Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-7-2010

[andrewducker]

• BT required to open fibre network by Ofcom
  (tags: bt broadband uk)
• Tactical voting will still occur under the Alternative Vote, but much less so than under First Past the Post
  (tags: voting politics)
• Einstein Vs. Ninjas. Hang on, let me say that again. EINSTEN VERSUS NINJAS!!!!!
  Possibly I should have tried a blink tag.
  (tags: einstein feynman ninja)
• Amazing historical images from the Korean War.
  (tags: korea war photography)
• A marvellous gravity simulator. I've just spent twenty minutes playing with this.
  (tags: physics simulation gravity flash astronomy space)
• True Blood's Skarsgard on that sexy, bloody Rolling Stone cover
  (tags: trueblood vampires photography)
• Libya taking down .ly websites not in line with Islamic law. And here's me using bit.ly....
  (tags: islam censorship internet law)
• T-Mobile's latest Android phone reinstalls stock OS if rooted. Shan't be buying one of _them_ then.
  (tags: mobile_phones android drm)
• How to make sure your hardware works with Windows.
  (tags: windows hardware funny computers)
• Why you don't like changes to your design. To be shown to all designers that I know.
  (tags: design webdesign comics)
• If you do this in an email, I hate you (and so does everyone else)
  (tags: comic funny email)
• First Autistic Presidential Appointee Speaks Out
  (tags: autism politics usa)
• Kindle better for books, iPad better for browsing short articles. Makes sense to me.
  (tags: reading ereader kindle ipad)
• Journalists repeat Wikipedia articles without checking first. Remind me why I should care about newspapers again?
  (tags: newspapers news media reporting wikipedia EpicFail)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

"Your Ninja parlour tricks are no match for German Alchemy and Egyptian Xeno-Math!!"

Pure class! :)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

You see, I dont understand how a 'journalist' being caught cribbing a wiki article doesn't amount to grounds for instant dismissal. But I guess it must be what they're all doing these days.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Comets are much easier to make than planets!

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

They are. Although I did manage to make a relatively stable binary-star system with three or four slightly-elliptical orbit planets (and two that were wildly out of control when they passed between the binary pair :)

Unfortunately the whole thing was prone to a little precession and the system as a whole just drifted....

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> NIC.ly have suddenly decided that <4 letter .ly domains should only be available to local Libyans

Actually that seems perfectly sensible to me. If your site is not specifically Libyan, fuck off out of the .ly TLD.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they will come to a similar decision with the Tuvalu TLD. I can think of a number of television stations that use a .tv domain.

I remember there was a similar decision taken a while back for the Christmas Island domain. Their motivation was to get rid of the goatse.cx website as far as I can remember.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Last I heard Tuvalu was happy to rake in the cash... ;)

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

And what about the Cook Islands? I'd love to be a business there.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had no idea they used the co.ck SLD. That's superbly funny.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Tuvalu is ecstatic to have the money.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

But it might break the twenty billion bit.ly links already in existence in write-only places. This is not good for the web as a whole.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It is very funny though. Like when that Twitter re-broadcast 'service' expired due to duff hardware and no DR plan.

(And I am fully aware that in writing that I have cursed myself to Interesting Times tomorrow.)

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Kindle better for books, iPad better for browsing short articles.

Which is exactly why I just bought a Kindle versus an iPad, and why I just had to order another for the other half!

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'd happily have a pad for lying around the flat with, but for reading I love my Sony Reader.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

If you like Alexander Skarsgard, then watch Generation Kill. He is the coolest man alive in that show (and the show is great)

Also he's all buffed up, if that's your thing.

You should forward that email thing around as a chain email. The irony would be exquisite.