Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-14-2010

[andrewducker]

• Increase in localism leads to increased social stratficiation and nimbyism
  (tags: government housing)
• Amazing (large) image showing worldwide connections on Facebook. Fascinating to note the lack of Russia
  (tags: facebook visualization maps)
• Video of police pulling protester from wheelchair
  (tags: bbc police video)
• Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection (in only one patient so far, but it's a start!)
  (tags: hiv medicine science health aids disease)
• Economic growth not correlated with happiness. Not terribly shocking, that.
  (tags: economics money happiness)
• Bea Arthur Was A Truck-Driving Marine
  (tags: history wwii)
• A useful page to tell if you Gawker account was leaked?
  (tags: security)
• Washing machine industry set for massive paradigm shift? I'm sceptical - anyone got more?
  (tags: technology washing clothes)
• Lipstick On My Colar, a discussion of Susan and Narnia
  (tags: Narnia writing sexuality religion)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> even though they are happy to go to a DRY CLEANER."

Well I'm not. As far as I can tell, dry cleaners just make your clothes smell funny...

I'm curious as to how the thing works. But like you, I'm sceptical. Remember Dyson's attempt? They don't even sell that any more from what I can tell!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I think the misogyny of the Narnia books is arguable, or at least far less certain that the racism with the dark-skinned evil Muslim-analog Calormenes.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Rilstone has a great review of the movie _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_. Describes a common Hollywood formula that was added to it.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

According to this analysis, Russia's top three social networks are V Kontakte (In Touch), Odnoklassniki (Classmates), and LiveJournal.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

The media in the UK and US tend to present facebook as the social network site that everyone is on. That is not true in other parts of the world. There are plenty of other social networking sites that are big in other countries, but because they're not big in English-speaking countries, the mainstream media here tends to just make the assumption that people are all using facebook. Orkut and whatever the heck that really big Chinese one is called spring to mind.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Lipstick On My Colar, a discussion of Susan and Narnia
Well huh.

Now to me, and this is just me, when I first read Narnia I was 12-13. Yes I did indeed enjoy the books because the girls actually go to do something. And for me, Susan being kept of Narnia was feministic because if all she cared about was being a stereotypical woman who wants to forever be 20 and think only of her looks and men, well then why bother with her.

Now I do totally understand where everyone else is coming from. My biggest problems with the Narnia books is the hatred of female spiritual power. (Yes, I'm tired of witches being the villains.)

Fun reading and sharing. :)