Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-24-2010

[andrewducker]

• Harlan Ellison says he's dying, plans last convention appearance
  (tags: Harlan Ellison scifi conventions)
• Boys adopting macho behaviours from superhero role models have worse psychological health
  (tags: education masculinity superhero psychology)
• Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle
  (tags: java interview oracle sun)
• Fake Twitter bus account confuses passengers. I love this!
  (tags: buses transport funny satire)
• Man eating giant squid devouring fish stocks. Unusually, the comments better than the article. Awesome headline though.
  (tags: squid awesome)
• Political parties claim that we need to make weapons, for the sake of the workers. I am aghast.
  (tags: EpicStupidity military politics uk)
• The Royal Mail: A hedge fund that delivers letters
  (tags: investment pension royalmail uk)
• She Geek: Women and Self-Labeling in Online Geek Communities
  (tags: geek women feminism society sociology online community)
• 95% of population refuse to admit that they aren't straight.
  (tags: sexuality statistics uk)
• Government launches cheme to offer borrowers with a poor credit history an alternative to loan sharks
  (tags: loans banking money politics uk)
• Blockbuster files for bankruptcy in US. Are movie rental stores dying?
  (tags: movies rental TheFuture)

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

The same survey that you reference about people being straight also showed that seventy something percent of people in the country consider themselves to be Christians.

[andrewducker]

Yup. Which goes to show that the answer you get depends on the question you ask.