Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Labour seem to be supporting the coalition government over the welfare/work changes
  (tags: welfare government uk)
• AOL looking to buy Yahoo. Does anyone care about _either_ of these companies any more???
  (tags: aol yahoo internet business)
• The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics - the figures are actually worse than I thought.
  (tags: media newspapers business economics newspaper paywall journalism)
• And the Most Popular Way to Read an E-Book Is …
  (tags: ereader ebooks amazon kindle sony ipad technology)
• The most awesome Lego/Star Wars mash up ever. Only more awesome than that.
  (tags: video lego starwars)
• What comics can do that movies can't.
  (tags: comics movies warrenellis)
• French doctor's 'million-to-one' chance of catching baby who fell from balcony
  (tags: france children luck)
• Cooks Magazine, the apology Judith Griggs should have given. Hilarious from end to end.
  (tags: copyright funny)
• Lorem ipsum - amazing photography of calligraphic body art.
  (tags: art photography words)
• This is how I feel about correcting other people's grammar. Particularly the last sentence of the first paragraph
  (tags: awesome english grammar language linguistics)
• Reporting Sexual Harassment in SF/F
  (tags: assault rape sf fandom publishing conventions)
• Is News Corp about to kill off MySpace?
  (tags: myspace socialnetworking software web2.0)
• Is Apple planing to move to Light Peak?
  (tags: apple intel technology)
• 3 starts killing off 2G coverage
  (tags: mobile_phones 3g uk)
• Altruism gene associated with higher willingness to donate.
  (tags: altruism genetics behaviour psychology)
• The riddle of the NHS budget
  (tags: nhs budget money government uk)
• Government promises dramatic increase in transparency about contracts and costs.
  (tags: data transparency uk government)
• argest independent pilot's association to boycott full body scanners
  (tags: airplanes security_theatre usa)
• Majority of British people believe in control orders, using information obrained through torture and denying prisoners the vote.
  (tags: uk society)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

As the old joke goes, at a party a doctor and a lawyer were talking. The doctor complained that people kept asking him for professional advice. The lawyer was sympathetic, and said he used to have the same problem. The doctor asked asked what had changed. The lawyer said that whenever he'd been asked for professional advice, he'd send a bill the next day, and people soon learned. The doctor heartily lauded this technique, and vowed to do the same. The next morning, he got a bill from the lawyer.

That your job should be that interesting is a good point. But I imagine the sort of things people are likely to ask "in passing" tend to be well-meaning but (a) endless repetitions of the most obvious misconceptions about your job and (b) talking about fairly obvious problems that need a high level of detail checking.