Political Compass, Blogthings and The Hoff

Oh dear...
( Which Hoff are you? ?!? )

Done mostly because people that read tyrell may find it amusing. Yes, of course I rigged the result.

On to more sensible stuff. Redid the Political Compass today, it had been awhile. I've moved slightly to the centre economically, but further from the centre socially. I think the latter is me hardening my views through the debate I'm having online. The former is I suspect because the questions had a few more "market" questions and less "safety net" and "ownership" questions; market socialism messes up these tests, I had the same reaction to the OK Cupid thing as well. Anyway...

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26

Why do we care? Well I did it early this afternoon. Later this afternoon, I saw the latest release for blogthings. Now, do the Compass, then do the blogthing. Compass has been around fot years, do we see a rip-off? Yup, yes we do. Actionable? Not my problem, I merely observe.

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 30% Conservative, 70% Liberal

Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

( Coding issues on these tests )

Flags of the world, amusements and LJs...

The world's flags given letter grades - genius. Incredibly funny and so so true.

Also, BritBlog Roundup - once more, with added mapp goodness; wasn't going to, but the Phishing thing just needed a bit of promotion; any news on that yet Mark? From there, I find rhodri, who wrote one of the more amusing articles in the Indy recently, and that post gives a more lighthearted breakdown of the picture. Some of the comments on that thread are surreal, but this one (the nominated one) is even better. Taking the piss out of Innocent has to be done, even if we do love their overpriced products — I sometimes do copyrighting for work, and the question thing is deliberate; "do you?" is more effective at atention grabbing than "do this", although I insist on it being a more suggestion thing: "Spare room? Host students for..." (I forget the rest).

Have I mentioned I hate being ill? Yesterday, when I woke up I felt a little groggy, by the time I'd done the ablutions I knew I was coming down with summat. Nothing serious, just a head cold, but I fell all gummed up and Lemsip isn't helping :-(

Ah well. Oh; LJ client users — do any of them allow for a better editing of filter groups option than the web interface? It's a pain figuring out that interface and getting it right, want to sort my view filters and my post filters out to be a little more sane...