Interesting Links for 27-01-2012

[andrewducker]

• Depression makes it more likely you'll do overtime
  (tags: work depression psychology )
• Cars Kill Cities
  (tags: cars transport cities )
• Android and iPhone neck and neck in the US smartphone market
  (tags: iphone apple android mobile )
• Apple still dominates the tablet market, but Android narrows the gap
  (tags: apple android tablets

Comments

[bracknellexile]

"Of course, I'm still waiting for anything graphene related to make it into the shops."

Wasn't graphene first discovered from pencils? The graphite occasionally sheds graphene flakes as you write.

I think I may have found your product :)

[momentsmusicaux]

> Annouce that the minimum wage, full time, full year, is to be the new personal allowance. One changes, both change.

Lovely, but without numbers I'm clueless as to what this actually entails. How much is min wage p.a.?

[andrewducker]

52*37.5*6.08 = £11,856

[fyrie]

I was living on less than that for my first two years in Edinburgh. That was not a fun time.

[andrewducker]

Living on part time wages is never ever fun. You have my sympathy.

[nancylebov]

It looks more likely that people who do overtime get depression rather than the other way around.

"Cars kill cities" chooses an annoying example. (Is there a term for that rhetorical trick?) Instead of mentioning important errands which involve moving a substantial amount of mass (buying food, taking babies and toddlers anywhere), the example repeatedly given is picking up dry cleaning.

In re the hidden epidemic-- damned if I know. Sometimes real problems (agent orange, fibromyalgia) get ignored.

I'm not a geek, but the programming video was still pretty funny, even if I probably missed some of the fine points.

[andrewducker]

Buying food doesn't have to be a substantial amount of mass if you do it every few days rather than once every two weeks.

And yes, it looks like people who do overtime get depressed later. No proof of causation, but burnout is far too common.

[nancylebov]

I would say that's true about food if you're not buying for more than two people, aren't generally buying beverages, and aren't buying from anywhere far enough away that you want to consolidate shopping trips.

[andrewducker]

I'd saythat if your city contains houses far enough away that you can't do a shop every couple of days then it's badly designed.

[anton_p_nym]

re: Mail vs. Times... I would visit the NYT (or IHT, the international version) a lot more if they didn't cap ad-supported "free" access to a mere 20 articles a month. I ran out of "free" viewings last Friday, and won't get any more until next Tuesday... and I am certainly NOT subscribing for their "99¢ subscription" given that they are so cagey about what the subscription will cost after the promo expires. (And likely not even then, given how damned expensive they have been in the past given that you still see bloody ads

[andrewducker]

It's not about The Times not keeping its top spot, it's that The Mail is an appalling newspaper. If The Guardian or somesuch had taken top spot I'd be perfectly happy.

And Morgellon's Disease is clearly real - you must be part of The Conspiracy if you're denying it! Aieee!

[anton_p_nym]

Oh, I'm quite aware of the "Dail Fail"'s reputation... I'm guessing that the bulk of its traffic is celebrity gossip and surrepetitious photos of starlets in swimwear, with a side-order of fascist frothing. I was just pointing out that the NYT is at least in part the authour of its own woes.

-- Steve wishes he was part of The Conspiracy; his retirement fund could do with some top-up with Illumaniti money.

[philmophlegm]

"...it's that The Mail is an appalling newspaper. If The Guardian or somesuch had taken top spot I'd be perfectly happy."

As you'd imagine, I take the opposite view and would reverse the two newspapers in that statement!

[octopoid_horror]

You got the depression thing backwards. Your link up above says that people with depression are more likely to do overtime, but the actual article says that doing overtime can lead to depression.

Unless you were awkwardly phrasing a sentence where you meant "People with depression are likely to have done overtime", perhaps?

I was going to go "wait, are you talking about me?" if it was linking depression as a cause of staying at work for long hours rather than vice versa :-D

[andrewducker]

Naah, I was just being silly.