Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-30-2010

[andrewducker]

• Google Translate now supports Latin!
  (tags: latin google translation)
• There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly
  (tags: ipv6 networking internet technology)
• Genetic component to ADHD discovered
  (tags: genetics adhd add personality psychology)
• The leaders of two of the three main parties in the UK parliament are atheists.
  (tags: religion politics uk)
• CIA used pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks
  (tags: cia usa robots software piracy EpicFail)
• Movie subtitles applied to the wrong movies. Funny. And made of wrong.
  (tags: funny movies subtitles SomethingAwful)
• For Germany, WWI finally ends on Sunday
  (tags: germany wwi history)
• GMail allows users to turn off conversation view. YAAAAAAY! Thank holy fuck, and about time too!!!
  (tags: gmail google email web2.0)
• Analysis of gay represenation in American TV. 3.9% overall, True Blood comes off best.
  (tags: sexuality lgbt tv usa)
• Quantifying and Visualising the Lib Dem Effect in the Coalition. Nice Venn Diagram.
  (tags: visualization libdem coalition politics conservatives uk)
• Study: Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men
  (tags: feminism wages work usa)
• Canadian judge overturns brothel ban in Ontario, labels it unconstitutional.
  (tags: canada prostitution law)
• Age 35-44 is when people are at the least happiest.
  (tags: health psychology depression)
• This is why using "gay" to mean "bad" is an awful thing to do.
  (tags: gay lgbt)
• Star Wars is getting redone in 3-D with a new theatrical release! Let the flamewars begin!
  (tags: starwars 3d)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Don't know what cilantro is, but for me, conversation view in gmail is the Big Thing that suddenly made email Suck Less.

[andrewducker]

I suggest you don't click on the "off" button then. Personally, I'll be clicking it the moment it appears.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

But... why???

[andrewducker]

Ok. Let's say that you have an email thread with 67 emails in it. And you want to keep two of them for doing stuff with later. How does one do that with gmail conversation view?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Star both of them. They show as expanded when you go to the thread.

Also, if you forward them and change the subject, they fork off.

When do you have 67 emails in a thread? Mailing lists? I hate mailing lists; they're completely unusable and antiquated.

[andrewducker]

I frequently get that many responses to a post on LJ, and they all get threaded together. If I want to save a couple of proper replies later, then they're in the middle of that.

I also frequently start the day with an email saying "Hi" to a friend or two, and then we're still replying when I leave the office in the evening. There'll be at least 50 emails in that thread, and freqently a fair bit more.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I find that starring the relevant ones works for me too.

[andrewducker]

Fortunately I don't have to worry about using workarounds like that any more - I can just read them all individually. Context is rarely a problem with email for me, so having them all grouped together doesn't gain me anything.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Ah. I still have my LJ go to yahoo... never bothered to change it.

[andrewducker]

All of my stuff goes to andrew@ducker.org.uk. It's the only email account I actually use. I used to also use andrew@notzen.com, but I haven't even checked that in an age.

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

For me too.

I think cilantro is American for coriander. I'm not keen on the stuff.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

cilantro is definitely coriander - I use loads of american cookbooks

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

Specifically, it's coriander leaf. The seeds are still referred to as coriander.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I don't know, it's still not as good what some threaded email clients or newsgroups were doing 10 years ago. Yes, gmail groups together connected messages, but that's all it does. Email is like a tree, with branches; gmail flattens all those the branches together into one disorganised bundle, at best ordered by date.

Labels instead of folders on the other hand, I like.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

The fact that Lucas is going to release Phantom Menace first is totally gay.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

Google Translate now supports Latin!

I needed that Tuesday, damn it. (No, srsly...)

[supergee.livejournal.com]

But now maybe we'll understand the pope.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Re: Star Wars news...

The shotgun has been welded to a micrometer-accuracy positioning rig and adjusted using laser interferometry, the fish nailed to the bottom of the barrel have been stunned into immobility using copious quantities of Rotenone, the trigger mechanism has been polished and tweaked until a mere thought would set it off and you think, "Why bother?" and walk away.

To mix metaphors, the wet spot under the necrophiliac bestiality crime scene dried up a long time ago. Just walk away.

(But Han shot first, remember!)

[broin.livejournal.com]

'This is why using "gay" to mean "bad" is an awful thing to do.'

Where does that follow in the story...?

[andrewducker]

Because it's part of that treatment.

Imagine if "Irish" was used to mean "stupid". Or "Jew" was. It wouldn't matter whether people actually wanted to hurt Irish or Jewish people. The constant effect would be one where it felt like people were being nasty to you, all the damn time.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Imagine if "Irish" was used to mean "stupid".

Yes, just imagine... oh, wait...

[andrewducker]

Well, exactly.

Or if "girly" was used to mean "weak and womanish".

Sorry, I mean "weak and ineffective".

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there...

[andrewducker]

I am intermittently worried that I might be too subtle on the internets, or unclear as to what I'm saying :->

[broin.livejournal.com]

Oh! Fine - that's your opinion and not a conclusion of the article. :p

I don't agree, but understand why you feel that.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I think possible Andy's commenting on what he sees as the culture that allows these kids to feel this way. If 'gay' and 'crap'/'stupid' weren't still pretty much synonymous to most teenagers then we might be a little further along the path to acceptance and a detachment of stigma from the word 'gay' and the state of being so.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - I get that, and understand that, and disagree with that, BUT I thought there was something specific in the article (or some connected to it that I'd missed) about the connection.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

God, the comments on that Hollywood Reporter story are just lovely...

[andrewducker]

Never read the comments! That's how they get you!

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

... in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more.

Not sure about Memphis, but my understanding is that Atlanta has a significant black population. US has all those silly drug laws in place that target black males. Making 20% more than an ex-con isn't hard.

(Hispanic and black women are twice as likely to graduate from college as their male peers.)

Exactly.

[andrewducker]

Thanks - that's an interesting factor to take into account.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

This is why using "gay" to mean "bad" is an awful thing to do.

Also this. Fuck, I hate the world sometimes.

[soon_lee]

That a response to that is this makes me hopeful that we are not irredeemable.