Interesting Links for 03-11-2013

[andrewducker]

• A great short film about bikes and childhood. Delightful _and_ impressive
  (tags: bicycles viaSkreidle video )
• Simon's cat vs the spider. I giggled all the way through. And now itch.
  I _wish_ that last time I had a cat, it had been this good with spiders.
  (tags: cats spiders funny video )
• Amazing car ad, full of optical illusions
  (tags: cars

Comments

[resonant]

I loved the article on clothing as signalling.

[andrewducker]

One of the things I love about IT is that I get to signal competence through non-conformity with "business dress" :->

[skington]

$WORK tried to push through a dress code a few years ago that would effectively ban wearing jeans and t-shirts. I objected to it on the grounds that was borderline constructive dismissal - if you're walking around a data centre wearing chinos and a shirt, you're not a real techie (either you're a bit weird, or you work for a company that doesn't respect you).

(Not that I'm ever in the data centre - I'm a programmer and I work from home - but the same sort of signalling rules apply.)

[andrewducker]

I currently work with 400-odd techies, all of whom are wearing shirts/smart trousers. And many of them are very good.

The idea that "real techies" don't wear business dress is just as bad as the idea that "real businessmen" don't wear jeans.

[cairmen]

FYI, the caffeine article talks about adrenal fatigue a lot - that's not as well-proven a concept as it sounds. I've heard smart people whose research abilities I respect claim it's basically snake oil - and other smart people claim it's absolutely true.

Worth noting that it was originally coined by a "chiropractor and naturopath", James Wilson.

Here's an interesting article on it presenting both points of view.

[andrewducker]

Cheers!

I don't know about adrenal fatigue, but I do know that when I stopped drinking coffee I had a four-day headache, and I have much better sleep, and fatigue, patterns nowadays.

Danny MacAskill - Imaginate

[skreidle]

Imaginate was impressive and certainly clever, but if you want to be blown away by his skill (and set to nice music, to boot), check out Way Back Home. :)

[daisyflip]

Re: having a cat which was no good with spiders. Having had the same cat, I can report that she once unwittingly sat on a spider. A spider which then sidled out from under her bum and went on his merry way while Denver stared at me, clearly wondering why I was pointing right behind her going YO HUNTER, LOOK OVER THERE.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I once deliberately put her in front of a spider, as it wandered across the floor.

She sat down and licked her paws, apparently completely oblivious to the tasty morsel right under her nose.