Interesting Links for 09-01-2012

[andrewducker]

• Will shareholders crack down on executive pay? (No, probably not)
  (tags: business pay uk )
• Why clothes look so much better on celebrities than they do on you.
  (tags: fashion clothes )
• EA Invokes First Amendment Protection for Video Games in Trademark Dispute with Helicopter Maker
  (tags: trademark videogames freespeech usa )
• The evil plot behind Star Wars: The Old Republic
  (tags: starwars funny comic )
• A short piece on genes and intelligence
  (tags: genes Intelligence )
• Children are not as swayed by language as adults are
  Works for me - it took decades for me to realise that certain common phrases were actually descriptive, rather than semi-random sounds used as a reference.
  (tags: language children )
• Plunging A330 fixed by turning it off and on again.
  (tags: planes software technology )

Comments

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

my own observation (by comparing 10-yr old clothes with new where they both still fit) is that street sizes have got BIGGER for the same 'dress size' number. So I am confused... (I am talking in the 8,10,12 range)

That matches my observations exactly.

Maybe the small sizes have got bigger and the big sizes have got smaller?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

that's what I was thinking...