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.