Interesting Links for 12-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Is Mental Illness the Explanation for What He Did?
  (tags: aggression illness schizophrenia violence)
• Christopher Lee says he'll return for The Hobbit IF he's healthy. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.
  (tags: thehobbit ChristopherLee movies)
• Super PSTW Action RPG - I can't honestly think of a better use of ten minutes of your time.
  (tags: flash games funny rpg)
• Possibly the finest review in the history of mankind (video, about three minutes long, utterly hilarious)
  (tags: funny animation flash review games video)
• How to make your shopping cart suck less
  (tags: usability webdesign funny shopping ecommerce design)
• Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena
  (tags: twitter wikileaks law usa)
• Female physical arousal during rape - a defense mechanism?
  (tags: rape arousal psychology)
• Google just removed support for h.264 from Chrome. This is going to be...interesting.
  (tags: html5 chrome video google internet browser h264 h.264)
• Finally, proof that Keanu is Jesus!
  (tags: funny KeanuReeves Jesus photo)
• SteamyPunk - Being the Fanciful Erotica of a SteamPunk World (I just love the domain name)
  (tags: steampunk erotica)
• New glass stronger and tougher than steel
  (tags: glass physics TheFuture)
• Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth
  (tags: science physics weather)
• Apparently your iPhone warranty is void if you use it below freezing.
  (tags: apple iphone wtf)
• The Daily Star, Express and OK! are now excluded from the Press Complaints Commission for not paying fees
  (tags: media uk)
• The rarely reported heroism of women (particularly the woman who stopped the gunman who shot Congresswoman Gifford)
  (tags: heroism women media)

Comments

On the other hand the good news..

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

"Consistent with past research, the men's genital arousal was far more specific, tending to occur most strongly in response to a consensual, non-violent sexual encounter, which was also the scenario they said they found most arousing."

Re: On the other hand the good news..

[andrewducker]

Yes - that was interesting, and positive. I wonder how much that was affected by the encounter being related from the woman's point of view.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Ooh that Chrome thing is interesting. I really like Chrome, and use Chrome or the Chrome-derived Rockmelt for all my home browsing needs. This feels like a very aggressive move on Google's part; the open codecs they're supporting are quite rudimentary, aren't they? And at the same time as they're sweetly saying that they're 'supporting open codecs', they're *bundling Flash* in their browser. So a better explanation of what they're doing is 'pissing off Apple'.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Let's hope that the open codecs get better fast, or this one's going to bite them.

[andrewducker]

My understanding is that you can't really tell the difference between WebVM and h.264 by looking at them. And the size difference must be negligible, because the difference in size was what put Google off of the Ogg video formats.

I can see the hypocrisy on Google's part, but I'm glad they're doing it, because otherwise it just leaves Firefox supporting patent-free web standards.

Apple, of course, could support WebVM tomorrow if it wanted to in Safari. I dunno what the performance would be like for software decoding on the iPhone, but I suspect that h.264 will be around for a while, certainly long enough for them to get hardware decoding into it.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

The Awesome is FRIKKIN AWESOME!!!!

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that's awesome.

freezing

[zz]

my mp3 player died both times i went up arthur's seat, to be fine again later. i forgot that a lot of electronics' stated operating temp is only down to 0 degrees.

[fub.livejournal.com]

The review made me lol. Deadpan delivery of internet vitriol never ceases to be funny.