Mario Kart in JavaScript! If this is even 1% as good as the N64 version I won’t be emerging from my bedroom for a long, long, time.
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NI Health Chief: Homosexuality is a Mental Illness
Homosexuality is a mental illness, according to the head of Northern Ireland’s health committee, Iris Robinson MP. Can we say ‘forced resignation’?
After apparently branding homosexuality as “disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, wicked and vile” she went on to recommend […] “a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals”.
So what is this research Miller [the ‘lovely psychiatrist’] talks about? A randomised controlled trial from the peer-review medical literature? A meta-analysis of past treatment programmes? Perhaps just an exploratory outcome study?
No, it’s a book released by a Christian publisher and written by a psychologist and psychiatrist employed by a private evangelical college in the States.
An extremely depressing read, worth your time to find how much deeper Mrs. Robinson digs her hole. Especially when she likens homosexuals to murderers. You’ll be pleased to know she’s now being investigated for hate crimes.
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Peak or Trough – You Are a Start-Up
Are you on a peak or in a trough? Looking for a kick-start? Then you can do worse than reading, absorbing, and taking to heart Ryan Holiday‘s article, This is My Life:
[Look at developing yourself] like a start up. You are a start up. Don’t worry about monetization. Or a safety net or health insurance or an office. Aim for critical mass and pick up support wherever you can. Woo every customer. Find something that no one else does and do it better than they ever can. Invest in yourself. Sweat equity. What are you doing? Do you love it? Start ups run on love. Read the books. Look for the angel investors. Have an exit strategy.
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Three of the Best Movie Reviews. Ever.
Peter Bradshaw on The Hulk (in Hulk-speak, no less)
“Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment.
Christopher Orr’s review of The Happening (a list of spoilers so that you can mock the film without having seen it.)
The Happening is not merely bad. […] It’s the kind of movie you want to laugh about with friends, swapping favorite moments of inanity: “Do you remember the part when Mark Wahlberg … ?” “God, yes. And what about that scene where the wind … ?”
The problem, of course, is that to have such a conversation, you’d normally have to see the movie, which I believe is an unreasonably high price to pay just to make fun of it. So rather than write a conventional review explaining why you should or shouldn’t see The Happening (trust me, you shouldn’t), I’m offering an alternative: A dozen and a half of the most mind-bendingly ridiculous elements of the film, which will enable you to marvel at its anti-genius without sacrificing (and I don’t use that term lightly) 90 minutes of your life.
Mark Kermode on Pirates of the Caribbean 3
No words can prepare you for this priceless 10-minute rant by Kermode. My favourite review ever, given the accolade due to Kermode’s renaming of two of the stars: Ikea Shitely and Orloondo Bland.
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My Ideal Parenting Model
When Mom and Dad Share It All is a New York Times cover story on gender and parenting. A great story with greater insights, this paragraph sums up how I hope my future would be:
They would create their own model, one in which they were parenting partners. Equals and peers. They would work equal hours, spend equal time with their children, take equal responsibility for their home. Neither would be the keeper of the mental to-do lists; neither of their careers would take precedence. Both would be equally likely to plan a birthday party or know that the car needs oil or miss work for a sick child or remember (without prompting) to stop at the store for diapers and milk. They understood that this would mean recalibrating their career ambitions, and probably their income.
It doesn’t sound easy, and in reality it’s harder again.
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Don’t Follow Your Passion – Fix Your Lifestyle
A novel take on the typical inspirational graduation speech. It’s not about following your passion or not taking yourself too seriously. They’re important, but this is different.
The idea is to not think of your ideal job, but to think of your ideal lifestyle. To think of it in detail down to minute details of how you want to live your life. Only from there can you begin to construct your career goals – aiming not for that ideal job but aiming for that ideal lifestyle.
After all, isn’t that what you’re really after?
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The Big Picture – Again!
Boston.com’s The Big Picture (“News Stories in Photographs”) must be the most linked-to current affairs/photography ‘blog’ in the past week.
There’s a reason for this – it’s amazing.