Interesting Links for 04-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• There's a "Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers" article in the Daily Mail. For once you _should_ read the comments!
  (tags: DailyMail politics intelligence )
• How Republican opposition derailed SOPA and Protect IP
  (tags: politics republicans copyright usa )
• An interview with Nick Clegg
  (tags: nickclegg politics uk libdem )
• Porn for Pregnant Ladies
  (tags: porn pregnancy funny )
• The first page of H.G. Wells’s version of Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds
  (tags: funny HGWells WarOfTheWorlds )
• A sudden realisation as to why the Republican party hate gay people.
  (tags: funny politics usa republicans lgbt )
• Darkness, a gorgeous, funny and thoughtful comic (done in 24 hours too!)
  (tags: storytelling darkness relationships comics )
• Less than six months until the Europe IPV4 address pool runs out
  (tags: networking ipv4 ipv6 )
• A patent attorney's guide to why Apple are in trouble in Germany
  (tags: motorola motor apple germany patents )
• Clearly we need new punctuation
  (tags: comic dinosaurs punctuation language )
• GMs dicuss what the nerdiest thing theyve ever written into a game design is.
  (tags: roleplaying geekery )
• Ducker's 7th law - ask the hardest, nerdiest question you can think of and someone will instantly answer.
  (tags: trivia geekery scifi )
• Why You Won't Quit Your Job
  I went through three different jobs where everyone complained, and eventually I left to get a better job, with people saying they'd be right behind me. A couple of years later I'd bump into someone and they were still in the job they hated, complaining all the time, and not doing anything about it.
  (tags: conditioning life work )

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Reference to the original paper for the Daily Mail link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22222219

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

As you know, I'm really very right-wing. I must have got very lucky with all the exams I managed to pass over the years.

Presumably with right-wingers being gormless plebs and all, and left-wingers being super-intelligent high-achievers, rich and successful people would tend to vote for left-wing parties while the right-wing parties would depend for their votes on unintelligent menial workers...

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

That bit about why the Republican party hates gay people may be repurposing an old joke about a bet between Hitler and Stalin about who could kill the most Russians.

Here's a hard geeky question: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/3569008.html

What was that novel that featured the brawny normal humans rebelling against their brainy kids?

Slight clue-- it was probably written before the nineties.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

The geekiest thing I ever wrote into a role-play adventure was probably setting one D&D adventure in an illusionist's lair: a maze with invisible walls (it looked like a giant cave, until you walked into "solid air") that led to a portal that took you into the trans-dimensional donjon that was (unbeknownst to the adventurers) actually in the form of a four-dimensional hypercube...

-- Steve doesn't think the party ever really caught on to the last bit; their hand-drawn maps of the place were quite bizzare.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Red-Headed Stranger, a different take on Darkness from a rather more practical point of view.

It reminds me of the bit from MacAvoy's The Gray Horse about the Irish thinking the English are insane for preferring "spirited" horses.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Why I won't quit my job... yeah, well, personally I think it'd be totally bonkers of my to quit a job that pays money and isn't actually driving me mad unless I *had another job*; and mostly I'm too lazy to find one. Besides, I hate changing my routine and changing job would be really stressful; probably a lot more stressful than even a bad job (and this is a good job).