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

[innerbrat]

Well done!

The first lines strike me more as 100 really good novels famous for their first lines and/or opening imagery - because, for example, It was love at first sight isn't so much a noticeably fantastic line.

And where the Hell was Day of the Triffids?

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Why thank you...

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7?

Oh dear. Just the fact that it's a Sky One production is setting off alarms in my brain. It should be The Beeb, if anyone.

Still, I might tune in if they get someone as hot as Jacqeline Pearce to play Serve-a-flan. :)

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

American Book Review :: 100 Best First Lines from Novels

Yay for there being a bit of Kurt Vonnegut, but boooo for there being no Raymond Chandler or Hunter S Thompson! :(

[misscoollinda.livejournal.com]

I heard about the masturbation/prostate link on Dan Savage's podcast this week. Has the church denied it yet? Any benefits to be found from female masturbation?

[srk1.livejournal.com]

I think the LDs could have done better than Paddick. By comparison with Ken, and even with Boris, he just comes across as an incredible lightweight. He'd probably excel on a borough council, but that's about it.

(Not that I wouldn't vote for him if I was a Londoner, hem hem.)