Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-25-2008

[matgb]

• Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7? | The Register
  It'll either be great or awful. But I do want to know who'll play Servalan.
  (tags: TV Blake's+7)
• Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer - Yahoo! News
  See, it is good for you: Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent ejaculation encourages the cancer-inducing fluids to \"flush out.\"
  (tags: sex research science masturbation)
• davegodfrey: Dial \"S\" for Steampunk
  Lunatic is modding his PC. Looks quite cool though
  (tags: computers modifications steampunk)
• Brian Paddick: Hope can conquer fear | The Guardian
  I keep telling people to never read the CiF comments, but I break my own rules every so often. Mines not published yet, but even so. I see no reason at all to not give Brian first pref if you live in London, he's definitely better than the other two fro
• publicansdecoy: Kang vs Kodos (London mayoralty electoral system)
  Linking and storing because a huge chunk of it is rewrites of discussions in the comments there involving me, it's a very good post and I want to reference it.
  (tags: london election mayoralty voting+systems)
• Stop Boris blog » The psephologistâ™s guide to stopping Boris
  An excellent examination of the London voting system and how to use it to stop Boris, equally applies if you stop Ken. The \"excellent\" bit may be related to the bits they've quoted from an \"expert psephologist\". I'm an expert. Weird.
  (tags: london voting+systems mayoralty election Boris+Johnson brian+paddick)
• Vincent Cable: Don't be fooled... the banks aren't victims of bad luck
  Vince on the banks and money markets. Looks like a sound analysis to me
  (tags: Vince+Cable banks Credit+crunch economics)
• The Yorksher Gob - London Mayoral Election
  Jennie writes the post I've been meaning to for ages about Brian and the voting system
  (tags: voting+systems london mayoralty election)
• American Book Review :: 100 Best First Lines from Novels
  Some good stuff in here, alongside the incredibly predictable. Two Cities should be much higher but you can't have everything
  (tags: books funny quotes)
• timjr: A Straight Geek Male's Guide to Interaction with Females
  Annoyingly, some of this stuff still needs to be said to some people (from Debi)
  (tags: social+mores behaviour equality)

Comments

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Chuckle. When I scroll over the link in my Friend's List and get the annoying SnapShots' popup, the advert beside the article is asking 'Should Hillary Quit?' There's endless paths you could go down with that one...

[matgb]

If they're showing on your friends page it means your LJ settings are allowing them, you can turn them off, but also if you click on the options on the top right of a snap, you can set a cookie to stop them working, or disable them in hosts.

Hate the damn things.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I hate them too, but the view can be added-value in that they offer a quick, non-NZ view of a page for me. For instance, the Hillary advert changed when I clicked through to that page.

Any idea how they work? As they might provide a way to look at pages without leaving any digital fingerprints. (Ignoring that SnapShot knows you rolled over the link.)

[matgb]

Snap crawl the web creating a cache similar to the way Google does, beyond that it's kinda smart technology that is really annoying as it breaks UI standards.

There are better ways of anonymising your browsing, and Snap are selling data all over the place.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

So they're maybe old pages showing up? Given you can run videos through them, I thought they may have been grabbed in real time. So probably not at all useful after all.