Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-30-2010

[andrewducker]

• Facebook is censoring marijuana-legalisation adverts
  (tags: advertising freespeech facebook censorship)
• Apple DNA code is cracked by geneticists - when does DNA decoding stop being news?
  (tags: genetics fruit apples science)
• A brief, and not entirely accurate, history of Europe, portrayed by cartoon blobs
  (tags: history europe comic)
• How people treat computers like people. The bit about Clippy is excellent
  (tags: psychology technology ui design)
• The price of Britain's disappearing wildlife
  (tags: nature uk)
• AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year
  (tags: amd ati branding marketing technology)
• Building a homebrew Cray-1A
  (tags: retro computers history cray)
• The next season of Dr Who will be split int two parts
  (tags: drwho tv)
• Regrets of the dying
  (tags: psychology health)

Comments

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I particularly liked the history of Europe in blobs - have just spent half an hour discussing it with my daughter who has just finished the history part of the Baccalaureate, and it really made us laugh.

Also - regrets of the dying - well worth reading

[andrewducker]

Glad you liked the history of Europe one. I have to admit that I only understood the earlier bits of the British chunk from playing Britannia (which spans 46BC to 1066)

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I like the way it emphasised Eastern Europe, with events which are presumably very meaningful in Russian history '15th C Ukraine and Belarus had a big fight' or whatever - means nothing to me. In the 2nd World War England is reduced to poking Hitler in the bum, as he fights Russia.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Facebook can censor what they like surely!

[andrewducker]

Of course they can. And people can raise petitions about what they like, and attempt to cause negative publicity for Facebook.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I was fascinated by "How people treat computers like people." I particuarly liked the bits about the "specialist" TVs. I bet if a TV marketer reads this article, in a couple months (in time for Xmas?) we'll see "Optimized for sports" or "optimized for games" on big screen TVs. I'm surprised we don't already.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

when does DNA decoding stop being news?

I guess this is the first fruit they've done, and the timing of the whole genome duplication is nice, but it's already down to Nature Genetics instead of Nature, and I suspect that we are very close to new genomes not being news unless they find something really interesting, as opposed to just doing them.

Personally I got bored about the time they did the giant panda.

[andrewducker]

Now, if they were modding it to be a giant _fire-breathing_ panda, that would be news.

[simont]

Apple DNA code is cracked by geneticists

Is it bad that I thought "... and they discovered it didn't have the gene for running Flash"?