Interesting Links for 16-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• Praying in Paris streets outlawed
  (tags: Paris France religion law)
• Using A Giant Coin Makes Big Things Look Small
  (tags: optical_illusion photos)
• Escaped Pet Birds Are Teaching Wild Birds to Speak English
  (tags: birds language)
• What Martin Luther King actually did
  (tags: history politics usa racism civilrights)
• For kids with ADHD, regular 'green time' is linked to milder symptoms
  (tags: environment add children)
• Confusion as banker arrested for losing vast amount of money - I laughed
  (tags: funny banking)
• Chinese premier Wen Jiabao calls for more democracy
  (tags: china democracy)
• 5 Ways to Tell You're Getting Too Old for Video Games
  (tags: games gaming computers computer_games age old experience)
• Last Call for Delicious Users: Transfer Your Bookmarks to the new infrastructure before September 23rd
  (tags: delicious bookmarks)
• Do users change their settings? No, they do not.
  (tags: design microsoft usability ux settings)
• Another experiment which trains the immune system to kill cancer has positive results
  (tags: cancer immune_system medicine)
• Awesome origami. I particularly like the polar bear
  (tags: origami art photos)
• BT Tower becomes giant lightsabre tonight
  (tags: bt london starwars awesome)
• FBI teaching its agents that Islam is inherently violent.
  (tags: fbi usa islam)
• The Man Behind The Man You Wish You Could Be (Behind the Old Spice marketing)
  (tags: marketing OldSpice video socialnetworking)
• Bankers: an anthropological study
  (tags: banking people society anthropology london uk)

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Who is that article about Martin Luther King aimed at, out of curiosity?
Is there some kind of whitewash (excuse the pun) in the USA, since over here, I would say that what that article says is pretty much what people think about him?

Also, I don't agree with most of those five things about games, so I must still be "young" enough for games, woohoo!

[andrewducker]

I don't actually know much about MLK. I now know fractionally more.

And damn you, youngster!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The first photo on that big coin site is just like my old car!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Brilliant article about MLK.

And number one sign I'm not too old for video games: haven't made any of those complaitns. Suspect this actually means I haven't grown up.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

The giant coin is great. It's amazing how well that works! :)