Interesting Links for 12-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• How Daleks scare their young.
  (tags: comic funny DrWho daleks )
• Nick Clegg calls bigots bigots, sadly then retracts statement.
  (tags: nickclegg lgbt bigotry )
• Four Years of Edits 2008-2011 on Open Streetmap. I wonder if it will ever take over.
  (tags: viaFanf visualization history maps video )
• Playing "Find the Lady" with transparent cups. Damned

Comments

Magic is Turing Complete

[alextfish]

Oh yay, it made it onto your links! I've heard from friends of the effect when something you made romps around the internet and ends up being linked by one of your friends; now I get to experience it myself :)

Some of the best discussion of my Magic Turing machine is on the Reddit-MTG discussion thread.

It's amusing seeing the character of the discussion on various forums. Slashdot is mostly bored and critical with one or two gems, Google+ mostly forward or +1 the link with minimal comment, the link sunk without trace on YCombinator, 4Chan's Traditional Games board are impressed and then get sidetracked to another MtG creation of mine, and Reddit-Compsci are predictably intellectual about it :)

[supergee]

I am so glad there was no Internet when I was doing acid.

[andrewducker]

Livetweeting it obviously seems like a silly idea.

But having access to all sorts of knowledge about it is handy for a lot of people!

[a_pawson]

I'm curious to know what waste is being burned. Our local council now provides us with a recycling bin, into which we can put paper, cardboard, glass, metals & plastics. Since they started collecting mixed plastics, it astonishes me how little actually goes into the waste bin. It gets emptied every fortnight, but is rarely more than 1/8th full, and all that really goes in there is plastic film and kitchen waste.

[brixtonbrood]

Disposable nappies are the big one. Cat litter can be significant. In much of the UK Tetrapaks are a big contributor to household waste but I assume the Swedes recycle them more widely than we do.

In my house we mostly bin thin plastic film, lids, the pouches from the cats' food and cooked left overs that can't go in the compost.

[inamac]

Cat litter is the main thing in our household - which is annoying as it's supposed to be bio-degradable and could go in with the green waste if properly riddled.

[philmophlegm]

Flushable cat litter is the way to go - although you do have to be careful not to do too much in one go!

[hirez]

The LSD story(fy) is a lovely thing.

[steer]

Cohort life expectancy is the best model you can have if you don't want to include "prediction". However, it is, as pointed out, likely an underestimate. Death rates for young people are incredibly low however

[andrewducker]

Aaah, now that _is_ interesting. I had no idea that a lot of the "oldest person" records had been debunked, and thought that therefore the oldest age was relatively stable at 115-ish. Thanks!

[steer]

Contrast this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_verified_supercentenarians_who_died_before_1980

With these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_men

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_women

The oldest person on the "oldest women who died before 1980" list is 113 and 214 days. She does not make the list of 100 oldest women ever.

The extensions seem obvious to me. Of course part of this is population growth and part record keeping (for the verification part).

[andrewducker]

That is interesting. Clearly there's a big leap going on there. I wonder if something specific happened in the early 80s!