Interesting Links for 03-06-2013

[andrewducker]

• What's coming in the energy bill: Green jobs, cleaner energy, keeping the lights on and bills down
  (tags: politics uk energy )
• What is Happenning in Istanbul?
  (tags: police violence turkey democracy )
• Hulk Want You To Hit Hulk As Hard As You Can
  (tags: hulk FightClub )
• The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
  (tags: food )
• The 5 Ugly

Comments

[woodpijn]

That attention article is interesting and looks promising, but I'm not sure it generalises much beyond cricket. I don't know much about cricket but I don't think continuity is very important to it: you bat one ball as well as you can, and then that's history and you don't have to think about anything except the next one

[andrewducker]

I do find that taking regular breaks helps in coding, and also in meetings, where taking a few seconds off from paying intent attention is very helpful. Knowing when to take the breaks is a challenge, of course.

[nancylebov]

It's good to see your link collections again.

Chulo is a book about a year of amateur observation of coatimundis-- it's discovered that they have syntax. The order of words affects the meaning.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

And that's fascinating.

[woodpijn]

One for your links? Bakeries refuse to make cake for lesbian weddings, so local paper phones anonymously to see if they'll do cake for divorce parties, babies born out of wedlock, and pagan/Wiccan celebrations.

(Meta: do you have a preferred means of suggesting links other than in comments on previous link posts?)

[andrewducker]

Thank you. And you can leave comments here, or email me (my contact detail is in my userinfo!)

[drdoug]

"What's coming in the energy bill: Green jobs, cleaner energy, keeping the lights on and bills down

[simont]

How to manage your attention so you can focus better on long tasks

I think it's a contractual requirement that somebody has to respond "TL;DR". :-)