Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Wind farms can affect local weather patterns
  (tags: wind energy renewables power environment)
• A couple of units of alcohol per week during pregnancy does children no harm
  (tags: alcohol pregnancy children)
• Apple removes iPhone app because "it could be used for illegal purposes". Nice.
  (tags: apps apple iphone censorship)
• 83% support child benefit cut
  (tags: benefits uk politics)
• Researchers turn off severe food allergies in mice
  (tags: allergies food research mice)
• Anyone want a Bluegrass cover of the entirety of The Wall? Anybody? At all?
  (tags: music PinkFloyd TheWall)
• How the new OK Go video was made: Twelve dogs, four weeks, 120 takes, one video with no cuts.
  (tags: dogs video music EpicWin)
• Jewish newspaper announces they won't be running any more same-sex wedding announcements. Lots of great comments.
  (tags: Jews religion homosexuality lgbt homophobia relationships marriage usa)
• Livejournal have now disabled cros-posting of non-public comments even for Cyrillic users.
  (tags: privacy livejournal)
• Terrifying homophobia in Uganda.
  (tags: homophobia lgbt uganda)
• The William James zone - when your mind isn't angry, but your body still is.
  (tags: mind body anger communication relationships)
• How Fake Money Saved Brazil. My mind is boggling that this worked.
  (tags: economics brazil inflation money currency psychology)
• Next's Android Tablet is absolutely awful.
  (tags: android tablet review technology)

Comments

[innerbrat]

I don't understand why iPhones have a camera feature that could be used to take pictures or videos of children.

IT SHOULD BE BANNED.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why people get upset when Apple refuse to allow apps in their store. It's their store, they can do what they like with it. If people are putting resources into developing apps, they need to be aware of the risk that Apple will not allow it to go in the store.

[andrewducker]

Yes, of course it's Apple's store, and they're free to do what they like. And I'm free to point out that I don't like it, and that I despise that way of working. It's why I have an Android phone, where I can isntall anything I like, from anywhere on the internet.

[andrewducker]

Tell me about it.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

you know, those terrorists talk on the phone all the time... that feature should probably be disabled too

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Then there are the apps that help you aim guns. They claim that they are to get the bad guys in the 'Stan...

Next tablet

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Apparently LG have delayed production of their Android tablet until 3.0 is out, saying that "2.2 isn't the one".

Link

Re: Next tablet

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that's been Google's position for a while - 2.2 isn't designed to handle those kinds of resolutions.

All I want is a tablet, without mobile connectivity, for a reasonable price. I suspect it'll be at least £300 for something like that when they first appear, and more like £400. They'll come down though.

Re: Next tablet

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

You and me both. At the moment the iPad is the only contender for me for no other reason than it's the only decent tablet around.

Re: Next tablet

[andrewducker]

See above for why I shan't be getting an iPad, but even so I agree that there's no decent equivalent out there right now.

Also, I have no money. But in about 9 months time, the market will be a lot more settled, and I will!

Re: Next tablet

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Fair point on the App Store. I can't really make any decisive arguements against as I have an iPhone, but I am concerned about the completely inconsistent behavior displayed by the approval team and the App Store in general.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I think the bluegrass Pink Floyd may have broken my brain :O

[andrewducker]

Victory is Mine!

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

I like that the 'Listen' link changes to a red flashing 'Stop' after you click it. It should read "Stop! STOP!"

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

This is a long way from the first bluegrass Pink Floyd covers I've heard. I don't think that The Wall is a very good candidate for the treatment, though.

Lots of groups have done one or more songs from Dark Side of the Moon.

Here's a rather decent version of Brain Damage, from Dark Side of the Moon: Dark Side Of The Moonshine.

Here's a far more peppy version of the same song.

[andrewducker]

I love that the first lot are wearing Wizard of Oz costumes.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

They did the whole album, and I gather this was some sort of, uh, concert tour?

But, yes, I liked it and would have paid to see it.

[matgb]

It did break my brain. I gave it a fair hearing, tried different tracks, then Brick in the Wall just made me say "noooooo".

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The William James zone -- wow. How come I didn't know about this? How come everyone doesn't get taught about this? Why doesn't Sesame Street have a song?

I have quite a long zone. I can still be grumpy and wound up even though I consciously would rather not be.

[andrewducker]

Tell me about it. Julie has quite a long wind-down period too, and just knowing that it's purely physical, and that nothing I can say will help has helped a huge amount.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Apple are evil, and I won't go near them.

Also Jules and I both loved the dog video!

[andrewducker]

Glad you liked the video. It was nancylebov (commenting just below) who pointed me at the making of video.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Thanks to nancylebov for pointing that out!

I didn't realise it was all done in one shot, I though it was just good CG (i.e. CG done so that I can't tell it's there). The fact that is just makes it an order of magnitude more amazing.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I've read comments at NPR about the Brazil story, and there probably should have been more emphasis on two other things the Brazilian government did-- slowing (stopping?) their increase of the money supply and pegging the real to the dollar. Still a fascinating story, and I'd like to know how the Minister of Finance who didn't know anything about economics (how did he get the job?) happened to choose sensible people who'd been working on the problem.

At this point, I'm also curious about how other countries dealt with bad inflation problems.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - you have to stop increasing the money supply and convince people that you'd done so. Sounds like the switch in currency names/currency peg did the latter, while actually stopping printing money did the former.

[matgb]

So that's why the currency is called the Real. I had no idea. How cool is that?

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

That bluegrass cover of The Wall made me happy on levels I can't explain.

Ordered.

[andrewducker]

I that case I recommend the two videos linked to by interactiveleaf further down!

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

you know, I knew that a small amount of ethyl alcohol wouldn't hurt a fetus. It's impossible to eat ripe fruit without getting some ethyl alcohol.