Interesting Links for 23-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• New disability test 'is a complete mess', says the man who designed it
  (tags: disabilities welfare uk government)
• Turning chess games into music
  (tags: Chess music games geekery)
• Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorders in infants
  (tags: eeg brain autism psychology children)
• National anti-drug campaign in US succeeds in lowering marijuana use
  (tags: drugs advertising usa)
• Divorcing couples to go through mediation before court
  (tags: divorce relationships law uk)
• Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language
  (tags: swearing programming funny)
• China's 'Go-To' Typical American Guy
  (tags: china culture entertainment)
• Twitter is a playground for spiteful Lefty bullies
  (tags: twitter media uk politics)
• British Defence cuts? Why, they’ve barely started
  (tags: uk military spending government)
• Amazon launches streaming video service in the US. Dammit - when is it coming to the UK?
  (tags: tv video amazon entertainment streaming)
• Scottish NHS dental patients at record level. Still pretty rubbish if you live in the countryside though.
  (tags: scotland nhs dental)
• Lost Enid Blyton book unearthed
  (tags: EnidBlyton books children)
• An open letter to David Cameron
  (tags: DavidCameron egypt middle_east weaponry)
• Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard
  (tags: ebooks epub japan)
• Most Ambitious Man of Steel Movie Ever? All-Star Superman
  (tags: superman movie animation)
• This is pretty much how I deal with information overload.
  (tags: information web2.0 productivity socialmedia)
• NO2AV campaign holding debates that aren't, and leaving sockpuppet comments defending themselves. Nice!
  (tags: av voting uk)
• Physicists Discover Quantum Processes At Work In Protein Folding
  (tags: quantum chemistry biology physics)

Comments

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I clicked through with alacrity on your first link, as I have some professional interest -- and observed that the Guardian has printed a correction. Professor Gregg is a welfare expert but he's not a doctor and this is not his area of speciality.