Interesting Links for 16-6-2011

[andrewducker]

• HTML5 Support comes to Visual Studio 2010
  (tags: html5 visualstudio vs2010 microsoft)
• Glasgow-Edinburgh (and rest of central belt) train lines to be improved
  (tags: trains scotland glasgow edinburgh)
• Juror who used Facebook to talk to defendant jailed for 8 months
  (tags: law facebook uk)
• Weekend sleep is not enough to recover from lack of sleep during the week - women handle workweek sleep loss better
  (tags: sleep work gender)
• Yes! It is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub
  (tags: maps visualization pubs ireland dublin)
• JK Rowling is up to _something_
  (tags: harrypotter jkrowling)
• A Doctor World - Doctor Who crossed with A Softer World. Funny, touching, and just a little bit odd.
  (tags: comics doctorwho webcomic)
• Duke Nukem’s PR Threatens To Punish Sites That Run Negative Reviews
  (tags: dukenukem reviews EpicFail)
• Buildings are the key to reducing carbon emissions
  (tags: construction homes uk carbon globalwarming)
• What to Say (and not say) to Someone Who’s Sick
  (tags: health life advice social)
• 'Casanova gene' in female songbirds: Females inherit 'infidelity gene' from their fathers
  (tags: genetics birds relationships)
• Jobcentres tricking people out of benefits to cut costs
  (tags: uk politics society jobs welfare)

Comments

[andrewducker]

The PR company for Duke Nukem has been sacked:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gamification/twitter-tantrum-sinks-duke-nukem-forever-pr-agency/472

[steer.livejournal.com]

The PR company has also apologised saying they got it wrong

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/pr-firm-threatens-publications-then-apologizes-over-duke-nukem-review-scores/3387/

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Good. The game was a pile of ass that I will never play again and feel ripped off for preordering. To threaten people for saying it was what it was is a disgrace.

[andrewducker]

Dude, that sucks. Sorry it was so bad - did you make it all the way through, or give up in disgust?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Completed it, but mainly out of morbid curiosity. Now I'm just warning others who might still hope it is as good as it's 14 year old prequel.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I think the juror case demonstrates that existing laws can cover social media, and that the panic about 'OMG twitter and facebook are outside the law! clamp down on them' is an overreaction. Here, existing contempt laws covered it perfectly. Good stuff.

And bloody hell, what a numpty.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Numpty doesn't begin to cover it. I've served on a jury and the one thing that is drummed into you repeatedly by the judge and the court officials is "you cannot discuss the case with anyone". Not even with your husband/wife/SO or anyone else when you go home at night. Had this woman discussed it with a friend down the pub it might be put down to stupidity, but to actively seek out the defendant on Facebook just about defies belief.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Nice as it would be to shave off about quarter of an hour from the journey time between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and maybe another five minutes off waiting times, I'd be much more excited to be able to get a train between the two cities after 11:30pm at all. I hope the consultation results in this becoming part of the plan...