Back, but braindead, so Linkety-linkety

[moominmuppet]

And assemblage of links that've piled up in my inbox over the past week. I'm home, and cheerful but exhausted. Catching up on email now.

On 3D viewing not working for a substantial percentage of people -- several members of my family can't view them without insta-migraines. They don't mention it in the article, but I know there are others out there with the same problem, who are getting increasingly frustrated with the prevalence of 3D movies.

A good dissection of the "childhood obesity epidemic"

Skeptico on fraudulent "bomb detectors" being sold and used in Iraq

CBS is mighty selective in what counts under its "no advocacy ads" policy for Superbowl programming

More on the bullshit persecution against Tiller and his patients when he was alive (from the Kansas AG, no less)

Meta-analysis fails to find correlation between increased intake of saturated fats and cardiovascular disease

ethan_greer found a cool little app that'll turn your LJ into a book format

About legal protections, and lack thereof, at work (jajy1979, they go into MMPI testing, too)

Pseudo-science and Pseudo-sympathy in the Abortion and Breast Cancer Debate

Will Women's Medical Records End Up In the Hands of George Tiller's Killer? and A general roundup on the Roeder case

And I haven't checked it out yet, but apparently there's a geek dating site: http://www.gk2gk.com/ (actually, I know there are several others out there, too, but I hadn't seen this one before)

Simple cervical cancer test could save 100,000 women annually in rural and developing countries

Comments

[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

I knew about the Tebow ad. CBS isn't going to quash it either since it's just a "personal story". I don't watch the super bowl as it is, but that will ensure I don't watch. A lot of people in the sports world seem to think it's in poor taste at the very least.

Thanks for the links on Tiller's case and the work protections.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

CBS isn't going to quash it either since it's just a "personal story".

Is that their argument? Oh, good grief. *eyeroll*

[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It was the thrust of some editorial tripe that was running around either ESPN or Yahoo news as to why it was allowed.

BTW I'm hoping 3-D movies, and in particular 3-D television turn out to be duds in the long run. I know a lot of us who really can't watch them without either migraines or vertigo.

[cynic51.livejournal.com]

3D - I've gotten headaches from some 3D movies, but not others. One of my coworkers has some colorblindness going on, and he finds that the current crop of 3D movies is hit or miss for him; it's not on the red/green principle so sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

The folks I know who have problems with it can actually see the 3D, but it gives them migraines almost immediately. I know a decent number of folks that's true of, even outside my immediate family.

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

The LJBook thing is a good idea, but I wouldn't use it unless I could download it (and preferably inspect the code).

Right now it's a web site that requires you to enter your LJ username and password. You have no ideas what happens to them after then. It might well turn out the LJ book you want... and then hack your account a month later. No thanks.

One possible defense is to immediately change your password after it's done its work. But I'm not going to do that. And even then, you don't know what happens to the information in your LJ itself.
Sorry to be a wet blanket about this.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

No prob; I hadn't tried it myself (I use LJArchive), so I didn't realize it ran that way.