Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-18-2010

[andrewducker]

• Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography
  (tags: infographics design inspiration visualization illustration infographic graphics)
• UK banks only profitable because of government support - and have been for quite a while.
  (tags: banking uk government)
• Living within 300m of a freeway associated with doubling your autism risk.
  (tags: autism pollution)
• Google Body Browser. Very impressive (only works in the latest Chrome Beta though).
  (tags: google body health science visualization anatomy)
• The BBC has a 4 minute 33 second video about the John Cage work. A most unusual experience.
  (tags: silence music bbc video)
• This pretty much sums up my opinion on Predator 2. (I'm the one saying "WHAT?" in the first panel)
  (tags: movies predator comic)
• Ofcom are going to tweak the way that phone numbers work in the UK. Seems like an improvement, especially for mobile users.
  (tags: Telephone phones mobile_phones uk)
• Prisoners serving fewer than four years to get vote
  (tags: law voting)
• Woman With No Fear Intrigues Scientists
  (tags: brain fear research science psychology)
• If you buy a digital file then you're not covered under UK consumer protection legislation.
  (tags: digital music technology)
• Why we need an impact assessment of drugs policy
  (tags: drugs law government uk)
• I hear the past was in Black and White - pairs of photos of the same locations from the past and present. Fascinating.
  (tags: photography scotland history)
• Mobile phone masts correlated with sharp rise in birth rates
  (tags: statistics funny mobile_phones technology science)

Comments

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Just don't read the comments on the article - far too many people are missing the point!

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

True, but there are some gems, like this one:
"Two possibilities

The sight of a mobile phone mast creates associations in women's brains and stimulates their sexual appetite.

It is easier to have sex when talking on a mobile phone, than when talking on a fixed line phone."

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did quite like that one. :)