Interesting Links for 21-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• Stop giving your words away to social websites that treat them badly.
  (tags: web socialnetworking )
• Britian is actually on-track to have the fastest broadband in Europe
  (tags: broadband internet uk europe )
• I Fucking Google Everything (store information in my head? I'm using it for far more interesting things!)
  (tags: google knowledge

Comments

[steer]

'Jesus, What Is It Now?' Says Man Putting Down Swamp Thing Comic To Answer Phone Call From Wife

To be fair, that's a pretty good volume of Swamp Thing.

[channelpenguin]

Protein in semen acts on female brain to prompt ovulation: not at all surprised. My system can't be arsed to even pretend to be regular without a lot of contact with the stuff. Also does other stuff I am sure cos I also am far less happy (yes I have run [most of the] experiments to figure out if that's the factor).

[andrewducker]

There's definitely backup for that:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2457-semen-acts-as-an-antidepressant.html
and it doesn't surprise me at all!

[channelpenguin]

makes sense - given the mission of any creature is pretty much to breed, lack of the wherewithal shd really prompt some driver to change the situation.

[alitheapipkin]

This would explain why my cycle has got noticeably shorter since the Boy had the snip and we stopped bothering with condoms.

[theweaselking]

Ah, yes. Dude with a non-academic degree from a Missouri university starts by defining the results of his preferred behaviour as "good", then goes looking to see if the results of his preferred behaviour are more present in people who act the preferred way. He then publishes his results in a fake journal.

For bonus points: All his results are self-reported anyway, and he doesn't control for "increased delusion about the universe in general correlates to increased delusion about personal state", which is a far more likely explanation of his conclusions even IF you accept his premises.

ScienceDaily: You issue a press release, we stick it up on our unreadable website verbatim!

[alitheapipkin]

That last article is really good, it put into words what I've been thinking recently about our ludicrous attitudes to sexuality in this country in a way I've totally failed to. Also, the 'whisper it quietly, but I suspect most parents of school-children have had sex at least once in their lives' line made me roar with laughter :)