Interesting Links for 6-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for £15
  (tags: technology TheFuture computers)
• Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?
  (tags: brain emotion gender)
• When philosopher's attack (A few friends of mine could have done with this)
  (tags: philosophy attack funny debate conversation friendship)
• I'd always wondered how Cable Internet works - and now I know!
  (tags: internet networking cable)
• Why won't President Obama release a photo of Osama bin Laden in hell?
  (tags: OsamaBinLaden hell funny usa obama)
• Kinect and 3D printer turns people into action-figure souvenirs. Congratulations on living in the future.
  (tags: 3d printing awesome)
• Holy water from Mecca being sold in the UK is....poisonous. Oops.
  (tags: religion islam EpicFail)
• The Telegraph suggests the poor shouldn't be allowed to vote
  (tags: Poverty voting uk EpicFail tax)
• Why 2nd Vote Green Matters for SNP Voters
  (tags: Voting scotland)
• Conversations with Taxi Drivers #2: How do taxi drivers vote? (Not how you'd expect)
  (tags: voting funny)

Comments

[supergee]

If you liked military intelligence, you'll love emotional intelligence.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Wait, what, is that Telegraph article for real and not some sort of Onion style spoof?

[andrewducker]

I DON'T KNOW!!!

I mean, it's titled "A Modest Proposal", which usually means spoofery, but with an underlying point.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I mean, it does underline one of the fundemental principles of the Conservative party, it's just... you never really see them being brave enough to openly admit it.

Perhaps they just seek to compound the misery of the Lib-Dems. That thing about Call-me-Dave wanting to ban all gay kissing before 9pm seemed intended to drive a knife into the Lib-Dems too.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

That marlarkey about the beer was in the Torygraph less than 6 months ago, I'm sure of it. Their columnists need to change the damn record.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Also, I like the way only mothers look after children...

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

And that being productive mothers is the only way that poor women will be allowed the vote under the new Conservative regime.

Presumably not single mothers though.

[broin.livejournal.com]

That PC... *explodes*

Holy crap.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

yeah, this.

That pc is all kinds of awesome.

[crm.livejournal.com]

thanks for the cable article.

il lsend it in to work, as its vaguley related and the last thing i want to do after work is anything involving technology.

[andrewducker]

:->

I've been hearing about DOCSIS for ages, and it was nice to finally have an understanding of what it meant!

[crm.livejournal.com]

its nice to see the 'speed of light is a going concern' thing in print, my 'well educated' friends laughed me out of the room when i said as such about our inter-site links.

related: if you dont alredy know about it, and want to know more about 'isnt technology cool' check out this infonugget:

http://www.huihongfiber.com/dwdm.html

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it should be obvious to anyone that works with computers that the speed of light is of massive concern in chip design, motherboard design, networking, etc.

And cheers for the link!