Interesting Links for 07-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• Unlock Democracy responds to government abandonment of Lords reform
  (tags: houseoflords politics EpicFail )
• West Port Book Festival - Edinburgh's independent bookseller's festival - needs your help!
  (tags: money edinburgh books )
• Prometheus: Calvinball Mythology and the Void of Meaning
  (tags: meaning movies prometheus myth )
• Neat post from a

Comments

[artkouros]

This makes my pupils dilate.

[andrewducker]

Geek!

[xenophanean]

Excellent, someone who agrees with me about what Prometheus was about :)

[bart_calendar]

How soon until sketchy Internet marketers start offering via spam and sketchy websites Pupil Reading Pens and/or Pupil Reading Sunglasses that insecure women can bring with them on dates to "Ensure Your Potential Love Is Playing For Your Team!"

[marrog]

Interesting that you would assume women would want that. I've frequently heard the trope of a guy going "Lezzer" to a girl who isn't into him. I rarely hear of women thinking a dude who doesn't like her is gay. Stereotypally she's more likely to think it's because she's too fat or unattractive. Traditionally women look inward for reasons a man doesn't like them, and men look outwards, not the other way around.

[bart_calendar]

Oh, with straight women it wouldn't be that she was worried about a guy who doesn't like her.

It would be for straight women who are worried that the guy they are dating is a closet gay - and I've had friends worry about that all the time. (Hence why Cosmo does at least one quiz a year on "How To Find Out If Your Man Is Gay" and 17 Magazine does at least one quiz a year on "How To Find Out If Your Crush Is Gay.")

Now, I don't think sane women would want such a device but there are enough insecure women who worry about/over analyze everything about their dates and crushes that there would be a market to support it.

If You google "How To Tell If Your Guy Is" Google will automatically put in "gay" as the last word and then give you this wealth of results.http://www.google.com/

[drdoug]

Remember that Google varies results per person.

Just now I got "how to tell if your guy is cheating". Gay was there but down the list.

Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to seen a

[cartesiandaemon]

For that matter, what's bad about driving your child round if they enjoy it? It's a bit profligate to use a car for that, but if that's what puts a child to sleep, it doesn't seem to be a problem with the child or the parent, just a problem that no-one's made sufficiently convenient and safe warm+rocking cribs.

Re: Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to se

[channelpenguin]

Same principle as rocking - early stage motion sickness induces drowsiness. I'd just be worried about sleep-deprived parents driving around in the middle of the night!

Of course none of this would be an issue without the silly (7,8)9-5(6, 7 whenever) 5(6,7) days a week treadmill-working-culture that doesn't allow time for naps for people of ALL ages.

Also "sleeping through" is not essential, waking up a for a bit one or more times is a normal, natural variant for all ages of people, and this used to be known. I've personally never slept more than 6 continuous hours in my life and that has only happened about twice. More usually I wake up every few hours (can be more often) sometimes for seconds, sometimes for a few minute - half an hour, sometimes [far less often] for hours...

Re: Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to se

[andrewducker]

Indeed! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

I sometimes wonder if society is adapted for one small group of people whose genes work one way, and think that everyone else would work the same way, if they just tried harder.

Re: Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to se

[redshira]

Well, that seems to be how it works with regard to fatness and sleeping patterns which fall into the awake-in-the-early-morning slot.

[nancylebov]

I think there's a difference between fan favorites which are long extended stories (Firefly?) and those which promise to offer deep truths. Offhand, it does seem as though the deep truth style is more popular, though.

Offhand, I'm finding it easier to think of mythologies than sagas. Suggestions?

(Afaik, sagas include both tales of the gods and realistic multi-generational family stories.)