Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-31-2010

[andrewducker]

• A recipe for unhappiness - Our workers are more educated, but our jobs require less intelligence.
  (tags: work jobs education)
• An alternative plan on housing
  (tags: housing uk politics)
• Man Built a Sanctuary for Homeless Cats. And by sanctuary I mean _city_.
  (tags: cats funny usa)
• Public sector job cuts to increase unemployment to 10%
  (tags: unemployment government uk)
• The Joys Of Incomplete Information. We won't see days like those again.
  (tags: childhood comics memories)
• A Hit Song on YouTube, Unnameable on the Radio
  (tags: music media censorship society)
• How Quake 2 was nearly developed on a Cray supercomputer
  (tags: software hardware games)
• Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed again
  (tags: dictionary books language technology)
• Drugs are fun. If we don't accept that, we can't even talk about them honestly.
  (tags: drugs society)

Comments

[andrewducker]

The problem is that "fun" and "fucks up your emotional balance and leaves you a mess" aren't necessarily contradictory, at least in the short term.

If we don't admit that people trying meth can actually enjoy it _for a short while_ then we can't really debate openly about it, is all.