Interesting Links for 22-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
  (tags: funny advertising marketing)
• Does email address obfuscation actually work? (with graph!)
  (tags: email spam html obfuscation)
• Apple putting tamper-proof screws on iPhone to stop you changing your own battery.
  (tags: iphone apple OhForFucksSake)
• Meteorologists identify cause of cold and warm periods during winter (like the recent cold snap)
  (tags: weather meteorology stratosphere winter)
• Daily Mail lying about a politician's expenses, to make them look bad. Can you guess which party?
  (tags: labour DailyMail uk)
• The quest for a reliable lie detector test
  (tags: brains psychology lying)
• ID cards to be scrapped at midnight tonight
  (tags: identity government uk)
• First impressions are general, further impressions are contextual
  (tags: psychology social relationships)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Apple putting tamper-proof screws on iPhone to stop you changing your own battery.

Wow, that's moronic on so many levels. Not least, unless it's unlike every other mobile phone I've had, on the rare occasion when it crashes and freezes taking the battery out briefly is the only way to fix it, since most phones don't 'dry boot' the way you can a PC.

*Cue a bunch of mac users telling me their computers 'have never crashed ever' and nor therefore will Apple phones*

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

Having enjoyed the fact that any pub I walk into the bartender does not card me here in the UK, this scrapping of ID card is, apart from the reduction of retention time, the best UK government news I've heard in quite some time.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

It would seem that e-mail obfuscation is like locking your house: It keeps out the lazy predators.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why the iPhone thing is news. You can't get into the iMac or MacBook beyond Apple-authorised changes, you couldn't get into /any/ of the iPods and you can't get into any of the non-iPhone 4 model iPhones, nor (I believe) the iPad. So why is it news that a company that doesn't like people opening cases has come up with a way to stop people opening another case?

It's like saying "Newly elected Conservative MP comes out as being in favour of the free market" and pretending that that's some completely revelatory piece of shocking news.