Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Privacy is dead, you might as well look on the funny side
  (tags: privacy technology wikileaks internet funny CharlieBrooker TransparentSociety)
• One does not get to judge whether something is rape based on the following actions of the (possible) victim.
  (tags: rape behaviour)
• MRI scans show that meditators feel pain - but don't lay down memories, or appraise it as painful.
  (tags: meditation pain psychology brains)
• Mindfulness-based therapy helps prevent depression relapse (slightly better than antidepressants)
  (tags: depression mental_health mindfulness psychology)
• The 10 Least Successful Christmas Specials of All Time
  (tags: christmas funny tv parody)
• WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops
  (tags: wikileaks afghanistan war rape usa corruption)
• 21 scandalous secrets revealed on WookieLeaks
  (tags: wikileaks starwars funny)
• Labour acting like spoiled brats, forcing climate change secretary to abandon UN talks in Mexico.
  (tags: labour politics climatechange uk)
• US lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard - might explain why they're backing it over wikileaks
  (tags: wikileaks mastercard russia visa)
• Mastercard downed by Anonymous - in revenge for their dumping of Wikileaks.
  (tags: payments business anonymous mastercard ddos internet)
• Iceland's Alþing says yes to Wikileaks law - turns country into journalistic safe haven.
  (tags: iceland wikileaks law EpicWin)
• What the fucking fuck? Man stabs friend because he was upset at not being waved at. I mean, what?
  (tags: friendship murder violence wtf)
• The amount of sex you have is not related to relationship happiness - except for neurotic people, who need oodles of sex.
  (tags: relationships marriage sexuality)
• The BBC on Tuition Fees and the Graduate Tax. Which are apparently pretty much identical
  (tags: tax government education uk)

Comments

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

What the fucking fuck? Man stabs friend because he was upset at not being waved at. I mean, what?

A quick way to discern someone's mood is to see how they would react in the following story. You're walking down the street when you see a friend, you wave, but they don't wave back, why was that/how do you feel/what do you do?

This guy takes it to the extreme :)

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Being blanked is something I have a particular issue with. I would go and angst about it for days, possibly weeks. When persistently blanked by one person, it took over a year to get used to it; he later said "I think it's better to say nothing and not talk than to shout at you"... aargh!!!

I wouldn't be aggressive towards the person though.

[matgb]

Reading it several times through.

The guy who stabbed his friend was the guy who didn't wave. The victim was annoyed, rang the driver of the car to say how angry he was, and the passenger then got out, went back and stabbed him.

So it wasn't stabbed for not waving, it was stabbed for complaining about not being waved at. The mind boggles.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg (1986)

In this 90-minute event, Santa (Michael Ironside) makes an emergency landing in the Northwest Territories, where he is exposed to a previously unknown virus after being attacked by a violent moose. The virus causes Santa to develop both a large, tooth-bearing orifice in his belly and a lustful hunger for human flesh, which he sates by graphically devouring Canadian celebrities Bryan Adams, Dan Ackroyd and Gordie Howe on national television. Music by Neil Young.

I'd watch it. In fact I now want someone to get David Cronenberg to make this.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

But... but... but... No-one should be allowed to devour Gordie Howe! Adams and Ackroyd fair enough :)

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

*wonders if anyone else here has even heard of Gordie Howe....*

[andrewducker]

I assume that he's something to do with the "Ice Basketball" that you seem to be fond of.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

He is indeed, he's the man after which the Gordie Howe Hat-trick is named - getting a goal, an assist and a fight all in the same game :)

Oddly he only ever had two Gordie Howe Hat-tricks his entire career.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I hadn't until 2 minutes ago when I googled him.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

If Anonymous was the reason I couldn't get buy more food before the stores closed due to this storm, I hope they get dick cancer from all their screen-wanking.

-- Steve's growing tired of their petulant antics, even when they claim to be acting in causes he supports.

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

I'd comment on the rape article, but tbh I have no idea what rape is anymore.

[andrewducker]

As a basic, I'm going to go with "non-consensual sex". There's always going to be fiddly grey areas where people disagree about the nature of consent, but as a basic definition it works pretty darn well.