Interesting Links for 23-05-2012
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andrewducker- Could Angry Birds lead to mass murder? (and other tales of computer-game-inspired violence)
- Does alcohol cause 1 in 8 deaths before retirement? (No, no it does not)
- SpaceX ship has Scotty's ashes on board
- On road taxes, fat taxes and cigarette taxes
- Incredible realtime lighting demo in a browser. Pretty.
- What's going on with the UK's nuclear deterrent?
- MIT's Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing
- Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes
- An interesting input method for computers. Still going to suffer from the Gorilla-arm problem, but nice to see new approaches.
- Which TV shows have the highest body count?
- HS2 rail alternatives no solution
- TaxPayers’ Alliance: opponents of tax cuts suffer from “sexual jealousy”
- I Don't Respect Your Beliefs
- Mozilla Collusion - see who's tracking your movements across different web sites.
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Date: 2012-05-24 10:27 pm (UTC)Nine year old shaming school: I'm willing to bed if she was a US student she'd be penalized by the school system if not outright be kicked out and forced to change districts due to Zero Tolerance.
I Don't Respect Your Beliefs: I tend to see these things as more of an ideology problem, and stupid ideologies are in practically every power structure to control people. In addition I was never impressed with the film Dogma. Not because I'm a bitter ex-Catholic (well I am an ex-Catholic, but it was very religion-light), but it doesn't really challenge institutional structures.
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Date: 2012-05-25 07:51 am (UTC)And yes, as someone who can't eat much in the way of carbs because of blood sugar, fat taxes would be incredibly annoying.
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Date: 2012-05-23 11:44 am (UTC)Hitchhikers. Entire human race (less two) destroyed in first episode. Entire universe destroyed in subsequent episode.
Still going to suffer from the Gorilla-arm problem.
I am glad someone else still remembers this. When I was an undergraduate it was the canonical example of bad UI design which looks cool on paper. Seemingly half the world doesn't remember this -- or at least the half that designs UI in film and games. (I wince every time I watch Joker use the console in Mass Effect -- his arm is half suspended in the air all day and he has those brittle bones. He's got to be in agony by the end of shift.)
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Date: 2012-05-23 12:09 pm (UTC)I was playing Dance Central yesterday, and the menu selection method there is to wave your arm up and down to select an option and then swipe it across your body to select it. Fine for occasional use, but long menus start to ache pretty quickly.
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Date: 2012-05-23 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 06:39 pm (UTC)If you had a leap thing like that but on a surface angled at 45 degrees-ish in front of you, slightly higher than a normal keyboard would be, that might be more comfortable and hopefully not too sore on your neck.
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Date: 2012-05-23 12:25 pm (UTC)You probably don't see all the bodies on screen.
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Date: 2012-05-23 02:47 pm (UTC)but point also on the lack of connection between excess weight(bodyfat%) and health...
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Date: 2012-05-23 03:55 pm (UTC)It's a bit of a cheat to put two vampire shows in there isn't it?
So that's why Midsomer Murders never sold to the US. Couldn't stand the competition.
Angry Birds and murder
Date: 2012-05-23 04:45 pm (UTC)If Coronation Street can inspire I murder, then I guess anything can. However, I would have thought it Coronation Street would inspire murder.
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Date: 2012-05-23 06:27 pm (UTC)If you think people will buy your stuff because your bottles are made from awesum powah, by more than the amount that you'll lose through wastage, then you'll do it.
And then so will your competitors.
And then you'd look like an idiot if you went back to the old way.
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