Links for 2005-06-13
- The Technorati beta redesign is up and it's pretty fine. Classy work by Mr Derek Powazek as always It really does look like a quantum leap in apparent respectability and makes them look much more obviously professional. Nice logo too.
- Quite cute this - a seven year old who has seen all the Star Wars prequels watches the original for the first time "Why are red leader and gold leader the leaders? They don't know what they're doing..." Ah so wise, and so young...
- I can't believe it's true! Cats really do make men scruffier and women more attractive / slutty... Seems a bit unfair, really... So I'm so using this as the major excuse for not wearing my suit very often and getting a bit fat. Parents exposed me to cats at an early age.
- Bart talks about how much he wants children and how difficult he knows it's going to be for it to happen It's a post very close to my heart and one that I found quite surprisingly moving. I can't actually imagine anyone being a nicer parent than Bart...
- Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex - the original Larry Niven investigation of the physiological issues of Superman attempting to mate with a human Beautifully blunt. "Were they human sperm, they would be out of luck. But these tiny blind things are more powerful than a locomotive. A thickened cell wall won't stop them. They will all enter the egg, obliterating it entirely"
- Asynchronous slow-gaming on the front of your fridge with magnets (as described on Wonderland) Good idea for a family home - I wonder how you tell people who's turn it is.
- Where are Britain's Missing Bloggers? "If you start from the more obvious people, you rapidly end up going in circles around the same small and overlapping groups"
- A mobile tale of three cities "Spanish sociologist, is completing a study conducted for the Digital World Research Center at the University of Surrey in England of mobile phone users in London, Madrid and Paris to compare behavioral changes between cultures and over time..."
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
[Fridge Racer] You'd put the apparently-generic "your turn" marker next to the car whose turn it was, I suppose.
→ Posted by: Kevan at June 13, 2005 1:25 PM
Thanks, Tom!
→ Posted by: Derek Powazek at June 13, 2005 4:29 PM
[Missing Bloggers] This prompted a rather rambling post here from the point of view of a blogging non-geek that may or may not be of any interest to you...
→ Posted by: Hana Loftus at June 13, 2005 5:15 PM
[Fridge Racer] Yes, I'd imagine Kevan's right. I used to play chess on the fridge with a magnetised set until I lost a couple of pieces down the floorboards.
[Missing bloggers] There's certainly an argument there. But do British blogs have to follow the same curve as everywhere else?
→ Posted by: Bobbie at June 13, 2005 5:50 PM