Interesting Links for 07-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• The real reasons Boris won and Ken lost
  
  (tags: politics london )
  


• Timeline of the far future
  
  (tags: viaJWZ universe earth physics science )
  


• Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief
  
  (tags: thinking science religion )
  


• Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers (and frankly, anyone with a brain)
  
  (tags: BertrandRussell education philosophy teaching )
  


• A majority of voters still in favour of Proportional Representation
  
  (tags: uk voting pr )
  


• The Scale of the Universe (it's very big, and made of very small things)
  
  (tags: physics scale space astronomy science universe visualization )
  


• You've just been made minister for Awesome Fun Times. What do you do?
  
  (tags: life hedonism politics )
  


• The caramelized onions are a lie!
  
  (tags: food cooking onions )
  


• If the CIA has confirmed they tortured someone why does the BBC keep putting the word "alleged" before the word "torture"?
  
  (tags: torture bbc )
  


• I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets
  
  (tags: lottery gambling money statistics )
  


• lessons learned from an iPhone mugging
  
  (tags: iphone apple theft )
  


• The frequent fliers who flew too much.
  
  (tags: flight airplanes business usa )
  

Comments

[andrewducker]

How's that?

Not sure if something got messed up, but I just turned off the LJ autoformat. It looks the same on mine, but might look better on yours.

[zz]

fixed on mine now.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

That fixed it completely, yes.

[fub.livejournal.com]

Also: no tags?

[darkoshi]

It's still spaced apart more than usual on Dreamwidth, for me. No big deal, either way.

I was surprised by the indication in the mugging article that IPhones cost 700 pounds in the UK. That seems awfully much (says a person who's never even touched one)... But perhaps that corresponds to the most expensive one on the Apple site, which is $850 (64 GB, unlocked, contract-free).