Interesting Links for 24-4-2011

[andrewducker]

• Scottish Catholics realise they are doomed, start panicking and blaming the people who don't believe in things without a evidence.
  (tags: religion catholicism scotland funny)
• Facebook News Feed History of the World: Big Bang to Humans
  (tags: facebook funny history)
• 8 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI (Well, you will, but still - fascinating)
  (tags: movies cgi sfx effects)
• Sexonomics - Belle Du Jour (Dr Brooke Magnanti) writes about perceptions of sex and prostitution (with stats).
  (tags: blog sex statistics BelleDuJour prostitution)
• The biggest news site in Germany moves to IPv6 - sees very few problems (apparently mostly OSX based)
  (tags: ipv6 internet)
• Fascinating discussion of algorithmic pricing on Amazon marketplace
  (tags: business technology sales books amazon)
• Atkins-like Diet can reverse kidney failure in mice with diabetes
  (tags: diabetes health science mice)
• Riot police in France have described as “absurd” measures to stop them drinking alcohol on the job.
  (tags: police france drinking)
• Bizarre question of the day. NSFW, if you are at work on a Sunday
  (tags: wtf masturbation)

Comments

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Wow, Dr Maganti's either going to be totally ignored or she's going to have a lot of people shouting at her (and probably much worse too).

[andrewducker]

I suspect a mixture. And I'm sure she's been shouted at a lot before.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of a heterosexual male friend in town who has never taken the train to Barcelona and checked out the brothels and I'm coming up blank.