Interesting Links for 3-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Amazon places orders for tablets. Looks to be e-ink based again.
  (tags: amazon tablet technology)
• America enters the postmodern age - truth is now what you make it.
  (tags: postmodernism usa obama headdesk)
• Upload all file types to any Google Account - Google finally launching the GDrive?
  (tags: google backup files)
• Bidding for Dark Knight Returns Art Hits $100,000
  (tags: batman art comics FrankMiller)
• Demand for fairer benefits tests as two people who were declared fit to work die awaiting appeals
  (tags: welfare health uk)
• Psychologists show how precarious masculinity is, and how men will resort to violence to defend it.
  (tags: masculinity psychology violence)
• 75% of Lib Dem manifesto becoming government policy, versus 60% of Conservative policy.
  (tags: uk government libdem conservatives coalition)
• Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds - a four orders of magnitude increase!
  (tags: science physics antihydrogen antimatter)
• US Broadcasters still trying to work out how to do on-demand TV.
  (tags: tv media usa broadcasting vod)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> Psychologists show how precarious masculinity is, and how men will resort to violence to defend it.

Very interesting indeed.

Most interesting of all I think is this statement:

> Interestingly, people tend to feel manhood is defined by achievements, not biology. Womanhood, on the other hand, is seen primarily as a biological state

Hence we see men judged on their emotions and behaviour; women on their bodies.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's interesting that women can't change how womanly they're seen as - it's fixed by their body, whereas perceptions of men can be much more variable.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Except they can and do -- there are whole industries based on getting women to change their bodies, starting at clothing and grooming and ending with plastic surgery.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Given Dropbox and the clunkiness of having to manage your files through Google Docs, I must confess I think the GDrive is a bit 'too little, too late'. I've got 13.5GB of free storage on Dropbox and it integrates with all OSes and iOS/Android/Symbian, and all my friends use it so I can share folders and information really easily. But, I hope Google surprise me with something I just can't resist, because that'd be awesome.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, Dropbox is just awesome, and I really can't see this replacing that. I can't actually think what Dropbox is missing, to be honest.

I think GDrive might be useful for people writing apps that need some centralised storage somewhere (that don't want to handle it themselves), but other than that it does seem a little redundant.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

If you want to know what other people think needs to be added to Dropbox you can always check out their feature request subsite. :) You get six votes a month and I used five of mine on this feature.

[zz]

Amazon places orders for tablets

thought that meant they were branching out into the viagra/"pharma" business for a moment :>

re: "masculinity"

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

"The most dangerous thing in the world is a crowd of cowards."
-- me

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

re On Demand Viewing:

"“Our business model is that we don’t do stupid deals,” he said. “We don’t want to snub our nose at consumer trends, but we don’t need to lead them there. We have the luxury of waiting for markets to gain critical mass.” "

hahaha. HAHAHA. Enjoy your shows being pirated by people of whom a proportion would have actually watched it in an approved way, then.

[andrewducker]

That was pretty much my feeling :->

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Is the antihydrogen thing the big news from CERN that was starting to get talked about a bit ago?