Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-2-2010

[andrewducker]

• Scientific research leads to excitable headline, followed by more balanced artlcle. (and possible end of common cold)
  (tags: science virus media)
• Unhear it - the cure whatever is currently earworming you.
  (tags: music song funny)
• Family leap from building to escape "the devil". I would love to know what the fuck happened here.
  (tags: france wtf)
• What if Beethoven had composed Darth Vader's theme?
  (tags: music star_wars starwars video)
• 50,000 people are paying for a monthly subscription to electronic versions of The Times.
  (tags: uk newspapers media)
• Arkansas school board member officially resigns over anti-gay post. Inching slowly into the future...
  (tags: bigotry usa lgbt)
• What the fuck has Obama done so far?
  (tags: BarackObama obama funny)
• People who exercise catch less colds
  (tags: exercise disease fitness health)
• First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft
  (tags: browser html5 microsoft)
• The Walking Dead - not progressive about women. (At least not in the first episode)
  (tags: feminism zombies TheWalkingDead)
• Android Becomes Top Mobile Operating System in U.S., No. 2 Worldwide
  (tags: android mobile mobile_phones)
• Dolphins using touch-screens to communicate. Have yet to express gratitude for the fish.
  (tags: dolphins technology)
• iPhone bug causes alarms to fail after Daylight Savings Time kicks in.
  (tags: time iphone)
• Tax evasion, tax avoidance, and tax mitigation in the UK. I hadn't grasped the difference between the last two before...
  (tags: tax uk government law)
• The calorie - not actually that useful a measure.
  (tags: energy fat food bbc health)
• Alcohol more harmful than heroin, crack cocaine
  (tags: drugs harm science)
• Apparently rising air passenger taxes will put people off flying. Um, isn't that the point?
  (tags: tax flight uk society)
• Apparently The Walking Dead TV series is awesome. Warning: full of spoilers.
  (tags: TheWalkingDead tv reviews)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Daylight SavinG. Not SavingS. ;)

Dolphins -- LOL!

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

yeah, I note the dolphins weren't keen on iPads. That's just got to prove some sort of intelligence right there ;-)

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Gotta love Toughbooks. They're our weapon of choice given our guys actually have to work outside where there's, y'know, weather* and stuff!

* Bet Jobs would restrict that too if he could, if he thought it wold make his iPad look better by not risking it going "fzzzzt bang!" in the rain. :)

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

The person behind that dolphin research is probably not the smartest. What kind of idiot thinks "huh, an ipad - that'll go well with a creature that LIVES IN WATER?"

Re: Times paywall

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Odds on that subscriber figure plummeting further as all those people who thought, "I'll pay once, go see what it's like behind the paywall" never go back and don't appear in the next round of subscriber figures?

I'll be surprised if the paywall idea survives when an 87% drop is including the boost from the novelty factor.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I am either really impressed or really appalled that the government/HMRC have for quite some time refused to clarify their position on evasion/avoidance/mitigation in order that they can change what they chase people for/allow happily and even encourage depending on how the public mood looks.

Don't worry about the Walking Dead. Pretty sure they'll add in a female character who wears tight clothes, bends over towards the camera whilst wearing a low-cut top a lot and is basically a sex object, except she also fights zombies without the help of men and wins, so this will count as being as progressive as you'll get.

[dommy-nick.livejournal.com]

I like the Beethoven version of the Darth Vader music!