Alcohol, Govt waste, the future, an Emo scientist and some fun

[matgb]

• Living in the future - May Contain Nuts
  Andrew Ducker asks: When did you start feeling like you were living in the future? And if you don't - what would make you?
  (tags: questions speculation progress)
• Pickled Politics » Know your limits
  The Govts Know Your Limits campaign, all £10million of it, is both a misplaced use of our money and based on dubious medical evidence. And because most light drinkers can see it's bollocks, the core message gets ignored
  (tags: alcohol campaigns)
• Drink limits "useless" - Times Online
  and here's some of the evidence that says the unit limit per week is bollocks. By Govt targets, I'm a binge drinker on a quiet week FFS, and I'm mostly sober.
  (tags: alcohol research)
• Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
  Heh. Mozilla has decided to try to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours when they release Fx3. Can their download network handle it? Anyone got any odds?
  (tags: internet firefox mozilla)
• spEak You're bRanes » The Twat-O-Tron
  Genius. Who needs a commentbot when you can click on this for hours.
  (tags: BBC funny Humour)
• The 25 Skills Every Mother Should Know - Scarlet Demon
  I'm thinking it should likely be 'parent' there, some of them I've skipped, and soe I'm learning. Still not got my head around the tantrums thing...
  (tags: parenthood kids)
• BBC NEWS | Rock cult or nice kids that do their homework?
  Can someone please explain to me how emo isn't a branch of goth? It grew out of punk and is all about dressing up dark and angsty while convinced the world hates you.
  (tags: goth music culture)
• davegodfrey: Oh Metro! Part Whatever...
  Dave geeks out abou 'a group of pterosaurs called Azdarchids' and the edia coverage of some research. As usual, the media get it all wrong, except, um, The Sun. How does that work?
  (tags: science media research)
• This is the chance to go down with all guns blazing - Johann Hari, The Independent
  Brown's going to lose the next General Election. Pretty much guaranteed unless he stops playing at politics and starts doing stuff. I went off Hari completely for awhile, has he grown up and smelt the coffee or is it a blip?
  (tags: Labour politics)
• theweaselking: Dear John:
  Conclusive proof I've been working alongside real IT geeks too long—I almost understand most of this.
  (tags: d'oh! friends)

Comments

[staceyuk.livejournal.com]

*giggles at the 25 skills thing* When is Download Day? I've been waiting for Firefox 3 to be officially released.

[matgb]

Not announced yet, they're still finalising the code. I'm hoping the rest of my extensions'll come back up soon as well.

[andrewducker]

Hari's piece on Mary Whitehouse a couple of days ago was also good.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

That whole "emo" article is just a toe-curling embarrassment.

I never really understood the "goth=miserable" thing, either. Most goths I know/knew were no more miserable than the average person, they just wore more black clothes. Ditto emo; it's just another youth tribe, isn't it? It's not some bizarre cult - I don't really understand the interest in it. Thankfully most comments seem to agree.

If we're going to generalise, I've found nu-metal kidz to be more angsty than the emo kids. One wonders why the BBC hasn't done an article on them. Perhaps it's easier to hear the lyrics to a My Chemical Romance tune than a Slipknot one?

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

spEak You're bRanes! Oh, I haven't read that in ages. It's just terrifying, isn't it...

If you want to know about living in the future, the answers are here: The Usbourne Book of the Future. It's a work of genius. What I love about it and the two "World of Tomorrow" books on the same site is the lovely balance between predictions that are almost accurate and ones that are totally batshit. Good reading. :)

[matgb]

Aye, Jennie linked, he'd been really annoying me over a lot of stuff a few years back, so I stopped paying attention (partially as I stopped buying papers).

Nice to see he's caught up and back on track to actual sanity.

[andrewducker]

I think I stopped reading him when he started claiming that hating Big Brother made you anti-working class...

[matgb]

Possibly because nu-metal was less organised being mostly a past fad, emo has t'internet to be angsty over in an accessible way.

I bet that march they're talking about was organised on Facebook.

Oh yeah—I took a non-goth friend to a goth club once and he was amased to see people he knew from campus as grumpy aloof morose miserable gits being all smiley and happy, the miserable act is a persona around 'normals' for the most part.

[matgb]

Genius. Danke.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

"...dolphins, the sheepdogs of the underwater world".

I do love the fact that all the vehicles look like something out of Thunderbirds.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Emo kids take themselves far too seriously. Of course, so do a lot of goths.

THEY SHALL BE MOCKED EQUALLY MWHAHAHA

Actually, the whole emo thing bugs me a lot more because of the whole "cutting" fad. A lot of people start to then think that all people who self harm are doing it for positive attention. LOOK- I MADE A HEART ON MY ARM AND POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AREN'T I SPECIAL??

*collapses from blood loss*

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

Organised? A march on the Daily Mail's offices on a SATURDAY? When the only people present work for the Mail on Sunday? Not particularly well-thought through... so yeah, it probably did originate on Facebook.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

Well, don't a lot of people who self-harm actually not do it for attention, but actually for the 'release' they feel it gives them? I've never understood why anyone would want to cut themselves, getting a papercut hurts me plenty, but I do understand that sometimes people use it as a last resort sort of measure. My best friend self-harms periodically, and I wish there was a way I could help her not to. There just isn't, unfortunately.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

RE: Firefox

How cool is the map on there, by the way? 17 people in Lesotho and Papua New Guinea, 16,362 in Germany compared to Russia's 11,115! The maths!geek in me is trying to burst out and make graphs.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

You're talking to someone who self harmed a lot. I always hid it, and yes I did it for the "release."

Emo kids do it for attention.

[matgb]

The maths!geek in me is trying to burst out and make graphs.

Do it...