Interesting Links for 06-02-2013

[andrewducker]

• Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity
  (tags: fame celebrity internet )
• The Lib-Dems just tried to kill secret courts, but were blocked by the DUP supporting the Conservatives
  (tags: law politics uk libdem )
• Diet, parental behavior and preschool can boost children's IQ
  (tags: children parenting intelligence )
• What living on benefits

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Now you know why I decided to hire a cleaning lady rather than clean the toilet myself.

[andrewducker]

To pass on the money?

[bart_calendar]

Yes. That's exactly what I meant.

Also, go Disney for green lighting "Episode Standalone: The Long Slow Painful Torturous Death Of Jar Jar Binks At The Hands Of A Hybrid Human Hyena Clone Army."

[philmophlegm]

"Also, go Disney for green lighting "Episode Standalone: The Long Slow Painful Torturous Death Of Jar Jar Binks At The Hands Of A Hybrid Human Hyena Clone Army.""

Funniest thing I've read all day.

[steer]

Doesn't the perfection of (most/many) modern actors also look out of place in modern productions?

[andrewducker]

A fair amount of the time, yeah.

I was looking at some of the actors (and particularly actresses) from BBC productions of thirty years ago, and many of them seemed to have much more ordinary bodies than nowadays. Much less emphasis on being very fit, for a start.

[steer]

It's hard to imagine Sean Connery being cast as an action hero these days.

[andrewducker]

Connery was a body-builder who did male modelling and was described (before his film career) as "too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis".

I'd certainly say he was as good looking (at the time) as Daniel Craig is now, if not as good looking as Pierce Brosnan.

[momentsmusicaux]

Oh good lord -- interactive reading? What's that? I just read the stories to her, AAARGH! :(

[andrewducker]

Where you read bits, she reads bits, and she learns to read with your help, I assume.

http://www.washington.edu/earlychildhood/articles/interactive-reading-helps-put-children-on-the-road-to-reading seems to back this up.

[bart_calendar]

On a serious note, I'm guessing that the housework/more sex stat really just means that in households with traditional gender lines, wives probably feel more obligated to have sex with their husbands even if they aren't into it (and are more likely to be in christian households where it is considered a duty) then women in progressive marriages where household chores are shared and sex is about intimacy and not obligation.

[del_c]

The comments on the living on benefits article were an ugly parade of people giving advice on how not to be unemployed.

Unemployers are responsible for unemployment. Strangely, a couple of the comments even mentioned a few companies who found it "hard" to find the perfect worker, and no one offered the unemployers advice on how to not have painful vacancies. No "lower your sights" or "why not take a risk?" or "you should do more networking" or "present yourself better" for them.