Interesting Links for 30-06-2014

[andrewducker]

• Facebook manipulated users' moods in secret experiment to show bad moods spread
  (tags: psychology manipulation emotion Facebook )
• 'Bad' video game behavior increases players' moral sensitivity: May lead to pro-social behavior in real world
  (tags: games behaviour psychology morals )
• Cliff Slip and Slide! 50 Feet! In 4K! (Looks like way too much fun)
  (tags: fun water video )
• Using average height as a proxy for poverty tells you something about the USA
  (tags: height poverty USA visualisation )
• Microsoft's "Open" document formats are incompatible with both other implementations and themselves
  (tags: Microsoft formats opensource )
• Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels
  (tags: drugs crime legalisation Mexico usa viafanf )
• 7 bogus grammar 'errors' you don't need to worry about
  (tags: grammar language errors viaSkreidle )
• Android Wear smartwatches make Google Glass obsolete
  (tags: Google watches googleglass android )
• The Irish Times keeps getting the facts wrong on the baby burial case
  (tags: ireland reporting babies )
• Conservatives plan to merge NI and Income Tax
  (tags: tax uk conservatives )

Comments

[matgb]

Conservatives plan to merge NI and Income Tax
(tags: tax uk conservatives )

*cough* Tories finally persuaded to consider what the LDs have been pushing for for years and was announced as something to be planned for but not necessarily implemented this Parliament in either Osborne's 1st or 2nd budget...

I know the Indytab's given up on being a paper of record but there's no need to still give all the credit for good ideas to the Tories (because partially if it is merged and the tax threshold goes up again then immediate Living Wage with no fussing around).

[andrewducker]

For some reason I'd completely forgotten that it was Lib-Dem policy!

[dalglir]

I agree with the android wear article. A properly featured smartwatch (i.e. two-way audio and integration with voice commands) does have many of the advantages of Glass but without any of the more serious disadvantages. Android Wear looks very cool and, being android, there shouldn't be much to stop users also making it look like a pipboy 3000. That alone is almost enough to make me jump ship from Apple.

(I was in dialogue with Kreyos earlier this week and have resurrected my original order for a Meteor smartwatch)

[andrewducker]

Oooh, I'll look forward to your review.

I'm still pretty happy with my Pebble, but it's clearly version one of something that's going to keep getting better over time.