Interesting Links for 26-08-2014

[andrewducker]

• What Should a 4 Year Old Know?
  (tags: children parenting )
• Somebody stop me before I spend a fortune on awesome light bulbs!
  (tags: lighting technology )
• Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin as a Health Issue
  (tags: drugs heroin USA )
• No, Rhode Island Didn't 'Accidentally' Decriminalize Prostitution
  (tags: prostitution sexwork USA law

Comments

[bart_calendar]

So now Gawker, Jezebel, Buzzfied, Clickhole and Vice will simply have to pay money to Facebook to get people to see their clickbait links.

[andrewducker]

By making them into adverts?

If they find that they can do that profitably, they should go for it. Good luck to them :->

I'd be happy if they just had a headline that told you WTF you were going to see!

[bart_calendar]

They won't make them adverts. They'll just exclude them from the ban when people post them on their timelines. All for a decent fee, I'm sure.

[andrewducker]

Fingers crossed.

Glad you liked the Love article. I didn't really see the point of the person who was jumping up and down on Twitter. And was at lunch, so missed the discussion as it happened.

[alitheapipkin]

Someone was jumping up and down about it? Please tell me because they were miffed about it slagging off John Lennon and not because they disagreed with the point!

[andrewducker]

Sadly not.

They are actually largely agreeing with the article, but objecting to the word "Love" being used to describe what 99% of people mean by the word "Love".

[pashazade]

I like the Love Is Not Enough post enormously.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard was in the vicar's sermon at my friend's wedding. He said "When we think of the promise to love someone for as long as you both shall live, we think of it wrongly. We think of love as being only an emotion - how can you promise to always feel an emotion? It's not under your control, and you *won't* always feel it, no matter how much you would like to. In the original Greek, love is not only an emotion but an action. Love is something you *do*, and *that* is what you promise."

[alitheapipkin]

That is a well made point.

The Boy and I wrote our own vows and all our promises were about how we would behave- no-one can expect to keep promises about how they will feel, emotions are fickle things.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. I've promised to do things for Julie, and we've had discussions about how to deal with long-term emotional changes.

[resonant]

I like the idea of wireless actuators that use pizeoelectric energy rather than batteries!

[andrewducker]

Me too! I think it's an awesome idea - I hope it catches on.

4 year olds and school readiness

[woodpijn]

We have an intelligent, introverted 4yo who is looking forward to starting school next month, but anxious that she'll be expected to play with other children all the time. She was greatly reassured when I said it won't be all playing, there'll probably be some sitting down doing worksheets as well.

Re: 4 year olds and school readiness

[andrewducker]

School - something for everyone!

But yes, hopefully they'll cope ok with an introvert.