour)
• Cobra Mk IIII for sale. Comes with fuel scoop and pulse lasers.
  (tags: computer_games funny)
• Ex US Envoy says that Israel has 8 days to destroy Iran's nuclear reactor
  (tags: iran israel usa)
• Afghanistan discovers 1.8 bln barrel oilfield. This should be...interesting.
  (tags: oil afghanistan)
• Why the NHS £65bn PFI cost may be a good deal. Anyone got any better figures?
  (tags: nhs finance uk)
• The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet!
  (tags: internet web2.0 future technology)
• An iPhone app to split universes
  (tags: iphone physics funny)

Comments

[matgb]

I wanna Cobra. Actually, I want a Fer De Lance, or possibly a Mussurana, but, y'know, a Cobra'd be cool.
http://www.oolite.org/

[andrewducker]

Oooh. I should have realised there'd be a free implentation out there!

[matgb]

Coded by aegidian, randomly I started playing it a few days before a LD Conf where I met lizw for the first time, they're married.

But yes, rather cool implementation, keep meaning to write it up, but, y'know. If you start playing it, I recommend all the Neolite ship OXPs as a good start, nicely balanced and much better graphics.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Very, very strange coincidence; I downloaded Oolite just last weekend. Haven't tried it yet, though.

-- Steve's amused at the idea of playing "Elite" on his Core i7 desktop. It feels like hitching a thoroughbred to a Little Red Wagon.

[matgb]

I first found it about a year ago, there was some discussion linked to the Bradford media museum opening a section on games about what the best game ever was, someone linked me to an article on Elite and that pretty much sold me completely.

I haven't played for a few weeks now (back to the original Starcraft), but when I'm in the mood, it really is good fun; this machine is below the min spec (just) for Eve, and I coulnd't afford it anyway, and I like being able to fiddle with the backend (some of the ship prices in the shipyard seem very off to me, for example), may even make up my own ship sometime, if I can figure out the graphics side.

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

According to the graph in the wired article DNS died completely in 1995.

Do you think we should explain that RSS comes over http, as does most of the iPad content?

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

"A study, led by a team at Glasgow University, showed the frequency of GP visits by patients rose significantly prior to the [incapacity] benefit claim [on mental health grounds] being made."

Next week on "proving the pretty obvious": our intrepid researchers discover that lots of people claiming JSA had lost their job shortly before the claim being made.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> An iPhone app to split universes

Hmm wouldn't a coin toss do?

[andrewducker]

Yes. But then you wouldn't be using your iPhone, would you?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

iPhone coin toss app?

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

iPhone eliminates the chances of it coming down on its edge.

[andrewducker]

What would we do without Steve Jobs?

[broin.livejournal.com]

I read the previous Geek Feminist post. Dickwolf analysis via Pavlov. Now that's satire.

[andrewducker]

I find the GeekFeminist stuff fascinating. I agree with a chunk of stuff, but don't go nearly as far as they do a lot of the time.