Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-22-2010

[andrewducker]

• One week Hugo Chavez is praising Wikileaks, the next he's censoring the net. Aah, the hypocrisy
  (tags: censorship EpicFail Venezuela hypocrisy)
• I've been finding WorkFlowy incredibly handy for organising little tasks. Very simple and easy.
  (tags: productivity tools todo web2.0)
• UN restores gay clause to killings resolution. Ok - who changed their mind?
  (tags: un lgbt rights)
• A cover of Slient Night that actually made me feel all Christmassy.
  (tags: music christmas EpicWin)
• 40% of Americans Believe in Strict Creationism, 16% believe in unguided evolution.
  (tags: religion evolution science creationism usa EpicFail)
• An Interview With the Nativity Innkeeper
  (tags: holiday religion christianity christmas funny)
• Woman hangs up underwear in public, and then invokes the Streisand Effect when Google takes a photo of them.
  (tags: StreisandEffect Google japan EpicFail)
• Why the petrol gauge in cars lies to you.
  (tags: visualization cars)
• Cellular mechanism responsible for chronic inflammation, Type 2 diabetes uncovered
  (tags: diabetes inflammation health biology)
• Warner Bros decides not to tamper with 2001 by putting back in "lost"17 minutes of footage
  (tags: 2001 ArthurCClarke StanleyKubrick movies)
• Vince Cable has apparently declared war on Rupert Murdhoch.
  (tags: libdem RupertMurdoch VinceCable)
• Nice opinion piece: Pornblocking – why it would have killed me
  (tags: porn censorship lgbt)

Comments

Gas gauges and such

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

As an addendum to the gas gauge piece, speedometers also lie to you. I've calibrated mine against my sat nav and above 20mph it registers that I'm going 4mph fast than I actually am, all the way to 80mph. I believe this is deliberate so you when you are breaking the speed limit in real life, you're really breaking it on your speedo. Then you have no excuse...

Re: Gas gauges and such

[matgb]

Aye, friend of mine relies entirely on her SatNav speedo instead of the car one, and pretty much sticks to the exact limit on the satnav when she's somewhere she doesn't know.

There are so many margins of error built into various speed measuring systems I wonder if anyone knows what speed actual cars are normally driving.

Re: Gas gauges and such

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

When I'm driving through average speed camera zones, I take into account my actual speed vs. the speedometer, the shortest route through the multi-lane road vs. the route I take, the error margin built into the system as a whole and the actual speed above the speed limit that they'd likely ticket you.

I reckon that you could drive at 65mph in a 50mph zone (according to your speedo, without changing lanes on bends) before you're likely to get a ticket. In reality I'd drive at 55-60mph without concern. It's the people that drive at 45mph in the outside lane that get me :)