Interesting Links for 11-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Google forms alliance to ensure all Android phones get 18 months of updates
  (tags: android google mobile_phones)
• The epic AV Referendum post-mortem blog: Evil triumphs when the good are led by incompetent halfwits
  (tags: uk politics voting av)
• Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars
  (tags: google TheFuture usa law cars)
• BMI Says A Single Person Listening To Their Own Music Via The Cloud Is A Public Performance
  (tags: copyright stupidity)
• iFlowReader shuts down because Apple's 30% cut of ebooks makes it unprofitable.
  (tags: business apple ebooks)
• Nine out of 10 Free School applications fail to pass first test
  (tags: education uk government)
• Spelling out, in very big letters, something the LibDem leadership don't seem to understand
  (tags: libdem government uk)
• Mind/body program to reduce stress increases pregnancy rates in IVF treatment
  (tags: stress pregnancy)
• The six stages of movie geek evolution
  (tags: movies geeky)
• YouTube starts renting movies. The end is nigh for Cable.
  (tags: movies youtube vod)
• How not to Raise Spoiled Brats
  (tags: psychology education children money parenting)
• One Professor’s Attempt to Explain Every Joke Ever
  (tags: psychology research humour funny jokes)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Good links today. Thought I'd say since you haven't had any comments on 'em.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The humour thing is brilliant. I hope to hear more from this guy.

The parenting thing -- I will try to keep those points in mind. Chores before she's two though? I know she is developing fast, but right now I don't think there's anything I could ask her to do. And I am having a ponder about whether my swanky new kitchen is about status symbol, or just that I want a jolly nice kitchen. I do feel it's the latter though.

BMI: hahahaha.

AV referendum: I thought the material we had was pretty shit too. Bummer all round really.

Android: nice to see this. Sounds sensible. Hope that means it'll roll around to my phone!

Movie geek: site broken. Image not loading, or only partly loading. WTF.

(Also, GAH, what is it with all these sites like Gawker et al? Do they all run on the same CMS or something? They look identical and lately they all have this annoying thing with using JS for links and thus not loading the damn link you clicked.)