Interesting Links for 15-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• A suggested for selling books/comics online, with no setup costs. It's actually pretty smart.
  (tags: writing marketing publishing comics online business distribution selfpublishing ebook)
• Swine flu gives its survivors supercharged immunity
  (tags: medicine science health swineflu virus)
• Putting food labels on restaurant menus does not affect customer choices even a tiny little bit.
  (tags: food law)
• $1,000 reward offered for stolen cancer research laptop. WILL SOMEONE TEACH RESEARCHERS TO BACK UP!!!!!!!
  (tags: research theft EpicFail OhForFucksSake)
• Researchers Use MRI to Predict 60% Of Your Gaming Prowess
  (tags: psychology games computers brain neuroscience)
• Woman claimed to have cancer and burns in order to have a relationship with another woman while claiming to be a main.
  (tags: relationships wtf)
• How drug classification really works
  (tags: drugs satire funny)
• Fantasy names: a rant.
  (tags: writing scifi fantasy language)
• Government not able to limit RBS bonuses, due to contract signed by Labour
  (tags: rbs bonus banking uk government finance)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I imagine the food labelling might have an effect over time. (though that's a pure guess).

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

I don't understand all the people in the comments of that fantasy naming LJ post saying 'yes, but I use Celtic naming conventions, therefore I am Doing My Part to not homogenize things'. Have they ever read any fantasy?

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I'm not a researcher but should probably back things up.

How do I do that?

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Most of the names I use derive from Old French, Middle English and Welsh.

So, you know. Southern English names. Wow, that's branching... in...

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it was piggy flu, but I got viciously ill last Autumn. First day I got a horrid fever, actually passed out at work - then spent the next.. maybe 2 months miserably sick. Had to work through it.

this year I've encountered a lot of people with shitty flu's, and while I can tell I'm carrying, my immune system is kicking its ass.

by this gloriously unscientific reasoning, I declare the above potentially true. I have been, in general, a *lot* less ill this year than last

[ami-bender.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the people who actually care about healthy eating wouldn't of gone to the fast food place in the first place.