Interesting Links for 08-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• Abu Qatada: out on bail, and rightfully so.
  (tags: terrorism uk law alquaeda AbuQata )
• How to stop Facebook or Google knowing too much about you.
  (tags: disinformation privacy google facebook )
• Breastfeeding women protest outside Facebook offices
  (tags: facebook breastfeeding )
• Fracture Putty can heal a broken bone in days
  (tags: stemcells medicine health )
• Reason #37 I'm glad I haven't bought Skyrim yet looks damn pretty.
  (tags: pretty computergames )
• Kitten tries to steal dog's tongue. Made of cuteness. More cute by same dog owner too.
  (tags: viaSkreidle video dog cat kittens cute )
• Why willpower matters – and how to get it
  (tags: psychology willpower )
• So what’s up with ACTA?
  (tags: law copyright )
• Why cancer is taking so long to cure, and what's being done about it now.
  (tags: research genetics medicine cancer )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I don't think it's smug to be happy about doing well, so long as you're grateful for it and don't take it for granted.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It's not so much being "smug to be happy about doing well" as being smug just to be happy. So many people I come across on livejournal are either unhappy or seem to enjoy being bitter. Some of them have very good reasons to be unhappy. Very, very good reasons. Others don't, and I'm sometimes tempted to show person A to person B and say "That's someone with a genuine reason to be unhappy. Think yourself lucky in comparison."

Of course I never do, partly because quite a lot of those person Bs may actually be person As who possibly don't have the nerve to say why they're truly unhappy.

I am happy, and I have good reason to be. I wonder how many other people are and what percentage of people who aren't are As, secret As or Bs.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

The other reason not to do that is because it is perfectly possible for people to be very aware of how lucky they are and yet still unhappy. Sometimes the only reason you need for being unhappy is your brain chemistry.

People who don't resist making comments like that are part of the reason why there are so many secret As. ETA: sorry, I think I may have got confused with your As and Bs, but you get the idea - when people feel their reasons for unhappiness are going to be compared to other peoples' that inhibits their sharing because most people are very aware that there are always other people worse off than themselves.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

All too true...