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

[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.